f 26 j 108 
lia aaerohoee. 41 with fine red, and ZL. pectinata, 42 with blue flowers 
ana the most curious plants collected here is also to be mentioned 
Eriogonum,*? with inflated clavate Parent and dark red POWER 
PRieckes bilobatus,** is ae interesting plant 
4 
x 
naked above, pitts filiform, lower Ones much longer than the flower, 
which i is 15 to 18 lines in length; bright scarlet or crimson. Next to P, 
imberbis, Steud., but easily distinguished. 
41 Lobelia a, n. sp., perennis, caule simplici erecto, glabro, infra 
folioso, supra nudo; foliis lineari- lanceolatis, elongatis, acuminatis, argute 
denticulatis ; floribus laxe spicatis ; bracteis linearibu s gla nduloso- dentatis, 
inferioribus pedice llum superantibus, superioribus eum aequantibus; caly- 
cibus hemisphaericis et pedicellis hirtis; lobis calycis subulatis tubum 
duplo superantibus, tubum corollae dimidium aequantibus ; lobis corollae 
| Superioribus la anceol:.tis, inferrioribus ovatis nuecronatis. 
Cosihuiriachi along rivulets; flowers in September. Stem 1 to 2 feet 
high; racemes short, few (3 to 12) flowered; color of flower darker red 
than in LZ. cardinalis, more like L. fulgens ; ‘distinguished from all simi- 
lar ones by the short lobes of the calyx, and the ovate mucronate lower 
segments of the c 
insert here oy description of a nearly related species from the coun- 
try below Mont 
onge su jtiperantibus, superioribus pedicello saat ter calycis alata 
bre 
laciniis subulatis corollam vix aequantibus s. ea vioribus; laciniis. 
iad superioribus linearibus, sferbilius lanceolato-linearibus, acumi- 
na 
ti between Monterey and Cerralbo; flowers in rel? ee i. 
tevensis, Raf., but distinguished by its entire smoothness b ong iB 
the ca 127 ~— ,) thick and foliaceous spike, and by the shorter women of 
the calyx. 
“*? Lobelia pectinaia, n. sp., caule erecto, scabriusculo, folioso; foliis, 
practey et ibis calycinis pectinato-dentatis, seabris ; foliis inferioribus 
oblongo- linearibus sessilibus, superioribus e basi lata cordata, decurrente 
in ers 6 lines long: are with 3 silts cos ‘hb 
43 Bri atrorubens, n. Sp., perennis, foliis adialibus 
a petiolatis 
lanceolatis, : atis, villous ‘caulis glabri glau ci eey supern e u- 
midis, cla ian caule iteratim dichotomo, ad bifurcationes biked eis subi 
latis pilosis instructas involucrum alare m elon £6: padi oot eren 
involucris campanulatis 5-dentatis, ma nie itoais. ae eh ; 
Cositiiriachi on the bo 8 of of streamiets, owers i aaa. Peren- 
Septe 
nial, 14 to 2 feet high ; leaves all —" 5 to 6 shiettes long, 9 lines wide, 
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