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only; the E fit rich 'turn racemosum, Watson, (which is of 

 § Pseudol'rynitzkia) and the plants of Guadalupe and Cedros 

 Islands being all excluded. 



Mohave Desert, Mrs. Curran, 1884. We have also received 

 the same from Mr. Orcutfc. That this and the two follow- 

 ing were confounded as one species is not unaccountable 

 but that the shrubby Pseudokrijniizkia which Mr. Watson 

 well named under Eritricliium, should have become associa- 

 ted with these, is rather inexplicable. 



K. Cedrosensis. 



Near the last but stouter and only sparingly branching, 

 the branches decumbent or ascending; leaves larger and 

 less setose: spikes leafy-bracted, short and somewhat glom- 

 erate at the ends of short branchlets: calyx villous-hispid 

 but not setose : nutlet solitary, smooth and shining, mottled 

 with darker brown, ovate-acuminate, the ventral face very 

 flat or even a little concave by an introflexion of the sharp 

 lateral angles, the groove open near the base, and with a 

 distinct but short bifurcation. — K. ramosissima, Gray, 1. c. 

 in part. 



Cedros Island, April, 1885. Dr. Gray's cited specimens 

 from the same locality are probably identical, although 

 none are to be found in our collection from Dr. Veatch. 

 The nutlets are very unlike those of the last, and the habit 

 of the species is quite characteristic. 



K. maritima. 



Erect, a, span to a foot high, intricately and compactly 

 branching: leaves linear, an inch long, setose with short 

 bristles: spikes elongated, with only here and there a leafy 

 bract: calyx a line long, short-bristly, not villous: nutlet 

 solitary, hardly a half line long, dark brown and shining, 

 ovate-lanceolate in outline, ventral face flat, the closed 

 groove terminating in a triangular or roundish scar. K. 

 ramosissima, Gray, 1. c. as to the plant of Guadalupe Is- 

 land. 



