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166 BOTANY OF THE DEATH VALLEY EXPEDITION. 



times divergent; leaves linear-oblanccolate, the larger ones about 1.5 era. long, 

 divergently hirsute; inflorescence raccmiform; false racemes terminating tlio main 

 axis and the branches, in fruit 2 to 4 cm. long, secumliilorous; flowers 2 mm. long; 

 corolla minute, barely exserted from the calyx; fruiting calyx 3 to 4 mm. long, re- 

 curved; sepals linear-filiform, slightly dilated and keeled near the base, hirsute 

 with a few small hairs like those of the stem, ami hispid toward the base with stiff 

 divergent hairs half as long as the calyx; nutlet siugle, 1.5 to 1.8 mm. long, muricu- 

 late on both faces, ovate-lanceolate or ovate with an acuminatum, apex slightly 

 incurved, angles rounded, a faint median line visible on the back, the inner face 

 with a closed groove dilated into a small triangular areola at the base. 



Type specimen in the UnitedStates National Herbarium, No. 713, Death Valley Ex- 

 pedition; collected April 21, 1891, at an altitude of 800 meters, in Surprise Canon, 

 Panamint Mountains, Inyo County, California, by Frederick V. Coville. 



The sheet of No. 850, King Survey, in the National Herbarium, distributed as 

 Eritrichium anguatifolium, contains a specimen of this plant. It was collected in the 

 Trinity Mountains, Nevada, at an altitude of 5,000 feet. In the Gray Herbarium is 

 a sheet of the same plant, collected at Candelaria, Nevada, in 1886, No. 200, by W. 

 H. Shockley. Dr. Gray referred it doubtfully to C. nnguslifoiia. The species may be 

 distinguished at sight from all the related ones by its recurved fruiting calyx. 



Cryptanthe submollis (Gray) Proc. Amcr. Acad. xiii. 374 (1878), as Eritrichium 

 holoptcrum ntibmollc. Type locality, "St. George, S. Utah." 



Surprise Canon, Panamint Mountains (No. 714). This is the Kryniizhia utahetiiia 

 of Gray. The species is now for the first time reported from California. It has been 

 collected also at Yucca, Arizona, by Jones, and at Candelaria, Nevada, by Shock- 

 ley, No. 347, of 1886. 



Amsinckia spectabilis Fisch. & Mey. Ind. Sera. rctrop. ii. 26 (1835). Type 

 locality not given. 

 Near San Bernardino (No. 35). 



Amsinckia tessellata Gray, Proc. Amcr. Acad. x. 54 (1874). Type localities, 

 "Contra-Costa Mountains near Monte Diablo" "FortTejon," " near Carson City," 

 "Sierra County," "Humboldt Mountains," "and Pahranagat Mountains." 



This desert annual is confined to the Lower Sonoran zone of the desert. It was 

 seen first in the Vegas Wash, near its mouth (No. 408), and afterward was found to 

 be a common spring flower. It occurred in Johnson Canon and the wash leading 

 from it (Nob. 484, 517) ; in Surprise Canon ; near the Summit Station, on the road from 

 Mohave to Searles's ; in Mill Canon, and Willow Creek Canon, Panamint Mountains; 

 and near Crystal Spring, Coso Mountains. No. 484 only is in fruit. 



Pulmonaria sibirica L. Sp. PI. i. 135 (1753). Type locality, "in Siberia." 



Near Mineral King, Sierra Nevada (No. 1398). This is the Mertemia sibirica of 



most post-Linnaean authors. Our plant lias larger flowers and more nearly glabrous 



calyx lobes than is usual in the American plant. 



CONVOLVULACEiE. 



Convolvulus longipes Wats. Arner. Nat. vii. 302 (1873). Type locality, "south- 

 ern Nevada. " 



Between Kernville and Havilah (No. 1065). 



Convolvulus villosus (Kellogg) Proc. Cal. Acad. v. 17 (1873), under Calystegia; 

 Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. xi. 90 (1876). Typo locality, "on hillsides at Cisco, C. P. 

 K. II., 6,000 feet high on Sierra Nevada mountains." 



Near Mineral King, Sierra Nevada (No. 1441). The blades of the leaves reach 4.5 

 cm. in breadth. 



