398 Flora of the Cape Region. [zoe 



Watts on the hills west of Bakersfield, and by the writer near 

 the same time and in the same general region, April-June, 1893. 



The aflEinities of this plant are with Asteroidese, of which it 

 has the style-tips and involucre with much the general habit of 

 the desert species of Aplopappus, but it differs from any of the 

 genera in its complicate-chaffy receptacle, and its pappus. The 

 western rim of the San Joaquin Valle}' yet little explored may 

 be expected to still yield many novelties. 



Lepidium Jaredi. Annual, branching, 1-2 dm. high, some- 

 what glaucous, upper part of stem and inflorescence pubescent, 

 with spreading hairs: leaves lanceolate, entire, or toothed: flow- 

 ering branches becoming elongated, often half the length of the 

 plant: pedicels terete, slender, spreading, in fruit, i cm. long, 

 and somewhat recurved; flowers bright yellow: sepals 2 mm. 

 long: petals a third longer, v.'ith oval or obovate blade and nar- 

 row claw: stamens 6, nearly equal: fruit ovate, glabrous, reticu- 

 late, 3-4 mm. wide and hardly as long, acute or barely 

 emarginate, at summit, not winged; style J2 mm. long; coty- 

 ledons incumbent. 



Collected by Mr. L- Jared near Goodwin, San Luis Obispo 

 County, April-May, 1893; ^^^ near Riverdale, Fresno County, 

 about the same lime by Mr. Alvah Eaton. 



ADDITIONS TO THE FLORA OF THE CAPE REGION 

 OF BAJA CALIFORNIA. II. 



BY T. S. BRANDEGEE. 



The following collection was made during the months of 

 September and October in the western part of the mountains of 

 the Cape Region. 



The particular localities explored were either previously 

 unexplored or had been visited at a different time of the year. 

 The rainy season of the region is in the months of July, August, 

 and September, but little rain fell about San Jose del Cabo, and 

 constquently there were comparatively small collections made in 

 its vicinity; and the same conditions prevailed over the region 



March 12, 1S94. 



