198 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



All Saints Bay, Lower California; collected by the writer, 

 April 16 and May 16, 1885. Mr. Parish's 939, from S. Ber- 

 nardino Mountains, 1881, is manifestly the same in a very 

 immature condition. In this and the next the corolla is 

 open campanulate, nearly regular, and so small as hardly 

 to surpass the calyx. 



Nemacladus tenuissimus. 



Somewhat cinereous-puberulent throughout, or almost 

 glabrous, very slender: radical leaves elongated linear, re- 

 motely dentate, the cauline entire: pedicels capillary, de- 

 flexed and appearing secund: calyx-teeth ovate, less than 

 half the length of the turbinate tube, which is adnate to the 

 base of the globose, obtuse 10 — 20-seeded capsule, which 

 exceeds the calyx: seed short-oval, the favose reticulation 

 very slightly compressed. 



All Saints Bay, May 16; also in San Diego County, in 

 the Jamul Valley, C. R. Orcutt. 



Pholisma depressum. 



Stems solitary, completely covered by the rhombic-ovate, 

 or sometimes oblong, closely imbricated scales; flowers in a 

 depressed, barely convex head, an inch or two broad : sepals 

 6, linear-filiform, minutely glandular-ciliolate: corolla tubu- 

 lar-funnelform, 6-lobed, lilac-purple: stamens shorter and 

 style longer than in the typical species. 



Cape San Quentin, Lower California, May 10, 1885. The 

 fruiting specimens of the preceding year show T the head to 

 have attained, in maturing, a perfectly globose shape; but 

 the mass of flowers appears nearly flat as it lies on the sand. 

 This species is parasitic on roots of Aplopappus Berberidls. 



Gilia (Leptodactylon) Veatchii, Parry in herb. 



Shrubby and stout, a foot or two high, compactly branch- 

 ing, densely glandular-pubescent, viscid and very fragrant, 

 leaves crowded, spreading, very rigid, acerose, those of the 



