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isophyllum) potosina, Ascending annual, branching from 
stems glabrous, or the younger parts minutely ee 2 dm. 
@, bluntish at tip, glabrous, sale green itera: glaucous beneath, 
n coarsely appressed-crenulate ; stipules deltoid-acuminate, lacini- 
rs few in small mostly terminal clusters: involucre pyriform, 
us; the lobes elongate-triangular, entire or nearly so, the 2 flank- 
‘broad rounded sinus much larger and lacerate; glands 4, long- 
appendages very narrow or wanting; false gland aristate, 
m the base of the sinus: capsule glabrous, ellipsoidal, 2.5 to 
oad, barely 2 mm. high, the three lobes rounded: seed short- 
subquadrate, 1.5 to 1.75 mm. long, the dorsal angle prominent, 
ntral suppressed, blackish, pulverulent, the angles and the margins 
unequal honeycomb-pits paler. —San Luis Potosi and adjacent 
ipas. San Luis Porost, without locality, 1876 (7. G. Schaffner, 
in part); region of San Luis Potosi, alt. 1,850 to 2,460 m., 
rry & Palin no. 814, in part): Tamau.ipas, near Tula, 
ci 21, 1898 (#. W. D. Holway, no. 3200). — Related to E. hypertei- 
Jolia, L., E. Preslit, Guss., and #. brasiliensis, Lam., but differing in 
its hier flowers, larger capsule, and much larger differently marked 
see 
E. (Anisophyllum) interaxillaris. Perennial, with slightly woody 
base: stems prostrate or slightly ascending, 1 dm. or so long, pilose with 
more or less spreading hairs: leaves short-petioled, oblong or obovate- 
oblong, oblique, rounded at each end, 0.5 to 1 em. long, 4 to 7 mm. wide, 
minutely crenulate, mostly purple-tinged or blotched, sparingly pilose on 
the margins when. young, soon glabrate; stipules narrowly triangular, 
fimbriate : flowers solitary, a single one accompanying each pair of leaves, 
on slender pedicels 2 or 3 mm. long: involucre campanulate, 1.5 mm. 
long, glabrous outside ; the lobes triangular, about equal, hairy within ; 
glands 3 or 4, brows mostly with suborbicular white appendages 
1 mm. in diameter; the 5th gland replaced by an elongated false-lobe 
at the base of the shallow triangular sinus: ovary glabrous. — MoreELos, 
Puente de Ixtla, July 3, 1900 ( Charles C. Deam, no. 25). Related to 
E. stictospora, E ngelm., but less pubescent and with solitary flowers. 
E. (Zygophyllidium) muscicola. Caudex tuberiform, globose or 
oblong, 3 to 5 em. long, narrowed above to a cylindric neck; stem very 
slender, branching from near the base, the slender flexuous subsimple or 
slightly forked branches 2 or 3 dm. long, glabrous: lower leaves subor- 
bicular to ovate, rounded or blunt; the upper elliptic-lanceolate, 0.5 to 
