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Box Springs; Temecula; Coast Range at least to the Santa 
Margarita River. 
This variety is the common form of the species in Southern 
California; only near the summit of the Cajon Pass have I seen 
plants basilar branched as defined by Engelmann and figured in 
Pac RRS Rept., iv. -t., 13°65: 
GILIA (DACTYLOPHYLLUM) MACULATA. 
Inch high, diffusly branched from the base, sparsely pubescent; 
leaves entire, two lines long, broadly linear, thick and strongly 
carinate, obtuse, acerose; earlier flowers nearly sessile in the 
lower forks, later ones crowded above; calyx-lobes nearly equal, 
much like the leaves, but with a narrow hyaline margin, ciliate ; 
the narrowly campanulate tube of the corolla not exceeding the 
calyx, the limb rotate, 2 lines wide; filaments inserted on the 
base of the tube; anthers exserted; seeds few. 
Borders of the Colorado desert, at Agua Caliente, San Diego 
Co. W. G. Wright. 
Near G. demissa, Gray, from which it differs in its entire 
leaves, obtuse and ciliate calyx-lobes, narrower corolla, and ex- 
serted anthers. 
Varieties of Ranunculus abortivus, L. 
In the list of Plants of Arkansas, by John C. Brannar and F. 
V. Coville, (Ark. Geol. Survey, Vol. iv. p. 155), we find recorded 
three varieties of Ranunculus abortivus; viz., grandiflorus, 
Engelm., Harvey, Gray, and micranthus (Nutt.), Gray. Two of 
these are credited to the writer and the third, though not credited, 
was also collected by him. It may be interesting to botanists to 
know that the varieties grandiflorus, Engelm., and Harveyt, Gray, 
are the same form, specimens having been sent to Drs. Gray 
and Engelm. and independently named by them. The first ap- 
pearance of this form in print, so far as the writer knows, was in 
“Patterson’s Check List,” as R. abortivus, var. Harveyt, Gray. 
Specimens were sent to both about the same time, but so far as 
I'can remember to Dr. Gray first. The writer had some cor- 
respondence about this form with Dr. Watson, thinking it must 
be a distinct species from R. abortivus, an opinion he is still in- 
clined to hold from a knowledge of the plant in the field. It 
