248 Standley — T7ie American Species of Fagonia. 



8. Fagonia barclayana (Benth.) Rydb. N. Amer. Fl. 25 2 : 104. 1910. 

 Fagonia californica barclayana Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 10. 1844. 



Type locality, "Bay of Magdalena," Lower California. 



A dichotomously branched undershrub; stem with rather slender green- 

 ish branches, 3 to 7 dm. long, finely villous-pubernlent ; stipules subulate, 

 about 5 mm. long, spinulose, reflexed-spreading ; petioles 3 to 5 mm. 

 long; leaflets ,">, lanceolate, 8 to 20 mm. long, 2 to 5 mm. broad, finely 

 pubescent, spinulose-tipped ; peduncles 2 to 5 mm. long; sepals narrowly 

 lanceolate, 3 mm. long, spinulose tipped; petals rose-purple, about 5 mm. 

 long; blades ovate-spatulate, acutish ; fruit 4 to •"> mm. long, finely pubes- 

 cent, slightly reticulate; beak about 1 mm. long. 



Here apparently belong the following specimens from Lower California: 

 San Jose del Cabo, < >ctober 17, 1890, Brandegee SI ; Lagoon Head, March, 

 1889, Palmer 827; Agua Verde, 1911, Rose 16,604. Pemarks upon the 

 species may be found under Fagonia californica. The description is that 

 of Doctor Rydberg in the North American Flora. 



1). Fagonia californica Benth. Bot. Voy. Sulph. 10. 1S44. 

 Fagonia californica hindsiana Benth. loc. cit. 



Type locality, " Bay of Magdalena," Lower California. 



Densely branched, usually about 30 cm. high, with slender, angled 

 stems scaberulous along the angles; petioles 4 to '.) mm. long, glabrous or 

 scaberulous; stipules short, slender, spinescent, half as long as the petioles 

 or shorter; leaflets 8, glabrous, narrowly lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, spinescent tipped, the lateral ones oblique, sometimes longer than 

 the petioles and sometimes much shorter; pedicels 2 to •"> mm. long, 

 usually much shorter than the fruit, deflexed in age; sepals lanceolate or 

 ohlong-lanceolate, acute; petals purplish, •"> to s mm. long; fruit puberulent, 

 densely so when young, often nearly glabrous in age except along the 

 angles, the beak short, about 1 mm. long. 



Specimens examined : 



Utah: St. George, 1879, Palmer. 



Arizona: Gila City, Gila Mountains, March 1, 1894, Mearns 2820. 



California: Sierra Prieta near Fort Yuma, 1855, Schott; Tia Juana, 

 May 15, 1903, Abrams 3500; canyon west of Borrego Spring, April 19, 

 1906, M. E. Jones; without locality, Mexican Boundary Survey; San 

 Bernardino, 1880, S. B. Parish; Ogelby, San Diego County, March, 1901, 

 A. F. Eby; Cargo Muchacho, September 20, 1890, Orcutt 2070; Coyote 

 Canyon, altitude 1350 meters, April, 1902, H. M. Hall 2704. 



Lower California : Los Angeles Bay, 1887, Palmer 546 ; Valley of Palms", 

 April 15, 1882, M. E. Jones 3691 ; Santa Rosalia, 1889, Palmer 196; San 

 Bartolome Bay, March 14, 1911, Rose 16,235; Lagoon Head, March, 

 1889, Palmer 818. 



The species probably reaches the northwest corner of Sonora but I have 

 seen no specimens from that State, unless the Schott specimen may be 

 Sonoran rather than California!!. 



