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194 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
from Texas, Palmer 104 and 164 from Mexico, Berlandier 781 
from Mexico, and Stevens 330 from Oklahoma. In some of these 
specimens, it was difficult to decide whether the plants belonged 
to the species or to the variety, so closely were they associated. 
The specimens of Mr. and Mrs. T. S. Brandegee from Reno, 
Nevada, are worthy of special mention in that the upper parts are 
decidedly viscid-pubescent. Mrs. Brandegee says that plants 
with an occasional sterile fifth filament were found among the 
specimens in this collection. f. 
25b. Var. parviflorus (Lindl.) Grant, comb. nov. 
M. parviflorus Lindl. Bot. Reg. pl. 874. 1825; Trans. Hort. 
Soc. London 6: 294. 1826; Benth. Seroph. Ind. 28. 1835; DC. 
Prodr. 10:371. 1846; Clos in C. Gay, Hist. Chile 5:141. 1849. 
M. propinquus Lindl. Bot. Reg. pl. 1330. 1830; Hook. Fl. Bor. 
Am. 2:99. 1840; Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10: 371. 1846. 
M. luteus var. micranthus Phil. in Linnaea 29: 28. 1857-58; 
Reiche, Fl. Chile 6: 60. 1911. : 
M. Kingii Phil. in Anal. Univ. Chile 43: 528. 1873; Reiche, 
Fl. Chile 61: 61. 1911. 
Creeping or procumbent annuals, freely rooting at the lower 
nodes, more or less pubescent above; stems terete; leaves broadly 
ovate, base subcordate or nearly truncate, lower leaves tapering to 
margined petioles, upper leaves sessile; calyx-teeth short, trian- 
gular-acute, upper at least twice as long as the others; corolla 
tubular, usually less than twice the length of the calyx, throat 
dotted with red. i 
Distribution: in wet places in Chile and Argentine Republic. 
Specimens scarce in American herbaria. 
Specimens examined: 
South America: : 
Chile: Province de Chile, without date, C. Gay (G); near Santi- 
ago, 1899, Najarre (Cornell) ; Valparaiso, without date, Mertens 
= ; Desert of Atacama, Sept.—Oct., 1890, Morong 1213 (G and 
Phil.). | ; 
Argentine Republie: Andes of Mendoza, without date, Gillies 
(G); Uspallata near Mendoza, 1825, Gillies (G). 
The original description and plate of M. parviflorus correspond 
