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about 2.5 cm. long; filaments about three- fourths as long as the petals; anthers 8 

 to 10 mm. long; style nearly as long as the petals; stigmas 3 to 4 mm. long; capsule 

 woody, when folly developed. 6 em. long, tapering from a base 10 or 12 mm. in 

 diameter to a slender apex, narrowly winged below at the junction of the valves, 

 each valve with a thick, prominent rib down its back; need 2 to 2.5 mm. long, nar- 

 rowly obovate, truncate at the chalaza, tuberculate, with a broad, Hat, smooth raphe. 



Type specimen iu the United States National Herbarium, No. 1627, Death Valley 

 Expedition; collected August 19, 1891, on the west side of Whitney Meadows, Sierra 

 Nevada, Tulare County, California, by B. H. Dutcher. 



The plants grew in the well-drained granitic soil that surrounds the meadows. 



Godetia bottae Spach. Monogr. Onagr. 73 (1835). Type locality, "in California 

 austral iori." 



In tin; southern Sierra Nevada (Nos. 1099, 1150). Determined by E. L. Greene. 

 The specimens of No. 1150 are insufficient for positive identification. 



Godetia purpurea (Curtis) Bot. Mag. x. t. 352 (1796), under (Enothcra; Wats. 

 Bot. Cal. i. 229 (1876). Type locality, "the western coast of North-America." 

 Tejon Canon, Sierra Nevada (No. 1216). 



Godetia williamsoni Dur. & Hilg. Pac. R. Rep. v. pt. iii. 7 (1855). Type local- 

 ity, " Fort Miller," now Millerton, Fresno County, California. 



In the southern Sierra Nevada (Nos. 1071, 1217). Determined by E. L. Greene. The 

 specimens of No. 1071 are very small, most of them less than 10 cm. high. 



Boisduvalia stricta (Gray) Proc. Amer. Acad, vii.340 (1868), under Gayophytum; 

 Greene, Fl. Fran. 225(1891). Type locality, "dry hills, Cloverdale, Sonoma Co.," 

 California. 



Near Kernville (No. 1011). This is the B. torreyi of Watson, and has been sup- 

 posed to grow only in the coast regions of Oregon and- California. Its occurrence 

 in the valley of Kern River is unexpected. 



Heterogamy heterandra (Torr.) Pac. R. Rep. iv. 87 (1857), under Qaura. Type 

 locality, "river hanks, Mokelmnne Hill, California." 



Near Port Tejon (Nos. 1170, 1181). In the Proceedings of the American Academy, 

 vol.vi, p. 3f>4 (1866), this plant was separated from the genus Gaum, and called tleter- 

 ogaura calif arnica, a name under which it has since passed. 



Circaea pacifica Asoh. & Magn. Bot. Zeit. xxix. 392 (1871). Type locality, "aus 

 der Gegend von San Francisco." 

 Valley of the Kaweah River (No. 1369). 



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Petalonyx nitidus Wats. Amer. Nat. vii. 300 (1873). Typo locality, "southern 

 Nevada." 



This species is distinguished from P. thurhcri by its petiolate (petioles 2 to i mm. 

 long) usually shining leaves, which are not uniformly reduced on the branches, and 

 the form of its inflorescence, paniculate and terminating the branches. Prom the her- 

 barium specimens that I have seen, and from my field observations, the species appear 

 distinct. P. nitidm was observed on the divide between Ash Meadows and Pahrump ; 

 on the western foot-slope of the Charleston Mountains, along the road from Winters's 

 ranch to Clark's sawmill; in Big Horn Canon, Grapevine Mountains, Nevada (No. 

 980); in .Johnson and Surprise canons, Panamint Mountains; between Keeler and 

 Crystal Spring; between Lone Pine and Olancha; and at the eastern base of the 

 Sierra Nevada, near Indian Wells. 



Petalonyx parryi Gray, Proc. Amor. Acad. x. 72 (1874). Type locality, "St. 

 George, Southern Utah." 





