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tube, longer and usually reflexed peduncles, and relatively slender and 
more acute capsules. Like J. latifolius, this species is somewhat im- 
termediate between §$ (noe and Hunanus. 
Mimvtus Graciiires. A delicate annual, 3 to 5 inches high; stem 
usually simple, glandular-puberulent under a lens: leaves about four 
pairs, very small, seldom exceeding 4 lines in length, sessile, lanceolate, 
obtusish or scarcely acute, entire or minutely denticulate, the round: 
ish cotyledonary (?) leaves persisting at base: peduncles springing by 
; 
pairs from each node, an inch long, filiform, spreading horizontally — 
and gracefully curved upward: calyx oblong-campanulate, a little — 
over 2 lines in length, a line in diameter, the equal teeth slightly — 
spreading, obtuse, strongly ciliate; corolla rose-purple with yellow — 
markings in the throat, the tube not quite twice the length of the 
calyx; limb spreading, 3 or 4 lines in diameter, strongly bilabiate, the 
upper lip much shorter than the ample 3-lobed lower one : capsule 
symmetrical, of delicate texture, elliptical in outline, 2 lines in length, 
included in the scarcely inflated calyx ; seeds obtuse, apiculate at each 
end. — Collected by Mr. J. W. Congdon, at Mormon Bar, Maripos 
County, April, 1889. Near M. rubellus, Gray, and M. deflexus, Wat 
son, but differing from the former in its simple stem, much larger & 
rolla, and longer peduncles ; from the latter in the color of its corolla; 
and from both these and various other related species in its ciliate 
calyx. 
Aster ENnGetmannt, Gray, var. (?) PAUCICAPITATUS. Slender 
stem weak and flexuous: leaves numerous, oblong-elliptic, obtusishs ; 
apiculate, puberulent above and with scanty traces of tomentum 
neath, 10 to 15 lines long, a fourth as broad: heads solitary, term 
or sometimes 3 to 5; scales of the involucre more equal and less cloself 
imbricated than in the typical form or other varieties; rays white of 
pink. — Collected by Mr. C. V. Piper in the Olympic Mountains, : 
Washington, September, 1890, This is a very puzzling form 
perhaps a distinct species. If, however, Dr. Gray was right in ~ 
as | 
ing A. ledophyllus, Gray, and A. Engelmanni, var. glaucescens, 
rieties of the same species, Mr. Piper’s plants, which are in some 
regards intermediate between these varieties, should probably also be 
included in A. Engelmanni. : 
In closing, the writer wishes to express his warmest thanks m De 
Sereno Watson for his kind and ready aid in many points of . 
classification and perplexing nomenclature. 
