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than the involucre. Muleje, on rocky hills and on sandy beaches 

 near salt water; also collected by Dr. Palmer in 1870 on Carmen 

 Island. (423.) 



Nicolletia Edwakdsit, Gray. Annual; ray white with a red- 

 dish stripe on the outer side. Common on sandy plains and stony 

 ridges at Los Angeles Bay. (4G'J.) 



Dtsodia porophtlloides, Gray. Mountain-sides, Los Angeles 

 Bay. (531.) 



Pectis prostrata, Cav. In gardens at Guaymas. (145.) 



Pectis angustifolia, Torr. The awnless form. Ravines near 

 the beach; Los Angeles Bay. (G57.) 



Pectis (Pectothrix) Palmeri. Closely resembling P. papposa, 

 but the solitary setas at the base of the leaves more slender, the 

 peduncles longer (1 or 2 inches), the longer hairs upon the achenes 

 straight and slightly thickened upward (not at all uncinate or capi- 

 tate), and the pappus merely scabrous (not barbellate). — Hillsides 

 near Guaymas. (652, 653.) What may perhaps be a form of this 

 with the pappus reduced to an irregular subfimbriate margin was col- 

 lected on a rocky island in Guaymas harbor. (655.) 



Pectis Coulteri, Gray. Low and diffuse, somewhat viscid- 

 pubescent, with leaves an inch long or less. — In gardens at Guaymas 

 and on islands in the harbor. (143, 654.) 



Pectis punctata, Jacq. In sandy ravines and high upon the 

 mountains about Guaymas. (224. 656.) 



Triciioptilidji incisum, Gray. Stony ridges at Los Angeles 

 Bay. (563.) 



Bebbia juncea, Greene. Flowers yellow, very fragrant. Sandy 

 ravines at Muleje and Guaymas. ('^•) 



Peucephyllum Schottii, Gray. A shrub, 3 or 4 feet high. 

 Stony ridges at Los Angeles Bay. (587.) 



Senecio Lemmoni, Gray. Mountain-sides near Los Angeles Bay. 

 (577.) 



Perezia Palmeri. Tall and branching, green and minutely 

 glandular-pubescent throughout: leaves thin, oblong-lanceolate, acu- 

 minate, sessile and cordate at base, very acutely dentate and denticu- 

 late, 6 inches long by 2 wide or smaller: heads few on the branchlets, 

 pedunculate, ^ inch long, many-flowered; involucre campanulate with 

 thin acute bracts, the lower ovate and subacuminate : flowers "lilac": 

 achenes glandular-puberulent. — To be grouped with P. patens and 

 P. carp/to/epis. On mountainsides near Los Angeles Bay ; rare. 

 (527.) 



