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suborbicular ; sterna flexuose. — Arizona." — (Watson in Wheeler's Prelim- 

 inary Report, 1874, p. 14.) 



Lycium pallidum, Miers. — Fruit eaten, but insipid. El Puerco, N. 

 Mex., at 5,000 feet altitude, on dry gravel soils or mesas (90). 



Lycium Anderson ii, Gray, var. Wrightii, Gray.— The variety is only 

 a more leafy, fewer- and smaller-flowered, spiny form of the species. — Camp 

 Bowie, Ariz. (448). Nevada. 



Datura meteloides, DC. — Perennial, 2-4° high, whitish trom a 

 very close soft pubescence ; calyx (flowering) 2-4' long, 6-8" in diameter; 

 corolla pale blue, regularly funnel-shaped, 6-9' long and about 5' in 

 diameter across the mouth, with 5 slender, delicate lobes 6-12" long. 

 Capsule prickly, nodding on a short peduncle, when ripe opening irregu- 

 larly; seeds surrounded with a cord-like margin. This is the common 

 Datura Wrightii of the gardens. — Common in the southern and south- 

 western part of the United States, and extending into Mexico — Camp 

 Grant, Ariz. (381). 



Nicotiana trigonophylla, Dunal. — Usually rather slender, 2° high, 

 from a hardened or woody base. Viscidly pubescent ; leaves lanceolate- 

 oblong, obtuse or acute, tapering to a petiole, or dilated auriculate at base ; 

 flowers pedicellate, somewhat unilateral by a curve in some of the pedicels, 

 greenish or yellowish-white, about 1' long; orifice often a little constricted; 

 lobes short, spreading slightly ; calyx-lobes variable, from narrowly to 

 broadly triangular. — Camp Crittenden, Southern Arizona, at 5,000 feet alti- 

 tude. No. 354, from Cottonwood, Arizona, appears to be a form of this 

 species, but has longer, narrower calyx-lobes, and much more spreading 

 and acute lobes to the corolla. It is withal also a much more branching 

 plant. 



Nicotiana attenuata, Torr.— Nevada and Utah. 



SCROPHULARINEtE. 



By Prof. T. C. Porter. 



Verbascum Thapsus, Linn. (Gray's Man. p. 325). — Utah, 1871, 1872, 

 Watson's Report. 



Antirrhinum maurandioides, Gray (Proc. Am. Acad. 7, p. 376. 



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