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B. stellatus KelL, has been described as having very small 

 flowers, entire leaves and a stellate (whence the name) pu- 

 bescence. The specimen from which the description was 

 drawn was badly dried and its characters obscured, but 

 another brought since from the original locality shows 

 that the leaves are dentate and the flowers of the ordinary 

 size and form. The stellate pubescence is probably derived 

 from some neighboring plant, being loosely involved in the 

 tomentum and having no apparent connection with its host. 



D. arachnoideus , in specimens brought by Mr. Brandegee 

 from Santa Cruz Island, is often nearly destitute of the 

 "cobwebby" hairs. The flowers are salmon-colored and of 

 the general form of latiflorus and longifolius. 



D. parvijlorus is a mere form of var. puniceus. 



§ MiMULASTRUM Gray. 



This section of only two species is separable from Euna- 

 nus only by the peculiar corolla. If the capsule of 31. Mo- 

 havensis J-ievamon, proves to be as variable as Dr. Gray, Sup. 

 Syn. Flora, 444, notes M. lati/olius to be, the second spe- 

 cies, 31. pictiis, will, as I have always suspected, be but a 

 variety of it. The capsule of the latter is almost exactly 

 that of 31. gltdinosus. 



§ ffiNOE Gray. 



If this section be maintained it must be on the form of 

 the corolla alone, the capsular characters being too difl'er- 

 ent. Mature fruiting specimens of 31. tricolor and Douglasii 

 are still too little known to determine their dehiscence with 

 certainty, although from their structure it is probably like 

 latifolius. 



M. ANGUSTATUS (Greeue.) Eiinanus angustaius Greene — 

 All credit for the discrimination of this species belongs to 

 Dr. Kellogg, who described it under the name i¥". Clarldi, 



2d Ser. Vol. I. (18) Issued December 11, 1888. 



