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Capsicum baccatum, Linn. A perennial, 5 feet high, with small 

 red fruit which is sent to San Francisco as " chiltepin peppers." 

 Guaymas. (136.) 



Capsicum cordiforme, Mill., var. globosum, Dun. ? A culti- 

 vated perennial, 6 feet high, with globose orange-colored fruit. Guay- 

 mas. (135.) 



Capsicum annuum, Linn. Various cultivated forms. Guaymas. 

 (137-UO.) 



Lycium Richii, Torr. Unarmed, 6 to 8 feet high ; flowers lilac ; 

 fruit edible. Like the type of L. Palmeri, Gray. At Muleje. (4.) 



Lycium Richii, Torr., var. A very thorny shrub, sometimes 15 

 feet high ; pedicels shorter ; flowers " violet" ; fruit edible. In alka- 

 line bottoms about Guaymas. (71.) 



Lycium Andersoni, Gray, var. pubescens. A shrub, 4 or 5 

 feet high, resembHng var. Wrightii, but finely pubescent, the calj^x 

 half a line and the corolla 3 lines long with a very narrow tube ; flow- 

 ers " lavender," tetramerous. the filaments glabrous : berries red. — 

 In stony ravines near Los Angeles Bay. (559.) 



Lycium bakbinodum, Miers ? A loose shrub, 5 feet high, with 

 black wood, small white flowers, and scarlet fruit. Hillsides and 

 ravines at Guaymas. (230.) 



Lycium cartnatum. A thorny glabrous shrub, 1 or 2 feet high : 

 leaves narrowly spatulate, 3 lines long or less, glaucous : pedicels 

 clavate, compressed, 2 or 3 lines long : calyx bifid, the broad acutish 

 lobes carinate ; corolla 4-lobed, white, 2 lines long, the tube very 

 short and the throat scarcely as long as the lobes : stamens 4, villous- 

 tufted at the point of insertion, equalling the corolla : fruit said to be 

 red. — " Sal sieso." In large patches near Guaymas. (178.) 



Lycium ? A shrub, 4 feet high, with woolly nodes, very broadly 

 spatulate leaves, and " white flowers." The specimens are without 

 flowers or fruit, and the reference to this genus is only a conjecture. 

 Guaymas. (337.) 



NicoTiANA TRiGONOPHYLLA, Dun. At INIuleje and on San Pedro 

 Martin Island. (18, 410.) 



NicoTiANA Clevelandi, Gray. Common at Los Angeles Bay, 

 and used for smoking by the Indians. (556.) 



jNIohavea viscida, Gray. Flowers lemon-color with brown dots, 

 the lower stamens wholly wanting in the flower examined. On stony 

 ridges at Los Angeles Bay. (597.) 



Antirrhinum cyathiferum, Benth. (^A. chytrospermiim, Gray.) 

 In gai-dens at Guaymas. (152.) 



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