fruiting calyx on a slender pedicel of about its own length, of 

 round-oval outline save as modified by the large and prominent 

 triangular uppermost lobe or tooth. 



Bear Mountain, near Silver City, New Mexico, 24 April, 

 1903, O. B. Metcalfe, a part of his n. 28 as in U. S. Herb., 

 the other specimens under that distribution number being of a 

 very different species. The present plant has some points 

 notably recalling the Calif ornian M. nasutus. Apparently the 

 same is T. E. Wilcox's n. 31 from Fort Huachuca, Ariz., 

 1894, in flower only. 



M. cusPiDATus. Of the height of M. nasutus, stems as quad- 

 rangular but more slender, with longer internodes and fewer 

 leaves and flowers ; herbage not reddened but pale-green and 

 glaucescent ; lower face of foliage more or less sparsely setu- 

 lose-hairy, otherwise glabrous : leaves of suborbicular outline, 

 the lowest on long and slender petioles, the lower and middle 

 cauline with a merely spatulate to broadly cuneate base, these 

 and the closely sessile bracts above them cuneate, all sparsely 

 dentate and plainly cuspidate-pointed : pedicels slender, shorter 

 than the calyx, this with not very prominent upper lobe : 

 corolla small as in M. nasutus. 



Known only as collected in wet shades among rocks along 

 the upper Stanislaus River, California, by the writer, late in 

 June, 1889. 



M. PROCERUS. Stout, upright, presumably a yard high, the 

 large terminal racemes alone a foot long, in every part hirtel- 

 lous-puberulent : leaves below the inflorescence as far as known 

 round-oval, petiolate, all the floral sessile, broader than long, 

 the lower of these closely, deeply and almost pectinately den- 

 tate, the upper much reduced and entire : fruiting pedicels 

 stout, ascending, much longer than the very large calyces, 

 these broadly oblique-oval, % inch long, more than Yz inch 

 wide, their teeth large, short and blunt : corolla yellow, large, 

 but not so in due proportion to the plant. 



Santa I^ucia Mountains, California, R. H. Plaskett, June, 

 1898, n. 156, as in my herbarium. 



