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teeth (less than a line in length): scape terete, glaucous, 13-2 feet 
high, simple, floriferous above the middle; sterile scales about three, 
lanceolate, attenuate, slightly toothed, 1-14 inches long; the floral 
similar, but much reduced above; raceme simple, loosely 12-20- 
flowered; pedicels 1-1} lines long: tube of the perianth but 3 lines 
long, about equalling its narrowly oblong obtusish 9-nerved segments . 
stamens about 8 lines long: capsule very glaucous, subglobose, 5—6 
lines in diameter. — Collected on calcareous mesas, Los Charcos, 
2 July, 1891 (no. 8745). This number was distributed last year by 
an oversight as “A. brunnea, Wats. n. sp.” Dr. Watson’s species, 
however, was founded upon no. 2218, from which this is quite distinct 
a8 to perianth and capsule. TV Orndae& 
SisyRINcHIUM PRINGLEI. Acaulescent, strictly erect, 1-2 feet 
high: root a dense fascicle of short, thickened fibres: leaves acerose, 
pungent, 6-10 inches in length, with broad, sheathing bases ; the latter 
Persistent, cleaving into fibres: scapes simple, compressed : inflores- 
Cenees single, terminal, an inch or more in length; spathe of two 
unequal bracts ; the longer exceeding and the shorter about equalling 
the included flowers ; spikelets 2 in each spathe, unequal, 3—5-flow- 
ered; flowers enclosed by oblong-lanceolate, acute, scarious-margined 
bractlets : perianth yellow; segments 4—5 lines long. capsule sub- 
globose. — Collected on dry calcareous hills near Guadalajara, 4 
September, 1893 (no. 4520). : 
