1893.) New and Noteworthy North American Plants. 303 
1.5 to 1.8™ broad, sessile, those on the sterile branches short- 
petioled and longer, distantly serrulate or entire, densely and 
minutely black-punctate beneath: the slender pedicels, leaf- 
like bracts, and sepals of the three or four-flowered racemes 
densely viscid pubescent: corolla violet-purple, 3.5 long, 
strongly bilabiate and ventricose, with narrow throat and 
@Oreille, Idaho, August, 1892, at an elevation of 3,000", 
D.T. MacDougal. A member of the puzzling P. Mengiesiz 
ftoup, which has been variously modified by Dr. Gray and 
Professor Greene. Our plant seems to bear some relationship 
in habit and general structure to the dwarf alpine P. David- 
somtt Greene, but, of course, is very much larger in every 
Way, the erect herbaceous leafy flowering branches rising 7.5 
to 12.5 above the ground from a more or less procumbent 
or horizontal woody subterranean stem. 
15- PLANTAGO PATAGONICA Jacq., var. lanatifolia, n. var. 
~Nearest to var. guaphaliotdes Gray, but distinguished by 
MB More Spreading habit, floccose throughout with long silky 
ed wool, more numerous (thirteen to twenty-one) ob- 
Olate broader (Io to 18") usually five to seven-nerved 
somewhat Minutely denticulate leaves, more numerous 
peduncles, thicker spikes (6 to 12™ in diameter), and 
Hock Mt two-thirds the length of the sepals.—Texas, 
1891 cd ¥. W. Thurow in 1890), Industry (#7. Wuralow in 
). This description includes two forms, one of which is 
fee floccose, with narrower and more numer- 
Pikes and very acute leaves; the other more robust and 
*Preading 
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