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with a close pannose tomentum; aments 3-4 1n a cluster, declined, 
2-4 cm. long; bracts scarious, connate nearly to the strongly 
mucronate tips, silky; immature fruit densely white hairy, becom- 
ing less densely hairy at maturity. 
In dry cafions on the intramontane slope of the San Antonio 
Mts. from San Gabriel * to Lytle Creek and Cajon Pass, at 1,500- 
3,500 ft. alt. Probably also includes a shrub of the desert slope 
of the San Bernardino Range; Rock Creek, Davidson, Cafion of 
the Mojave. This differs from the above in the pubesence of the 
under surface of the leaves, which is of short, straight hairs, 
becoming glabrate in age. . 
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ARBUTUS MENzIEstt Pursh; Hook. FI. 2. 36. This species, 
heretofore known in. Southern California only by a small group 
on Mt. Wilson, has been discovered in the present year in Las 
Tufias Cafion, near Santa Monica, by Dr. Hasse. ‘T‘here are but 
a few specimens, which are reduced to shrubs not exceeding 10 
ft. in height. 
Putox Douciasi Hook. Fl. 2. 73, t. 158. Summit of 
Swarthout Cajfion, 6,800 ft. alt., in the San Antonio Mountains, 
1529 1. M. Fall, June, 1900. 
‘Flowers white to clear blue, fragrant.’’ ‘The specimen ap- 
proaches very closely the var. diffusa Gray, Pro. Am. Acad. 
8,254. 
GILIA (EUGILIA) leptantha, Annual; stems slender, much 
branched, 25-30 cm. high, below loosely woolly, becoming glab- 
rous above, beset with numerous tack-shaped glands; leaves 
mostly basal, 2-3 cm. long, the thick midrib having a very 
narrow marginal blade with several linear, cuspidate, alternate 
_ tooth-like lobes, the rameal leaves reduced to minute subulate 
bracts; panicle diffuse; pedicels shorter than the calyx, or rarely 
much longer; calyx 3 mm. long, scarious, the green midribs 
prolonged as short, subulate, divergent teeth; corolla 10-12 mm. 
long, purple, the slender tube moderately dilated at the yellow 
throat; filaments at the sinuses of the corolla, and surpassing its 
* Davidson, Pl, Los. Ang. Co. 11. 
