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corolla small, greenish: pod purplish, soft-pubescent, thin- 

 bladdery, | inch long by J inch thick, obtuse at both ends, 

 neither suture intruded, not stipitate. 



Cape San Quentin, Lower California, May 10, 1885, grow- 

 ing on the tops of the bleakest sand-hills, near the sea, ex- 

 posed to the incessant winds of that point of the coast; the 

 stems, of uncertain length, alternately buried and uncovered 

 by the loose shifting sands. 



Lyonothamnus asplenifolius. 



Leaves opposite, minutely stipulate, coriaceous, pinnately 

 parted into 3 — 5 linear- lanceolate, remote segments, which 

 are two inches long, and pinnatifid with many rounded lobes : 

 calyx, corolla, stamens, etc., as in the typical species: car- 

 pels two, ovate, and, although not yet mature, almost woody, 

 each (perhaps parting into two valves when mature) about 

 4-seeded: seeds pendulous, membranaceous-winged. 



Santa Cruz Island, off Santa Barbara; Mr. Barclay Haz- 

 ard, 1885. A most beautiful tree, with ample, fern like, 

 shining foliage, and a red-brown bark, easily torn off in 

 long strips. The inflorescence and young foliage show some 

 of the soft pubescence, which is more plentiful on L. flori- 

 bundiis. The fruit of this species, although not yet ripe, as 

 well as the stipules, confirm the genus in Rosacece, and show 

 it to be rather too near Vauquelinia; really a section of it. 



(Enothera (Chylismia) Cedrosensis. 



Branching from the base, a foot or two high: hirsute- 

 puberulent and slightly viscid-glandular: leaves simple, 

 ovate or more elongated, somewhat cordate at base, re- 

 pandly toothed, short-petioled: calyx-tube narrowly funnel- 

 form, a half inch long: petals 2 — 3 lines long, cream-color, 

 changing to rose: capsule an inch long: pedicel only a line 

 or two long: seed ovate and a little angular. 



Collected on Cedros Island by Dr. Veatch, in 1859, and 

 recently by the writer, in a single specimen, on a hillside 



