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specting them. But this suspicion has not attached to other species 
of the list which are provided with similar means of dissemination, 
and on the other hand I find no evidence that flocks and herds have 
been brought to our coast from Chili. Certainly it is very unlikely 
that they should have been brought by water, and if by land they 
have curiously enough failed to introduce the plants in the interven- 
ing region. 
It was indeed quite natural that they should have been regarded 
as exotic when less was known concerning them than at present. 
Occasionally a specimen of some known Chilian species was brought 
from the Californian coast, with scant record of its habits or range. | 
That they were not more positively set down as intruders shows the 
wise caution of our botanical authorities. 
They are now better known and are found to be components of a 
well-marked element in our flora, which it is impossible to regard 
as other than indigenous, and from which no valid reason has been 
given for separating a part. Not one of them is a weed of the high- 
way, or is even able to persist in cultivated fields. On the contrary, 
they inhabit deserts and arid mesas, secluded nooks in the hills, 
solitary coasts or unpeopled islands. One who knows them in 
these places will require the most direct evidence té convince him 
that they are not indigenous, and in default of such evidence they 
may be admitted as belonging to the native flora of the State. 
A NEW EPILOBIUM. 
BY WILLIAM TRELEASE. 
E. Parisuu. Tall, at length stout and rather intricately slender 
branched, even from the base, glabrous below, the inflorescence and 
_capsules very sparingly, the young buds densely white-pilose or in- 
curved-pubescent; leaves rather thin but firm, all glabrous, lance- 
olate, very obtuse or the reduced flowering leaves acutish, somewhat 
unequally serrulate or denticulate, 1 to 3 in. long, gradually or 
abruptly narrowed to the slender more or less elongated petiole; _ “ 
flowers at length numerous, erect, rosy to violet, rather small; cap-_ 
sules 50-70 mm. long, their pedicels 10-20 mm.; seeds broadly _ 
_ fusiform, short-beaked, coarsely papillate, .4x 1- 1.25 mm.; coma 
7. pore white.— San Bernardino Co., Cal. (Parish, Nov. 1889, Nos. 
