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than the shallow tube of the corolla; lacinie narrowly lanceo- 
late, elongate, acute, longer than the tube, spreading or re- 
flexed; scales usually broadly oval, large, longer than the 
tube, incurved ; styles much longer than the globose-depres 
sed ovary, rarely of same length; corolla enveloping the 
ne thin ea ep 4-lobed ¢ _ ule, which is com- 
nly circumscissile, but in some instances rather irregularly 
baniting: souls generally ‘all 4 devuiaped, “0. 5-0.6 lines long, 
triangular, oblique, with a very short linear ee 
It is always found in dry places on low herbs, especially 
ortulacca, also Kallstremia, ene ee drip Poly- 
gonum, etc., and sometimes even on som ne a 
bie: between Queretaro and Salamanca, Humboldt! 
° and Camargo, Gregg! Western Texas, New Me xico and 
rizona, Wright! 1627, 1636, 1689 te 510, 695), — 
eueet Santa Fé, Fe ndler 1659; foot of f the Rocky Mout- 
tains, James! Jamaica, Broomfield! Pu 
Dr. Hays found a specimen on the San “Pedro ip 
zona, on Suceda, with much more dense inflorescence, 
ae a form of C. Cali techs which will be 
nod by the on-the same saline plant, and mainly i 
gushed yt b os Sane campanulate, not turbinate, caly%, 
e and the seeds. 
casrapenbeiies from New Mexico show a tendon 
papillose ubescence, and one from Sonora, pen ie 
= ome , has the unusually small flo wers (1 
oO om papillose-scabrous. ne 
vat ? Deserrorum; C. Desert : iat ia 
pedicels Jong, Hoag ve on — forte 1 lin hong A _ 
ar lacinie twi tube ; scales 
ho bes 8 shorter tha 
issile with a 
or ‘reduced. to nie lateral toothe 
dulous, intrastylar 9 sare — 
“4: 3B. O, GRACTLLIMA, n. Sp.t : eaulibas eens 
demum deciduis ; floribus in fascic 
dense glomeratos congestis ; bracteis | 
hesoadg ; calycis Bee ‘lobis enecolaate sepe co ° 
as, 
