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Seeds often 20-24^ with deep transverse rug?e so as to appear articulated. A very distinct 

 specieSj which was found by Dr. Bigelow, in Whipple's Expedition, as far west as the Colorado 

 cf California^ hut was omitted in the Botanical Keport. 



PiiACELiA ciLTATA^ Beuth. I. 0. Grassy hills, Sari Luis Rey^ California^ February; Parry. 

 San Diego ; Thurher^ (a large state of the plant.) Hill sides, Sonora, March ; Capt. E. K, Smith. 

 Ojo de Vaca, Chihuahua ; Thurher. 



Emmenantee penduliflorAj Benth. I. c. ; Alph. DO. I. c. San Pasqual, California, May ; 

 Thurber. We have also specimens of this rare plant collected by Dr, Andrews^ near Monterey, 



POLEMONIACEiE. 



Phlox Drummondii, Hook. Bot. 3Iag. t. 3441; BentJi. in DC. Prodr. 9,^. 305. Sandy places, 

 central and western Texas, June to September. 



Phlox speciosAj PursJij Fl. l^p. 149 ; Benth. L c. 2j. 307. P, longifoliaj Torr. in Stanslanj 

 Bep, Gravelly hills, on the upper Rio Grande. ■ 



Var.? Stansburyi: suffruticosa ; caule superne pedicellis calycibusc[ue glandulosa-pubescentibus; 

 ^ corolla lobis oblongo-cuneatis obtusis vel emarginatis. Gravelly hills near the Organ Mount- 



ains, New Mexico ; Bigeloio. San Luis Mountain ; Capt. E. K. Smith. Plant about a span 

 high, much branched from a ligneous base, hairy and glandular, or the leaves and lower part 

 of the stem nearly smooth. Teeth of the calyx scarcely as long as the tube. Corolla rose-color, 

 the segments often a little emarginate. Style two-thirds as long as the tube of the corolla. Cells 

 of the ovary 2-ovuled. 



Phlox triovulata {Thurher MSS.): canescenti-pubescens ; caule erecto sufFruticoso e basi 

 ramoso ; foliis anguste linearibus rigidiusculis ; calycis laciniis subulatis tubo suba^qualihus ; 



corolla3 tubo calyce tertio 



margine sa?pe eroso-denticulatis ; stylo 



ovario 8ub^c[uante ; loculis ovarii triovulatis, Piavines, Mule Spring ; Thurher , Bigelow. Rio 

 Mimbres; Dr. Henry. Escondido ; Parry. Flowers from April to July. (No. 504, 1653, 

 1654, Wright.) Plant 6-12 inches high, the lower part of the stem decidedly shrubby. Leaves 

 1-1| inch long, and 1-1| line wide. Corolla white, f-l^- inch in diameter. The tube nearly 

 straight ; segments varying from nearly orbicular to obovate, sometimes with a short mucro. 

 Style and its deep divisions scarcely as long as the ovary. Ovules superimposed. This is the 

 only species of Phlox hitherto found in which there are more than two ovules In eacli cell. 



CoLLOMiA GRACXLis, Z?ow^?.; Bcuth. L c.p. 308. New Mexico, Sonora, and California, Marcb 

 May. 



CoLLOMiA GRANDIFLORA, Dougl. iu Liudl. Bot. Beg. t. 1174 ; Benth. I. c. p. 308. Mountains 



east of San Diego ; Parry. 



Navaeretia atractyloides, Hooh. & Am. Bot. Beech, p. 368 ; Benth. I. c. p. 310. Dry places 

 near San Diego and Monterey, California ; Parry. San Pasqual, May, Thurher. 



Navarretia Schottii (n, sp.): humilis ; foliis lineari-oblongis inciso-dentatis glabriusculis, 

 dentibus paucis patentibus integris spinescentibus ; capitulis paucifloris ; corollfe tubo calyce 

 sublongiore ; staminibus exsertis ; ovarii loculis 2-3-ovulatis. In the Colorado Desert^ Sonora ; 

 Schott. Plant 2 or 3 inches high, simple below. Leaves about three-fourths of an inch long, 

 with 5-6 salient teeth on each side ; the involucral ones similar in form to the others. Flowers 

 apparently while, sessile. Segments of the calyx subulate, terminating in a long slender spine, 

 or rather bristle. Segments of the corolla oblong, acute, mucronate. The specimens were col- 



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