NEW PLANTS OF NORTHERN ARIZONA. 299 
characterize the effrontery of such proceedings in fitting terms, 
but forbear, believing that with a little change of scene the author 
of them will be as glad to bury them in oblivion as is the writer 
of this notice. 
EXPLANATION OF PLATES. 
PLATE 4. Front view of cranium of Locolopho don cornutus, “PER TNIE EAT gee” 
PLATE 5. ` Profile of th ition) proportion ; p with 
description. 
NEW PLANTS OF NORTHERN Peretii AND 
THE REGION ADJACE 
BY SERENO WATSON. 
è 
Ix the botanical collections made in 1871—72, mainly in the 
southern portion of the Great Basin, in northwestern Arizona and 
the adjacent desert section of California, by Mr. Ferd. Bischoff 
_ and others, under the direction of Lieut. G. M. Wheeler, Corps of 
Engineers, i in the course of his exploration of that region, several 
new species have been found which are here described, by consent, 
in anticipation of the fuller report now in PRSE With 
these are given some others occurring in a small collection made 
by Mrs. Ellen P. Thompson near Kanab, Southern Utah, during 
the last summer while accompanying her brother, Maj. Powell, in 
his Survey of the Colorado. Several of these species are of inter- 
est as confirming genera hitherto monotypical. Notes upon a 
few other species are added. 
POLYGALA SUBSPINO: OSA. — Perennial, herbaceous, Misie or more or less pubes- 
; Stems 2-8' high, branched abov e, the branches often spinose; leaves aoaea 
i ta T long, oblong or oblanceol ate, acuta or obtuse, attenuate to the raceme 
loose, MS ata bracts small and scarious; pedicels becoming vellexeil; shorter 
sepals naked or ciliate, the wings oblong, 4-5" long and 
. crested with a broad saccate process; style post apaan orbic- 
ular, emarginate, peere —Near ana, which has a linear or horn-shaped 
i and is 8 alwa wat 
£ a 
862), pubescent and very spiny; Arizona (Palmer), densely pubescent but 
_ Without spines ; Kanab (Mrs. E. P. Thompson), glabrous and spiny. Flowers “maroon 
and yellow ;” o ones summit; Jun 
PETALOSTEMO. em: "ESCENS.— Stem aoe glabrous; stipules and leaves spar- 
ingly silky; nem pA narrowiy oblong, obtuse, 3-6'' long; spike dense, long-pe- 
2" long hoe r aia subpu' bescent; bracts (and calyx) very ong villous, ‘subulate, 
; tooth of the 
petals ; 
he limb 
of the I Eee, wi TEEN emarginate, 7 li the e] , the 
