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terminating the branchlets, involved in wool especially the base 

 of the calyx and the subtending green foliar bracts ; bracts pin- 

 nately 3-cleft, the terminal lobe surpassing the calyx: sepals 5, 

 green, equal or nearly so, pungently mucronate, hardly united 

 except by the enveloping wool, about /"""^ long: corolla light 

 blue, tubular, dilating into a broader throat, tube surpassing the 

 calyx, lobes oblong, obtuse, about half as long as the tube: 

 stamens scarcely exserted (the anthers only in the sinuses of the 

 corolla lobes): ovules about four to each cell, not all maturing: 

 seeds small, rhombic in outline, obscurely scarlous on the angles 

 and the tips, apparently not developing mucilage when wetted. 



This is a close ally of G, floccosa Gray, which is a plant of Oregon, 

 extending southwest into California. In this species it may be noted that the 

 leaves are usually simple, the calyx of four unequal lobes, the corolla tube 

 yellow, the anthers exserted, the seeds fewer, larger, not angled, developing 

 copious mucilage. 



Following Bentham, Mr. Howell in his FL N. W. A?n, restores to generic 

 rank the section HuGELiA and places in it G. floccosa. If that genus is to 

 stand, the species now proposed must find its way into it, but I am unable to 

 see any valid generic characters. 



Named for Mr. Wilcox, mentioned above, who with Mr. Merrill secured 

 three collections of it, all near St. Anthony, Idaho, in July 190 1 ; nos. 822, 862, 

 and 952. 



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Lappula Columbiana, n. sp. — Annual, 3-5 "^"^ high, hirsute 

 with soft white hairs, those on the leaves with pustulate base: 

 stem simple below, upward freely and divaricately branched; 

 the branches tapering, long and slender, sparsely fruited : leaves 

 from linear-spatulate (below) to linear, passing into the bracts 

 which exceed the short pedicels: sepals nearly linear, 5'^ 

 long, surpassing the fruit: corolla small, mostly light blue: nut- 



lets similar, prickles few (7-9), united below into a shallow, 



mm 



involute-margined cup, finely and closely muricate ventrally? 

 the murications on the dorsal face (disk) in about three rows, 

 those of the middle row largest. 



This is the Z. texana of the Flora of the Paloiise Region by Piper and 

 Beattie; FL N, IK Am. Howell in part at least; not Z. texana (Scheele) 

 Britt. The latter is indeed Texan and not well known. Neither may it be 

 considered Z. r////if/a/a (Gray) Rydb. (See Bull. Terr. Bot. Club 28 : 31)* Now 



