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other species, being much narrower, approaching those of C. minor. 

 The lower part of the stem is very leafy, the leaves becoming 1 dm. 

 long, the rhachis and divisions 0.5-2 mm. broad. The type and all 

 specimens are in hb. Univ. Calif, except a small part of a flowering 

 branch in bb. Gray and perhaps also in hb. U. S. Nat. Mus., collected 

 by Lyman Belding no. 4, at Laguna, Lower California, altitude 915 m. 

 The specimens from hb. Univ. Calif, were kindly loaned by T. S. 

 Brandegee and H. M. Hall. The species has been found only in 

 Lower California and at the following localities : San Jorge, San 

 Estaban, Sierra de Laguna, Sierra de San Francisquito, San Jose del 



Cabo. 



34. C. affinis H. & A., perennis herbacea; caule simplici piloso- 

 hispido 3-6 dm. alto ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis trinerviis integris raro 

 pinnatisectis ; floribus subracemosis, inferioribus pedunculatis, superi- 

 oribus confertis ; bracteis similibus foliis brevioribus ; calycis segmen- 

 ts acute bilobis ; corolla calycem superanti et valde divaricate exserta ; 

 labio inferiore exserto protuberanti. — Bot. Beech. 154 (1833) ; Benth. 

 in DC Prodr. x. 532 ; Gray in Bot. Cal. i. 573, and Synop. Fl. N. Am. ii. 

 pt. 1, 296 ; Hemsl. 1. c. 460. — This species is distinctively Californian 

 and peculiar to the coast region. It varies extremely in foliage and 

 flowers but can scarcely be divided into varieties. The Mexican speci- 

 mens in hb. Gray are all from the coast of Lower California, — Todos 

 Santos Island, A. W. Anthony, no. 198 ; San Quentin, E. Palmer, no. 

 642, coll. of 1889. 



35. C. minor Gray, annua vel perennis glandulosa et sparse pilosa ; 

 caulibus simplicibus vel ramosis 1-plurimis 3-6 dm. altis gracilibus 

 foliosis ; foliis anguste linearibus apice attenuatis 2-5 cm. longis ; flori- 

 bus racemosis, pedicellis brevibus filiformibus rectis ; bracteis termina- 

 libus fasciculatis apice coloratis anguste linearibus et attenuatis ; 

 calyce subfalcato in altitudinem 1.5 cm. fisso, laciniis 2 filiformibus 

 1-5 mm. longis ; galea et labio e fissura exsertis, galeae dentibus trian- 

 gularibus coccineis exsertis ; capsula anguste ovoideo-cylindracea acuta. 



-Gray in Bot. Cal. i. 573 (1876), and Synop. Fl. N. Am. ii. pt. 2, 295. 

 C. affinis, var. minor Gray in Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv. 119. 

 C. affinis Seemann, Bot. Voy. Herald, 323, not H. & A. — New 

 Mexico -beds of exsiccated streams near the copper mines, Wright, 

 no. 1494 (type, in hb. Gray). Chihuahua : C. V. Hartman, no. 583 

 (Lumholtz Exped.) ; Bigelow ; Wright, no. 1493 ; Presidio del Norte, 

 Sckott. Sonora: LosAnimos, Thurber, no. 330; T u bac, Parry ; Santa 

 Cruz Mountains, Captain E. K. Smith. N. TV. Mexico, Seemann, 

 distributed as C. affinis. This species has more slender flowers than 

 its allies. At the summit of the stem the bracts and flowers are 



