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MEMOIRS OF THE XEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN 



pale-green, minutely and rather sparsely black-giaiidular. 

 Spikes slenderly peduncled, 1 to 2 cm. long and 1 to 1.5 cm. thick, 

 densely flowered. Bracts 5 mm. long, boat-shaped, keeled, 

 sharply acmninate, thin, brown, long white-pilose, bearing a 

 nnm])er of longitudinally elongated brown spots. Calyx a little 

 longer than the bract, the tube hemispheric-campanulate, the 

 teeth linear-attenuate, unequal, about twice the length of the 

 tube, long-pilose like the bract. Corolla a half longer than the 

 calyx. Fruit strongly compressed, densely pilose, triangular in 

 outline, bearing the long densely hirsute style. 



Espia, 3,500 feet, 0. E. White, July 25, 1921 {no. 609). "1 to 

 3 feet high, in sunny places in the river-bottom, the flower 

 violet." 



Parosela oblongifolia 



Pul)erulent, the stems elongate, slender, little branched, light- 

 reddish-l)rown. Stipules 4 or 5 mm. long, narrow, attenuate from 

 the base, thin, reddish. Leaves mostly 2.5 cm. long, the petiole 

 about 1/5 of the length, the leaflets 13 to 17, opposite, very 

 shortly petiolulate, each subtended by a gland that is larger than 

 the others on the rachis. Leaflets 5 to 7 mm. long, 1.5 to 3 mm. 

 wide, oblong or slightly oblanceolate, with subrotund base and 

 rounded smmnit, mucronate, entire, the margin slightly involute 

 in drying, thickish, profusely black-glandular on the lower sur- 

 face, the venation obscure. Spikes terminating the upper 

 l)ranclilets, dense, at length elongate. Bracts boat-shaped, 5 nam. 

 long, 1.5 mm. wide, as folded, the linear straight beak about 1/3 

 of the length, this and the keel blue, the body greenish-white. 

 Cah"x campanulate, 5 or 6 mm. long, gray-pilose, bearing 8 or 10 

 strong green ribs, the teeth triangular, acute, slightly longer 

 than the blue limb, which is broadly ovate Avith rounded outline, 

 and nerved. Keel pilose, hardly longer than the wings, the claw 

 and the limb of the wing of about equal length, the keel shorter 

 than the vexillum. Filaments united more than half way, the 

 anthers large, blue. 



Espia, 3,500 feet, 0. E. White, July 25, 1921 {no. 608). ''Two 

 to three feet high, the flowers dark indigo-blue." 



Cracca benensis 



Pubescent throughout, the hairs short and slightly ferrugi- 

 nous. Stems long and slender, more or less decumbent at the 



