

CATALOGUE OF SPECIES. 167 



Cressa cretica truxillensis (H. B. K.) Nov. Gen. & Sp, Hi. 119 (1818), as C. 

 truxtllensis; Cboisy in DC. Prodr. ix. 440 (1815). Type locality, "in arenosissalsis 

 Oceani Pacifici, prope Truxillo Peruvianorum." 



Valley of the Virgin River, Nevada (No. 1913). 



Cuscuta califoruica Cboisy, disc. Enum. 279 (1841). Type locality, "Nov[am] 

 Californiani. " 



This parasite was seen in the San Bernardino Valley (No. 102); in the canon of 

 Mcsqnite Spring, Funeral Mountains (No. 338); between Lone Pine and Olancha; 

 along the South Fork of Kern River; and between Havilah and Kefnville. The 

 species is parasitic on a variety of shrubs, No. 102 growing on Adenoatoma fascicida- 

 ium, No. 338 on Peuecphyllum schotfii. 



SOLANACEJE. 



Solanum douglasii Dunal in DC. Prodr. xiii. pt. L 48 (1852). Typo locality, "in 

 nova California." 

 Hall Cation, Panamint Mountains (No. 69G). 



Solanum nigrum L. Sp. PL i. 186 (1753). Type locality not given. 

 Near Visalia (No. 1256). 



Solanum xanti Gray, Proc. Araer. Acad. xi. 90 (1876). Type locality not given; 

 range, "California, through the southern and eastern parts of the State, but 

 extending to Sierra County and to Nevada, near Carson." 



This handsome plant occurred near the head of Willow Creek, Panamint Moun- 

 tains (No. 784) ; between Kernville and Havilah (No. 1064) ; and at other points 

 between the latter place and Tehachapi Canon. 



Physalis crassifolia Benth. Bot. Sulph. 40 (1844). Type locality, "Bay of Mag- 

 dalena," Lower California. 



Furnace Creek Canon, Funeral Mountains (No. 214), and Boundary Canon, Grape- 

 vine Mountains (No. 976). The fruiting calyx in our specimen is only 1.5 cm. long. 



Lycium andersonii Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. vii. 388 (1868). Type locality, « S.E. 

 part of State of Nevada." 



This shrub, which is a common and characteristic one of the Lower Sonoran zone 

 in the Mohave Desert region, although not positively distinguished in the early 

 winter, was later recorded near Swansea, at the western base of the Inyo Mountains; 

 on the Darwin Mesa (No. 879); in Saline Valley, at the mouth of Willow Creek 

 Canon ; between Keeler and Crystal Spring; at many points between Lone Pine and 

 Walker Pass; on the west slope of Walker Pass; in Tehachapi Canon; and in An- 

 telope Valley. Dr. Merriam found the plant abundantly farther north and east, as 

 follows: in Deep Spring Valley, California; Fish Lake, Oasis, Indian Spring, Emi- 

 grant, Timpahute, and Pahranagat valleys, Grapevine Canon, and Pahroc Plain, 

 Nevada; and the Beaverdam Mountains, Utah (No. 1950). 



Lycium cooperi Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. vii. 388 (1868). Type locality, "east 

 slope of Providence Mountain, in the Mohave District, California." 



This species is a stout shrub 1 to 2 meters high, with the bark of the trunk and 

 larger branches smooth and dark brown. 



Along the western part of the Mohave Desert region, from Owens Lake southward, 

 this plant was found in nearly the same localities as L. andersonii, but Tanging at a 

 uniformly higher altitude in the Lower Sonoran zone. It undoubtedly occurs at 

 many other points eastward in the desert. Specimens were collected in Wilkw 

 Creek Canon, Panamint Mountains (No. 826); on the Darwin Mesa (No. 907); near 

 Crystal Spring, Coso Mountains (No. 929) ; and in Gold Mountain, Nevada (No. 2005). 

 Dr. Merriam found the shrub also in Oasis Valley, Amargosa Desert, and Mount 

 Magruder, Nevada. 



