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834. BiGCutella Californica 11. & H. Mr. Watson tliinlis this may bo distinct 

 iroiii n. (,'alifoniica. Dr. Piilmer reports it very coninioii on tlio sandy liilk 

 and i.hiin near the beaeli. Tlio " yellowiuli wliitf^" becoming purple io 



drying. 



815. Arabis pectiuata (Jreene. Pitt. I. 287. Tliis recently described species of Mr. 

 Greene \v;i8 collected this season by Lioiiteiiaut Potid at San Bartoh>me 

 Bay and also on Codros Island by Dr. Palmer. Collected on sandy spot 

 among bills 40 miles back from the ocean. '■ Bloom white changed to mauve 

 by age." 



821. Sisymbrium Braudegeana Kose, n. sp. Annual, glabrous, slender, simple 

 or branching, (> to I.') inches high: leaves small (1 to 2 inches long), 

 pinnately divided into a few liliforin segments: petals one and one-half 

 lines long, twice the length of the sepals, white: pods three-fourths of an 

 inch long, terete, horizontal, or sometimes becoming retlexed, sometimes 

 straight but mostly curving upward, tipped with a thick, obtuse style (one 

 line long), on short pedicels. Connnon in sliady soil about the beach. 



767. Drymaria'viscosa Watson. Proc. AnuT. Acad., XX, 407. A very counnon 

 plant on sandy idaces near the ocean. The plants grow in great mats cov- 

 ering the sand. Only before collected by Mr. C. K. Oreiitt iii northern 

 Lower California and by Mr. Uraudegee at Magdalena Island and San Gre- 

 goria. Dr. Palmer has collected a large qi:antity of this plant. 



765. Erodium Texaiium Gray. Common on gravelly hills. 



818. Fagonia Californica I'.enth. Grows among rocks in a canon :?0 miles inl.and- 



827. The sanic!. Hut three jiiants found on the lulls near the beach. 



829. Phaseolus filiformis Uenth. Very common on the sand hills near the beach. 



797. Lupinus Arizonicus Watson. Common on tlio saud plains back of the beach. 

 Some tlowers are white, others are drab-colored. 



790. Calliandra Californica IJenth. 



776. Astragalus triflorua Gray. Very abundant near the heach. 



791. Hosackia glabra Torr. A very common plant 40 miles inland, grows com- 



pact. 



777. Hosackia maritima Nntt. Samly, level places, 15 miles from the sea; bloom 



yellow, 



820. Hosackia rigida Benth. Stems flexuose, mnch branched at base; leaves 

 sessile, with small leallets. Peduncles long ('2 to 4 inches). Pods almost 

 terete, U to 2 inches long. Pound in a canon :50 miles inland. The plant 

 most resembles Palmer's (17r>), 187G, from Arizona. 



813. H. Bryauti I'.ran(li'gee. Proc. Cal. Acad., 2(1. ser. II, 144. 



769. CEuothera crassifolia Greene. Bull. Cal. Acad., 1. 150. Stems annual or 

 biennial, glabrous and very glancous; leaves linear or narrowly lanceolate, 

 entire or si nuately toothed. Capsule linear, much contorted. We Iiave not 

 seen Mr. Greene's type, but the plant does md, seem to be the same as 

 Orcutt's spccimen.s. Very common on the sand hills and depressions near the 

 beach. " Showy colored tlowers," more or less purplish on drying. 



772. CEnothera-septrostigma Braudg. Proc. Cal. Acad., 2nd. ser. II, 15«). Sandy 



plains; 10 miles inland. Part of type. 

 771. CEuothera augelorum Watson. Proc. Amer. Acad., XXIV. 49. Forty 



miles inland. 

 768. Filago Arizonica Gray. 



773. Vigiriera Purisimae Brandigee. 2d. .ser. II. 173. 



Frauseria dumosa Nntt. This is the same :is Palmer's .559 (from Loa Angeles 

 Bay, I8H7). The leaves are much moni coarsely cut, and the spines luudly 

 tlattened and hooUed at tip. A compact plant 2 feet high, abundant on the 

 hills iu>ar the .sea. 

 770. Franseria Bryanti Curran. 



