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of S. Drummondii, Benth., and S. Wrightii, Gray, but distinguished 
from the former by its ligneous base and clearly perennial nature, 
and from the latter by the form of the leaves, character of the pu- 
bescence, smaller blue flowers, and less cucullate upper lip. While 
it may ultimately prove to be a variety of S. Wrigtii, such a disposi- 
tion of it in the absence of connecting forms and with the difference of 
geographic occurrence would at present be unwarranted. 
Mimutus Coneponu. Very small, at flowering subacaulescent ; 
stems glandular-pubescent, becoming in fruit 1 to 4 inches high, much 
branched near the base; branches simple: leaves ovate or lanceolate, 
obtuse, entire, dark purple beneath, $ an inch long, narrowed at base 
to ciliate petioles of nearly equal length; peduncles in fruit 14 to 
2 lines long, often reflexed: flowers very small; calyx-tube very 
slender, prismatic, glandular-puberulent, moderately gibbous at base, 
becoming strongly so in fruit, ending obliquely in short teeth, the 
upper tooth the longest; corolla rose-purple, the slender tube 4 to 6 
lines in length, with little or no distinctly enlarged throat, the sub- 
regular abruptly spreading limb 14 to 2 lines in diameter; stamens 
strongly didynamous, the upper pair much shorter and occasionally 
with abortive anthers: style puberulent above; capsule cartilaginous, 
very gibbous, laterally compressed, narrowed from a moderately broad 
base, acute, deeply furrowed on the sides; seeds minute, acute at each 
end.— Collected by Mr. J. W. Congdon, in Mariposa County, Cali- 
fornia, at Zimmerman’s Ranch, in March, 1887, in April, 1888 
(flowers and fruit), and in May, 1888 (fruit) ; also at Stockton Creek, 
March, 1889 (flowers); and at Agua Fria (fruit). The diminutive 
size and nearly acaulescent character of flowering specimens of this 
plant made it at first appear probable that it represented merely a 
dwarfed, early-spring form of one of the larger-flowered species. The 
constant characters of Mr. Congdon’s specimens, however, collected as 
they were at different dates and localities, and representing very dif- 
ferent stages of development, prove it a normal form and a distinct 
species, While the vegetative habit is much like that of M. Kelloggit, 
Curran, it is distinguished from that species by its much shorter co- 
rolla-tube and smaller limb, as well as by its acute and not at all 
oblong capsules. From WM. pulchellus, Grecne, it differs in its smaller 
rose-purple corolla without the yellow lip, in its much shorter calyx- 
teeth, and in other ways. In its short corolla-tube and very gibbous 
capsule it resembles M. latifolius, Gray, but differs in its smaller size, 
in its habit of branching from the base, (the stem of J. Jatifolius 
although branching above is simple below,) in its very slender calyx- 
