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thacez. The lower, ovate, entire, oan eter nerved, rad- 
ical leaves of Ca stilleja coccinea are the forebodings of Plan- 
strin, ngen 
onnections, of an cbbihdinthen abies the calyx however 
consisting of two sejunct sepals, in the axil of a bract, accord- 
the perv on With its immediate proximates. That 
the embryo should be undeveloped, or in a fungous coales- 
cence, seems rok artical in a parasite, where pallid, fungous 
sponginess is a frequent character, but can never, as an iso 
ted character, decide a diremption contrary to the most com- 
ao evidence of all other characters, as in this case. 
he subscarious flowers and erect spike of Acanthus con- 
nect nect the orobrane ite eous forms with oa ogee Lei — 
new. “Also the hypocraterimorph, soarioa, qi 
ols of — iva, of Spain, i is the shes de one of 
d:Plantagines alba nae every 
<3 ante rato of such types as so: Verbena’ west nee 
site rgesch sometimes deeply entate ene . 
