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CAPPARIDACE^. 



Wislizenia refracta Eugelin. A connnDii phmt, 2 to :} feet high, in alkali soil, 

 ueur tbesea-beacb. The plant lias a fetid odor. Our plant seems to belong 

 to this species, having the trifoliate leaves and snmll frnit. It seems distinct 

 from the type of W. Palmeri, but recent Hpeciiueim referred to that species by 

 Watson and Brandegee seem to be intermediate forma uniting these species. 

 Mr. Brandegee in a recent note (Proc. Cal. Acad. 2nd Ser. II. 128) says he 

 thinks the distinction very slight. No. 88. 



Atamisquea emarginata Miers. A small tree or bush 6 to 8 feet high, with few 

 stems, but with many short lateral branches, very brittle and consequently 

 very difficnlt to make into specimens. The dowers are white and "as finely 

 scented as orange flowers." It was fonnd contiguons to the ocean, on sandy 

 mesas, just coming into bloom. No. 58. 



VIOLACEiE. 



lonidium fruticulosum Benth. Bot. Sulph, 7. This plant is quite variable in its 

 leaves. The lower part of the stem is often woody, developing «;on8iderable 

 cork and seeming a true perennial. Our specimens seem to cover both the type 

 and Gray's variety dentatn made from Xantus's No. 4. Found abundantly under 

 shade of trees. No. 84. 



POLYGALACE.SI. 



Kramerla cauescens Gray, var. paucifolia Rose, n. var. Slightly pubescent, with 

 weak spreading branches: leaves very small (1 to 2 lines long) and dis- 

 tant: sepals (3 to 4 lines long) broad, merely acute. 



Dr. Palmer collected at Guaymas and Los Angeles Bay, 1887, a plant much 

 like this in habit and foliage, but with the narrower sepals and spatulate petals 

 of the type and thus representing an intermediate form. It is proper to state 

 here that Mr. Brandegee thinks the plant should go into A', bicolor Watson. 

 While the plant has the petals and larger fruit of this species, it has dift'erent 

 pubescence, smaller leaves, broader sepals, and smaller bracts to the pedicels. 

 The following is Dr. Palmer's note : " Found upon mesas andedgesof ravines 

 among other plants, at the base of which they grow, and by which the weak 

 stems are supported, making by the many interlacing branches a thick mass, 

 which appears like a parasite. Not seen by itself. Found but one plant with 

 seed; the seed-pods had sprouted upon the plant, forming three rather fleshy 

 leaves like the leaves of the plant and of a bronze color. Flowers mauve.'^ 



No. 4. 



CARYOPHYLLACE^. 



Drymaria crassifolia Benth. Bot. Sulph. 14. Abundant on sandy beach. No. 6 of 

 Xantus. First collected by Hinds at Cape St. Lucas. No. 142. 



PORTULACACE-aB. 



Portulaca pilosa L, (?). Probably this species, but material insufficient for perfect 

 determination. Common on beach and under trees contiguous to ocean. It is 

 very tenacious of life, specimens before me having been in press for almost 

 three months and still nearly as green as when collected. No. 140. 



MALVACEiE. 



Sphseralcea Californica Rose, n. sp. Two to 4 and sometimes even 10 to 12 feet 

 high, densely stellate-pubescent, becoming somewhat glabrate below; leaves 

 triangular^oblong, 1^ to 2^ inches long, cordate or truncate at base, more or 

 less 3-lob6d, crenately-toothed, densely stellate-pubescent ; inlJoroscence open 

 paniculate; flowers orange-yellow: calyx 2 to 15^ lines long, its lobes ovate- 

 acuminate: petals .'> lines long, obovate: capsules small, depressed; carpels 



