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Amsinckia eycopsoideS Lehm.; DC. Prodr. 10: 117, and A. 

 tessellata Gray, Proc. Ara. Acad. 10: 54. 



Both these species are included in Mr. Brandegee's Santa 

 Catalina list; 34 but the specimens, which he has kindly sent me, 

 seem to be A. spectabilis F. & M., the only species I have seen, as 

 yet, from southern California. 



Monardeeea hypoeeuca Gray, Syn. Fl. 11. i:35 6 - 



The type-locality is given as "S. E. California, San Bernardino 

 Co., Parry & Lemmon." The label of the type-specimen, in 

 the Gray herbarium, does not show where it was collected, but 

 the locality quoted above is certainly an error. The plant is a 

 coast species, and has been collected at San Diego, by Orcutt, 

 and at San Juan Hot Springs, by Nevin. 



Physalis muriculata Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 1: 209. 



The type of this species came from San Quintin, in Lower 

 California, and Dr. Rydberg identifies with it a specimen from 

 "River Side, Parry, 1882. " S5 There is, I am informed, a River- 

 side Mt. on the Colorado River, below Yuma, and on the Cali- 

 fornia side of it, and from this region one reasonably might sup- 

 pose Dr. Parry's plant would come. It is certain, however, that he 

 did not visit this mountain in his later years. I am inclined to 

 believe the specimen to be one which he collected in the spring 

 of 1882, on the northern extremity of the arid rangeof hills which 

 separate Reche Canon from the plain on which the well-known 

 town of Riverside is situated. The writer has sought to redis- 

 cover it here, but without success. Dr. Parry was unable, at 

 the time, to identify this plant with any then described species. 

 In view of the conditions which determine the distribution of the 

 southern California flora, it is highly improbable that a peninsular 

 species should re-appear at the place above indicated, and as Dr. 

 Parry's plant differs, according to Dr. Rydberg, in some points 

 from Dr. Greene's type, it is perhaps not properly referable to it. 

 Physaeis Wrightii Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 10: 63. 



Dr Rydberg gives this from California on specimens collected 

 by Buckminster, and two of Lemmon's, No. 294. and No. 10 of 



