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and somewhat tomentose between the veins, lanceolate-ob- 

 long, acutish, 3 — 5 inches long, coarsely serrate, margins of 

 serratures revolute, all closely sessile by a broad, truncate 

 or somewhat cordate-clasping base: calyx villous: corolla 

 tubular-funnelform, a half inch long, villous outside, lilac- 

 purple: seed unknown. 



All Saints Bay, Lower California, April 16, 1885; but 

 there are other specimens in the herbarium of the Academy, 

 ticketed "Southern California, May, 1876, J. M. Hutch- 

 ings," so the species occurs somewhere doubtless within the 

 limits of the State. 



Eriodictyon Lobbii. — Nama Lobbii, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. viii. 37; Bot. 

 Cal. i. 517; Syn. Fl. ii. 175. 



Specimens from Donner Lake, collected last year by Mrs. 

 Curran, present us with mature fruit, hitherto unknown. 

 The capsule is 4-valved and 4-seeded, therefore precisely 

 that of Eriodictyon, to which gen as the plant conforms other- 

 wise in its shrubby habit, resinous viscosity and wooliness, 

 as well as in the attenuation of the sepals; for, in Nama, 

 these enlarge upwards. The seed is of the same size as in 

 other species of Eriodictyon, and is closely and minutely 

 pitted. 



Heliotropium (Euploca) Californieum. 



Annual, with numerous stout, erect-spreading branches a 

 foot long: strongly strigose; hispid throughout: leaves ovate, 

 an inch long, short-petioled: corolla a half inch broad, not 

 angulate lobed: anther-tips firmly coherent: nutlets smooth 

 and glabrous. 



Mohave Desert, June, 1884. Mrs. Curran. This is doubt- 

 less the li H. convolvidaceum" of Bot. Cal. i. 521, said to have 

 been collected near Soda Lake by Dr. Cooper. It is evi- 

 dently a good species, of which the abundant rigid and harsh 

 pubescence, broad leaves, small corolla with a quite even 

 (not in the least angular) border, and glabrous nutlets, are 



