216 
3 dense ovate heads, about half an inch long; spikelets lanceo- 
late, 4 to 5-flowered ; glumes lanceolate, acute; achenium ovoid, 
triangular. 
New Mexico (C. Wright, No. 1947); Mexico (F. Miiller, 
without a number). 
+t Spikelets several (4 to 12) flowered. 
66. C. filiculmis, Vahl. Northumberland Co., Canada 
(Macoun), to Wisconsin and southward to Florida (Curtiss, No. 
3036) and Texas. Varies into very slender forms with small, 
single heads. 
67. C. Grayii, Torrey. (Cs setifolius, Torrey MS., and 
Clarke, l.c., xxi, p. 198.) Sandy plains along the Atlantic 
coast, Massachusetts to Florida. C. ovularis, var. tenellus, Tor- 
rey, Ann. Lyc., iii., p. 279, is a young form of this. 
68. C. Baldwinii, Torrey. North Carolina and Florida, 
(Curtiss, No. 3025) westward to Texas (E. Hall, No. 687; E 
Palmer (Flor. S. W. Texas, No. 1332); also in ballast at Camden 
(Parker.) 
69. C. Lancastriensis, Porter. Trenton, N. J.; Safe Har- 
bor, Penn., (Porter) to Alabama. Boos 
70. C. fuligineus,Chapm. Key West (Chapman; Garber.) 
_* * Umbel compound. 
71. C. Californicus, Watson. (C. speciosus, Torrey, Bot. 
Mex. Bound. Survey.) California (Fitch, in Torrey Herb.) 
72. C. Pringlet, Britton. Catalina Mountains, southern 
Arizona (Pringle.) 
73. C. ligularis, L. (Not of Chapm., S. Flora, p. 507.) South- 
ern Florida (Palmer, 1874, No. 532; Curtiss, N. A. Plants, No. 
3046); also in Mexico, the West Indies, South America and 
tropical Africa and Australia. : 
Some Californian Polypetalz. 
By E. L. GREENE. 
J DENDROMECON FLEXILE.—Six to ten feet high, tree-like, 
with numerous more or less drooping branches; leaves ovate- 
oblong to elliptical, obtuse, often mucronulate, 2 to 5 inches 
long, fleshy and glaucous, crowded on the branches, short-petio- 
