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Bull. Torr, Club, xiii. 142 (1886), also Fl. Fr. 261, and Man. 17. 

 I did not believe that the plant with the remarkably irregular 

 calyx described by me could be that which had been intended 

 by Hooker's figure until I had seen the originals of .S. glandulosus 

 at Kew. Such falsification of the characters of a species is not 

 publication ; and this beautiful plant was truly first described, 

 and therefore first published, as S. peramcenus, which name 

 ought to be continued in use, and Hooker's suppressed as being 

 worse than a nomen nudum. 



E. Mildreds. Streptanthus Mildredcs, Greene, Fl. Fr. 260. 



E. BiOLETTii. S. Biolettii, Greene, Pitt, ii 225. 



E. PULOHELLA. S. pulchellus, Greene, 1. c. 



E. NIGRA. S. niger, Greene, Bull. Torr. Club, xiii 141. 



E. ASPBRA. 5". asper, Greene, Pitt, iii 225. 



B. ALBIDA. S. albidus, Greene, Pitt. i. 62. 



E. 8ECUNDA. S. secundus, Greene, Fl. Fr. 261. 



E. HispiDA. S. hispidus, A. Gray. Am. Acad. vi. 184. 



E. VERSICOLOR. S. versicolor, Greene, Eryth. iii. 99. In 

 publishing this species now nearly ten years since, I expressed 

 dissatisfaction with it and its allies as members of Streptan- 

 thus. The corolla in this one is extremely bilabiate. 



E. viOLAOBA. Doubtless annual and larger, perhaps two feet 

 high or more, but only the upper leaves and flowering branches 

 known, these perfectly glabrous, glaucescent; leaves lance- 

 linear and sagittate-clasping, remotely dentate : racemes several, 

 slender, the flowers slenderly pedicellate : calyx bilabiate, the 3 

 upper sepals connivent together at tip, obtusely keeled, of a 

 rich violet or red-purple ; corolla as strongly bilabiate, the large 

 upper petals with white-margined and rather wide limb, the 

 corolla otherwise like the calyx as to color : stamens in 3 very 

 unequal pairs ; upper pair of filaments completely united and 

 anthers greatly reduced : pods 3 inches long or more, straight, 

 ascending, very narrow. 



Solitary upper and widely branched part of a plant otherwise 

 unknown, collected somewhere in middle California by Dr. 

 Edw. Palmer, in 1876; specimen in TJ. S. Herb, sheet 4297. 

 Three specimens in U. S. Herb, from San Luis Obispo, by M. 



