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prove to be distinct. It has less cartilaginous auricles, smaller flowers, 
and more ascending sepals, but the material at hand is over-mature 
and has lost all its seeds. 
Juncus Pringlei, n. sp., dense caespitosus ; caulibus erectis graci- 
libus rigidis 1.5-2.5 dm. altis sulcatis ; cataphyllis basilaribus mucro- 
niferis stramineis, supremis laminigeris lamina 4-10 em. longa ; inflore- 
scentia densa 3-7-flora a bractea infima vix superata ; floribus 4.5-5 
mm. longis ; sepalis lanceolatis petala subaequantibus apice subulatis 
dorso crassis viridibus lateribus castaneis marginibus membranaceis 
pallidis ; staminibus 6, antheris linearibus flavidis quam filamentum 
longioribus ; fructibus trigono-ellipsoideis mucronatis nitidis pallide 
castaneis vel olivaceis 5-6 mm. longis; seminibus 0.4 mm. longis elli- 
' psoideis mucronatis. — Oaxaca: Cuesta de San Juan del Estado, alti- 
tude 2125 meters, August 31, 1894, C. G. Pringle, no. 5818 (type, m 
Gray Herb.). An interesting addition to the little group of species, 
J. Drummondii E. Meyer, J. Parryi Engelm., and J. Hallii Engelm., 
all of which are confined to the cordillera of western North America. 
J. Pringle: closely simulates J. Hallii of Colorado and Utah, but 
differs in its blunt-pointed, not retuse, capsule ; and, unlike any of its 
three allies, it has mucronate instead of caudate-appendaged seeds. 
Scutellaria spinescens, n. sp., fruticosa 1-2 dm. alta ; caule crass 
tortuoso cortice cinereo, ramis implicatis rigidis spinescentibus cmere0- 
hirtellis, pilis minutis; foliis ellipticis vel oblongis integris breve 
petiolatis rugosis cinereo-hispidulis, majoribus 1 cm. longis; floribus 
axillaribus; pedicellis 5 mm. longis; calyce 2.5-3 mm. longo glanduloso- 
hispido; corolla curvata pilosa 2 cm. longa flava vel rubella, tubo 
anguste cylindrico,—Coanuita: by a brook in San Lorenzo Cafion, 
near Saltillo, September 21-23, 1904, Edward Palmer, nos. 392 (type; ™ 
Gray Herb.) and 394. A characteristic dwarf shrub closely simulating 
S. suffrutescens Watson, which, however, has very minutely pulveru : 
glandless branches, leaves, and calyx. The corolla of S. spimescens, 
shown by Dr. Palmer’s material, is very variable in color (as 18 that of 
S. suffrutescens) ; the material under no. 392 having the corolla canary” 
yellow passing to salmon, with the galea reddish; while no. 394 ~ 
the corolla of various shades of red, with yellow only on the sides 
the galea. the 
Satvia Sancrar-Luctaz Seem. Bot. Herald, 327 (1856). 1n us 
writer’s synopsis of Mexican Salvias (Proc. Am. Acad. XxXV. 514), : 
plant was placed in the Vulgares and was taken to be the same 9 
plant of that section collected by Dr. Edward Palmer in Tepi¢. id 
sequently the writer has studied Seemann’s original material at Kew 
it proves to be, not a plant of the Vulgares as stated by Seemann 12 
