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lia- mucronata,[1] with fine red, and L. pectinata.[2] with blue flowers Amongst the most curious plants collected here is also to be mentioned an Eriogonum,[3] with inflated clavate internodia, and dark red flowers, Phaseolus bilobatus,[4] is another interesting plant.



    naked above, pedicels filiform, lower ones much longer than the flower, which is 15 to 18 lines in length; bright scarlet or crimson. Next to P. imberbis, Steud., but easily distinguished.

  1. Lobelia mucronata, n. sp., perennis, caule simplici erecto, glabro, infra folioso, supra nudo; foliis lineari-lanceolatis, elongatis, acuminatis, argute denticulatis; floribus laxe spicatis; bracteis linearibus glanduloso-dentatis, inferioribus pedicellum superantibus, superioribus eum aequantibus; calycibus hemi^phaericis et pedicellis hirtis; iobis calycis subulatis tubum duplo superantibus, tubum corollae dimidium aequantibus; lobis corollae superioribus lanceoktis, inferrioribns ovatis nuecronatis.

    Cosihuiriachi along rivulets; flowers in September. Stem 1 to 2 feet high; racemes short, few (3 to 12) flowered; color of flower darker red than in L. cardinalis, more like L. fulgens; distinguished from all similar ones by the short lobes of the calyx, and the ovate mucronate lower segments of the corolla.

    I insert here the description of a nearly related species from the country below Monterey.

    Lobelia phyllostachya, n. sp., glabra, caule erecto, folioso; foliis lanceolatis, acuminatis, irregulariter dentatis s. inferioribus subintegris; spica infra foliosa, elongata, densiflora; bracteis serrulatis, inferioribus florem longe superantibus, superioribus pedicello longioribus; calycis glabri laciniis subulatis corollam vix aequantibus s. ea brevioribus; laciniis corollae superioribus linearibus, inferioribus lanceolato-linearibus, acuminatis.

    Swamps between Monterey and Cerralbo; flowers in May. Near L. texensis Raf., but distinguished by its entire smoothness by the long (6 to 12 inches,) thick and foliaceous spike, and by the shorter segments of the calyx.

  2. Lobelia pectinata, n. sp., caule erecto, scabriusculo, folioso; foliis, bracteis et lobis calycinis pectinato-dentatis, scabris; foliis inferioribus oblongo-linearibus sessilibus, superioribus e basi lata cordata, decurrente angustatis; racemo elongato densifloro, bracteis florem subaequantibus; calycis tubo turbinato pedicellum aequante, lobis duplo breviore; tubo corollae brevi, lobis superioribus lanceolatis, inferioribus ovatis, ad medium coalitis; antheris styloque inclusis, 2 inferioribus apice barbatis.

    Cosihuiriachi in moist places; flowers in September. Annual (?) 1 to 11/2 foot high; leaves about 1 inch long;spike dense 4 to 6 inches long, blue flowers 6 lines long; tube with 3 slits about the middle

  3. Eriognonum atrorubens, n. sp., perennis, foliis radicalibus petiolatis, lanceolatis, elongatis, villosis; caulis glabri glauci internodiis superne tumidis, clavatis; caule iteratim dichotomo, ad bifurcationes bracteis subulatis pilosis instructas involucrum alarem elongato-pedicellatum gerente; involucris campanulatis 5-dentatis, margine pilosis, multifloris.

    Cosihuiriachi on the banks of streamlets, flowers in September. Perennial, 4 to 2 feet high; leaves all radical, 5 to 6 inches long, 9 lines wide,

  4. "Phaseolus bilobatus, n. sp., caule prostrato, pilis retrosis hispido; foliolis adpresse pilosis reticulatis, lateralibus subsessilibus inaequaliter bilobatis, terminali petiolulato, lineari-oblongo; pedunculis folia longe superantibus multifloris; culycis hirsuti laciniis subulatis tubum aequantibus; leguminibus compressis, hirsutis, curvatis; seminibus laevibus

    Common about Cosihuiriachi, flowers in September. Resembles Ph. leiospermus, T. and Gr., but the brown-red flowers, and legumes mucn smaller; shape of the leaves very characteristic. Legume 9 lines long and 1 line wide, seed very small.