60 Rhodora [March 



mm. longus, limbo albido erecto 5-lobato, lobis deltoideo-ovalibus 

 apiculato-acutatis 0.5-0.7 mm. longis, dentibus intermediis subnullis. 

 Petala coerulea. 



Erect glabrous perennial, scapose from a subeylindrie root about 13 

 cm. long, 0.8 cm. thick. Scape stoutish, scarcely bracted, paniculately 

 branched above the middle. Leaves oblong, oblong-obovate, or 

 obovate, rounded or retuse at the sometimes cuspidulate apex, gradu- 

 ally narrowed into the petiole, glabrous, coriaceous, thickish, veiny, 

 the blade 4.7-21 cm. long, 1.8-7.3 cm. wide, on petioles 2-9.5 cm. long. 

 Panicle pyramidal, l.b-3.5 dm. wide, the branches divergent-ascend- 

 ing, the ultimate branchlets densely flowered, forming spikes 1.3-2 cm. 

 long; spikelets nearly always 2-flowcred. Outermost bractlet orbicu- 

 lar or broadly orbicular-ovate, obtuse to acute, short-mucronate, with 

 thickish punctate herbaceous body and hyaline margin, 1.5-2.5 mm. 

 long; middle ones oblong-ovate, obtuse, hyaline; innermost elliptic- 

 obovate, apiculate, broadly hyaline-margined, 3.(5-4 mm. long. 

 Calyx narrowly infundibuliform, glabrous (rarely with a few hairs), 

 5-ribbed, 4.6-5.2 mm. long, the whitish limb erect, 5-lobed; the lobes 

 deltoid-oval, apiculate-acute, 0.5-0.7 mm. long; intermediate teeth 

 obsolescent. Petals bluish. Plate 118, fig. C. 



lAmonium californicum Small, Pull. Torr. Club xxv. 318 (1898), and 

 Fl. S. E. U. S. 900 (1903), ex char., not Stat ice calif ornica Boiss. 



California: San Diego, 187b, Palmer 216 (types in Gray Herb, 

 and Brit. Mus.); Ocean Beach, near San Diego, 17 Aug. 1894, MeartU 

 4030. 



Lower California: Playa Maria, July-Oct. 1896, Anthony 117. 



Anthony's collection of this species is of especial interest as affording 

 the first West-Mexican collection of the genus. Mearns 4030 devi- 

 ates slightly from the other collections in that some of the calyces 

 bear a very few short hairs near the middle, but, as in the case of 

 similar specimens of L. angustatum, the essentially glabrous char- 

 acter of the calyx is easily recognized and there is no danger of con- 

 fusion with the species with strongly pubescent calyx (nos. 4-9). 



4. Limonium Endlichianum (Wangerin) Blake, n. comb. Gla- 

 brous. Leaves oblong, coriaceous, 8.5 cm. long, 2.5 cm. wide; petioles 

 5.5 cm. long. Scape 3.5 dm. high, strongly branched nearly from base, 

 the primary branches flexuose-spreading, several times dichotomous, 

 the secondary curved-ascending, partly sterile, the flowering branch- 

 lets very loose, slightly elongate, recurved, the spikelets 2-flowered, 

 loose or somewhat approximate, the whole forming a very broad loose 

 broom-like panicle. Outermost bractlet ovate, acute or shortly mu- 

 cronulate, narrowly niembranaccous-margined, 2 mm. long; middle 

 hyaline, nearly 4 mm. long; inmost obtuse, usually incised at apex, 

 broadly hyaline-margined, 5-6 mm. long. Calyx 7 mm. long, long- 

 obconic, pilose at base along the two inner ribs; lobes lance-tri- 

 angular, acute, 1.5 mm. long, three times as long as the intermediate 

 teeth. Corolla bluish. 



