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at the ends of all the branches: calyx-lobes small, foliaceous, 

 pinnately 3 — 5-parted: corolla minute, pale blue, stamens 

 scarcely exserted, capsule 2 — 4-seeded: seeds very dark, 

 closely and deeply pitted. P. plvjllomanica, var. interrupta, 

 Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., xi. 87. Syn. Fl. ii. 161. 



Lower parts of Guadalupe Island. In no wise resembling 

 the gigantic half shrubby P. phyllomanica, Gray, of the up- 

 per precipices, except as regards the pinnately-parted calyx- 

 lobes. 



Eriodictyon crassifolium, Beuth. 



Densely tomentose-villous, the hairs straight: corolla sal- 

 ver-form, twice as long as the calyx, densely villous outside: 

 seed finely about 10-striate, with innumerable minute trans- 

 verse lines. Bot. Sulph. 45. DC. Prod. x. 183. 



Common in the neighborhood of San Diego. 



Eriodictyon tomentosum, Benth. 1. c. 



Very densely white or yellowish-tomentose, the hairs 

 matted : corolla scarcely exceeding the calyx, only 2 — 3 lines 

 long, somewhat urceolate, the inflated throat contracted 

 under the minute lobes: seed-coat nearly smooth (indis- 

 tinctly favose). 



Newly collected by Mr. Brandegee in Monterey County, 

 w T here it is common. 



This and the preceding were unfortunately confounded by 

 Dr. Torrey, in the Botany of the Mexican Boundary, and his 

 view has been adopted by Dr. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. x. 331. 

 Bot. Cal. i. 518, and Syn. Fl. ii. 176, but no two species of 

 the genus are more distinct. The former is more akin to 

 E. glutinosum, as the seeds show, than to E. tomentosum. 



Eriodictyon sessilifolium. 



Six or eight feet high, the branches very leafy up to the 

 flowers, glandular and sparsely hirsute: leaves glabrous and 

 glutinous above, glandular and hirsute on the veins beneath, 



