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which he doubtfully refers to a variety of B. procumbens with “floribus 
quam in icone fere duplo majoribus.” Of the numbers here mentioned, 
Dr. Schaffner’s no. 69 and Parry & Palmer’s no. 701 are in the Gray Herba- 
tium and appear identical with the sheep-poisoning plant recently sent by 
Professor Ducks. The stems are very short (3 to 4°™ in length) and 
prostrate; they spread from the summits of a 2—-several-branched caudex. 
The flowers, mostly appearing terminal, are more than 3 °™ long and 2 °™ 
in diameter, the long slender proper tube of the corolla greatly exceeding 
the calyx. The lobes of the corolla are rounded or retuse. I cannot at 
all believe that this is the plant sketched in the Calques des Dessins, fl. 920, 
which has the grumose roots, far longer branches, narrower corolla-limb 
and pointed lobes. It seems best, therefore, to characterize the large- 
flowered plant as a new species. The name chosen alludes to its baneful 
effects on sheep. 
Bouchetia arniatera, n. sp.—Pérennis pilis albis minutis curvatis 
hon-glanduliferis subcanescens: caudicis erectis vel patentis ramis sub- 
lerraneis saepe elongatis flexuosis pallidis; caulibus aeriis pluribus brevibus 
34% longis prostratis foliosis prope apicem florentibus: foliis lanceolatis 
vel clliptico-oblanceolatis 8-11 ™™ Jongis 2.5—-4 ™™ Jatis breviter petiolatis 
Aa vel obtusiusculis uninerviis: pedunculis 3-6 ™™ longis teretibus; 
nibus solitariis: calycis lobis lanceolatis obtusiusculis erectis 4™™ longis 
{tam tubus ovato-turbinatus paulo longioribus: corollae purpureae 32-35" 
© 2% latae externe obscure glanduloso-puberulae tubo proprio 
oe longe exserto, faucibus gradatim ampliatis, limbi lobis 
soldeis apice rotundato vel retuso: filamentis equalibus paulo 
— iy corollae athxis filiformibus glabris 11 ™™ longis; antheris 
, S$ 1.5™™ longis: capsula ovoidea obtusiuscula 6™™ longa: 
. longis pallide brunneis irregulariter ovoideis, integumento 
. axe celluloso.—B. procumbens, var. ? Hemsl. Biol. Cent.- 
Luis . 1882.—In mountains of San Miguelita, Valley of San 
tributed 2 ele 1876, Dr. J. G. Schaffner,? no. 69 (hb. Gray), dis- 
una; San Luis Potosi, 1878, Drs. Parry & Palmer, no. 701 
oo of Schaffner’s name here given is the one used on his printed Latin 
8 Mexico an a oo a German apothecary, a native of Darmstadt, who _ 
‘nd San Lais Potosi aces in the neighborhood of the city of oman ee ~ 
as J. G. “arty himself in two ways, sometimes as Wilhelm nec 
td a questi tes a The two signatures have given rise to some = san 
Ts stands bic. ; risceck of the person or persons concerned. The 
fist initial ; tin Guilielmus and the “J” probably for Johann or J ohannes. 
"at, Was drop Ries Manner of the Germans being regarded as relatively unimpor- 
chaffner in his ordinary German signature. 
