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white- venulose above, paler and sparsely pubescent beneath, with 

 short curved hairs ; cymes many-flowered and dense, especially 

 the terminal one, which is far surpassed by all the others ; 

 branches of the cymes, the pedicels, and often the calyx pubes- 

 cent; sepals lanceolate, acute, of more than half the length 

 of the small corolla, this yellowish white, often tinged with 

 flesh-color. 



Frequent in the salt marshes of Suisun Bay, California, the 

 type specimens by Mr. Baker, n. 3247, from near Suisun, 6 

 June, 1903. The plant enters into the composition of the A. 

 cannabinum of my Manual, but it is far enough from being the 

 same as the eastern plant. 



A. MYEiANTHUM. About 3 feet high; pale-green, glaucous; 

 simple below, dichotomously branched at summit; the very 

 large and dense terminal panicle of cymes greatly surpassed by 

 the smaller lateral ones ; leaves oblong-lanceolate to elliptical, 

 the cauline about 4 inches long, all tapering abruptly to a short 

 petiole, and abruptly though hardly mucronately acute ; the 

 venation not conspicuous above, somewhat so beneath ; flowers 

 very small, little more than a line long, greenish ; sepals lanceo- 

 late, equalling or exceeding the tube of the cylindric corolla. 



Known only as collected by myself along the Humboldt 

 Eiver at Palisade, Nevada, 24 July, 1893. 



Affinities of the Cichoriaceae. 



There is before me printed evidence of mental disquiet over 

 the fact that in certain books of recent publication the Cichori- 

 aceae are not placed " after the Compositse proper," but before 

 them (Ehodora, vi, 62) ; and as there is little room for doubt about 

 my being responsible as having suggested not only to the late 

 lamented author of the Flora of Pennsylvania, but also to the 

 writers of two or three more extensive and influential treatises 

 the advisability of receiving this group of plants in the rank of 

 a Natural Family apart from the Composite (Pittonia, i, 295, 

 and Bay-Eegion Manual, 219), it belongs naturally to myself 

 to direct the attention of any mind openly professing to be ex. 

 ercised about these matters, to some part at least, of the much 

 that has been written in times past relating to them. 



