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CATALOGUE OF SPECIES. 93 



with all of them, the following artificial key to our four commoner species may l>o 

 found useful: 



Leaves gradually expanding from a narrow base to a blade several times broader 

 above Kmizia tridentata 



(Additional characters: pistils 1 or 2; fruiting style not exceeding 7 

 mm. long, its hairs very short and close; flowers yellow.) 

 Leaves with linear, petiole-like blade and linear lubes. 



Fruiting style as above Kvnzia glandulosa 



(Additional characters: leaves 10 mm. or less long; pistils 1 or 2; 

 calyx-tube minutely densely tomentose, its glands, if any, sessile; 

 ilowers yellow.) 

 Fruiting style 25 to 50 mm. long, plumose with hairs about IX nun. long. 



Pistils 5 to 10; flowers cream-colored Cowania mexicana 



(Additional characters: leaves 12 mm. or less long.) 



Pistils about 50 to 100 ; flowers pure white Fallugia paradoxa 



(Distinguished further from all the others by its calyx, subulate-appen- 

 diculate between the lobes, and by its leaves, often 2 cm. long and 

 with brown hairs, stellate beneath when young.) 



Kunzia tridentata (Pursh) Fl. i. 333 (1814), under Tigarea; Spreng. Anleit. ed. 2. ii. 

 869 (1818). Type locality, " In the prairies of the Rocky-mountains and on the 

 Columbia river." 



This is the Purskia tridentata of most authors. Specimens were collected by Mr. 

 Bailey on the Beaverdam Mountains of Utah (No. 1946). Dr. Merriam has reported 

 Kunzia from many poiuts along his route from Colorado to the Sierra Nevada. The 

 majority of these localities probably are those of K. glandulosa, but the lack of speci- 

 mens prevents positive identification. The localities are as follows: White Moun- 

 tains of California, Mount Magruder, Cold Mountain, Timpahute, Pahranagat, Hyko 

 Pahroc, and Juniper Mountains of Nevada, and the Upper Santa Clara Valley and 

 Beaverdam Mountains of Utah. 



Coleogyne ramosissima Torr. PL Frem. 8 (1853). Type locality, "sources of 

 the Mohave and Virgin Rivers, tributaries of the Colorado of the West, in the moun- 

 tains of Southern California." 



This plant was abundant in the upper altitudes of the Lower Sonoran zone almost 

 throughout the Mohave Desert region. It was found between Victor and Daggett; 

 at Copper City Spring and along the southwestern base of Pilot Knob ; on Lone 

 Willow Peak, from 1,100 to 1,825 meters; on the western slope of the Charleston 

 Mountains, beginning at 1,035 and 1,300 meters; in the Funeral Mountains, west of 

 Amargosa, beginning at 1,235 meters; between Cottonwoood and Vegas springs; in 

 Johnson Canon, at 1,700 and 1,860 meters; in Willow Creek and Mill Creek canons 

 Panamint Mountains; and on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada near Lone Pine, 

 its upper limit at L890 meters. Dr. Merriam found it on Hungry Hill Summit, 

 Timpahute, Desert, and Pahranagat mountains, and in Pahranagat Valley, Nevada; 

 and in the Beaverdam Mountains and the Santa Clara Valley, Utah. 



Chanieebatia foliolosa Benth. PL Hartw. 308 (1839). Type locality " in monti- 

 bns Sacramento. - ' 

 Valley of the Kaweah River (No. 1307). 



Cercocarpus intricatus Wats. Proc. Amor. Acad. x. 346 (1875). Type locality 

 "on rocky mountain sides near the mouth of the American Fork Canon in the Wah- 

 satch." 



Mr. Marcus E. Jones considers this plant a variety of C. ledifolim*. 



1 For further notes see Zoe ; ii. 14 (1891), ii. 245 (1891), and iii. 298-300 (1893). 



