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neoiisly stated in AA^atson's original description. *It was col- 

 lected also by Parish at the same time and place. 



Since that time it has remained otherwise nnknowii, nntil 

 Alay of the present year, when it was rediscovered by Dr. A. 

 Davidson, in Martinez Canyon, near Thermal, in the Colorado 

 Desert, at no great distance from the type station. 



DALEA SAUNDERSII. 



A shrub 6-lOdm. high, the old bark smooth and gray, the 

 new growth sparsely hirsute ; glands few, prominent and 

 prickle-like ; leatiets 2-8 pairs narroAvly lanceolate to oblance- 

 olate, 5-15mm. long, the margins revolute ; flowers in a narroAV 

 elongated raceme, shoi't pedicellate, 1cm. long, "ultra-marine 

 blue:'' calyx 5mm. high, its teeth shorter than the tube, acute, 

 the upper pair' broadened at base, ciliate ; style hirsute, becom- 

 ing 1cm. long; ovules 4. 



Collected in desert sands, near A^ictorville, cir. 3,000 ft. alt., 

 in the Alojave Desert, Alay 12-14, 1908, by IMr. C. F. Saunders. 



This bright tiowered shrub adds another species to AVat- 

 son's section Xylodalea, so well represented in tliis region, l)ut 

 is abundantly distinct. It may bear the name of its discoverer, 

 the author of iiiany agi-eeable papers on the aspects and phe- 

 nomena of nature. The type material has been divided between 

 the Gray Herbarium, and the herbaria of Messrs. Saunders and 

 'Parish. 



^' KRYNITZKIA UTAHEXSIS, Gray. Syn. Fl. 2, pt. I :427 

 (Supp.) Eritrichmm holopterum submolle, Gray 1. c. 894. .Cry- 

 ptanthe submollis, Coville, Death Valley, Rep. 166. Ord ^foun- 

 tain in the Alojave Desert; collected by Air. Leech. Previously 

 collected in California only by Air. Colville in the Pfinamint 

 JMountains, with whose specimens our's entirely agree. 



VERBESINA DISSITA, Gray. Proc. Am. Acad. 20:29. 

 Robinson lb. 34 :352. Collected near Arch Beach, Orange Coun- 

 ty, Alay, 1903, by Airs. AI. F. Bradshaw. Previously known only 

 from Lower California. 



Proc. Am. Acad. 17:373. 



