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Fic. 7. Same as fig. 6, side view. 
Photographs 4~7, by H. Hasselbring, all natural size. ! 
1G. 8. Section of an acervulus on apple limb showing the basidia and 
conidia. 
Fig. 9. Conidia. 
FG. 10. Conidia germinating. 
1G. 11, Conidia germinating; secondary conidia forming, some of them 
arising very near the original conidium. 
FIG. 12. Germinating conidium with mycelium and new conidia. 
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NEW CARYOPHYLLACEA AND CRUCIFERZ OF THE 
SIERRA MADRE, CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO. 
Tue following plants, except the last species (which was collected 
some years ago upon the Lumholtz Archzological Expedition), belong 
to an extensive suite (rich in novelties), which is soon to be distributed — 
by Professor E. O. Wooton, of the Agricultural College at Mesilla Park, 
New Mexico. The collection was made by Messrs. C. H. T. Townsend © 
and C. M. Barber upon a rather arduous journey to a region as yet 
but little known. 
Cerastium sordidum. —Densely glandular-tomentose and_ sordid, 
2.2°" high: stems thickish, prostrate or nearly so, producing large and. 
slightly fleshy leaf-buds in alternate axils; the foliar leaves, bormé — 
chiefly near the ends of these prostrate shoots, oblanceolately acuté — 
I-nerved, 4™ long, 1-1.4™ broad, finely and densely tomentose upol — 
both surfaces, persistent and at length glabrate, white and scarious 0 _ 
marcescent : flowering branches erect, subsimple, arising from the thick: | 
ish buds above mentioned, bearing 2 to 4 pairs of oblong or linea! 
rather small acute leaves below the middle, naked above, terminat 
in * few-flowered more or less elongated uniparous or irregular cy@ 
pedicels 1-1.5™ long: sepals ovate, herbaceous, sordid-toment 
5-6™™ long, only the acute apex scarious: petals white, 7-8" long 
obovate-oblong, somewhat narrowed below the shortly 2-cleft and 
more or less crisped summit: stamens 5: capsule straight, erech 
1 long; the teeth as in § OrrHopon.— Collected by C. H. T. Tome 
aes e M. Barber on the Sierra Madre, 8*™ southeast of Colom 
, altitude 2310", 30 May, 1899, no. 40. Type 
Drymaria Townsendii. — Delicate glabrous annual: stems filifo 
4~to™ long, leafy : leaves slightly fleshy, orbicular, 5-nerved, rou 
