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Acad. 9:88, 1874; Doftdia mtiltiflora Heller, Cat, N. A. PI. 3. 



1898. 



Dondia multiflora (Torr.), n. comb. — Suaeda friiticosa multi- 

 flora Torr. Pacif. R. R. Kept. 4: 130. 1857 ; 5. stiffrutescens Wats. 

 Proc, Am. Acad. 9:88. 1874; Dondia suffrutescens Heller, Cat. 



N. A. PL 3. 1898. 



Dondia erecta (Wats.), n. sp. — Suaeda depressa erecta Wats. 

 Proc. Am. Acad. 9:90. 1874; Dondia depressa erecta Heller, 

 Cat. N. A. PI. 3. 1898. 



This is given specific rank, not because a depressed erect plant is an 

 anomaly, but because by reason of its constant well marked habit it is quite 

 distinct. Not only is it erect, but its narrow leaves and strict branches give 

 it an aspect quite its own. 



MISCELLANEOUS SPECIES, 



Recently a specimen of Abronia fragrans Nutt. was received 

 from T. D. A. Cockerell, of New Mexico. It seemed so differ- 

 ent from the Wyoming form of that species that it led to an 

 inquiry as to the typical A. fragrans. All the literature indicates 

 a viscid pubescent plant, and that is just what we find in speci- 

 mens secured to the southward and eastward of Wyoming. The 

 Wyoming form, which seems to extend northward and westward, 

 differs so essentially, it seems to me, that it may well bear a 

 varietal name. 



Abronia fragrans glaucescens, n. var. — Growing in clumps, 



freely branched, suberect, 15-25^"" high: stems glabrous or 

 nearly so below, upwardly becoming puberulent and subviscid: 

 leaves wholly glabrous, light green above, lighter and more or 

 less glaucous below (often silvery-glaucous): the white flowers 

 crowded in the involucres and forming spherical clusters 5 *^™ ^^ 

 more in diameter (locally known as "snowballs *'): fruit termi- 

 nating in a conical beak one-third as long as the narrowly winged 

 obconical body. 



Abronia cheradophila, n. n. — Abronia are?iaria Rydb. Mem, N. 

 Y. Bot. Gard, 1:137; ^^^ ^- arenaria Menzies, ex. Hook. Exot. 

 Fl./. igj. 



Allionia glandulifera, n. sp. — Perennial from woody rootstocks: 

 stems one or more from the crowns, somewhat dichotomously 



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