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Cressa Cretica, Linn. Guaymas, near salt water. (303.) 



Cuscuta umbellata, HBK. About Guaymas, upon species of 

 Boerhaavia. (173.) 



Cuscuta Americana, Linn. With small flowers and entire scales, 

 as in C congesta, Benth., from Acapulco, which is referred to this 

 species. About Guaymas. (331.) 



Cuscuta (Eugrammica) Paliieri. Very slender: umbels soli- 

 tary or in loose fascicles, few-flowered, the pedicels about equalling 

 the flowers : calyx subcampanulate, acutely lobed, about half as long 

 as the corolla-tube ; corolla white, persistent, 1^ lines long, the lobes 

 equalling the tube, lanceolate, subacuminate, becoming reflexed : sta- 

 mens half as long, the filaments rather stout ; scales very short, del- 

 toid, fimbriate : styles slender, the longer equalling the stamens : 

 capsule globose, small (% line broad), breaking away at base. — At 

 Los Angeles Bay, very common, covering prostrate Euphorbias, etc., 

 and forming sheets several yards in extent. (544.) 



Solancji nigrum, Linn., var. nodiflorum, Gray. " Yerba 

 mora"; the young leaves and tops are much used by the Indians in 

 cooking. At Muleje and Guaymas. (9.) 



Solanum Hindsianum, Benth. Erect, very thorny, 3 to 6 feet 

 high ; flowers light to dark purple. " Perhaps distinct from S. elce- 

 agnifolium" (Gray). Guaymas. (109.) 



Physalis pubescens, Linn. Muleje and Guaymas. (14.) 



Physalis angulata, Linn. ? Flowers yellow with brown base; 

 fruit edible. About gardens at Guaymas. (G22.) 



Physalis angulata, Linn., var. Linkiana, Gray. Stem succu- 

 lent, 3 feet high ; flowers " white with green centre" ; fruit fleshy 

 and edible. At Guaymas. (175.) 



Physalis ? Resembling an entire-leaved P. pubescens, but 



the pedicels elongated ; fruit tinged with purple when ripe, sometimes 

 eaten and used in cooking. Rocky ridges, in shade, at Los Angeles 

 Bay. (561.) 



Physalis ? Prostrate, very finely pubescent, the upper side 



of the small ovate to rhombic-lanceolate irregularly blunt-toothed 

 leaves nearly glabrous: calyx-teeth deltoid; corolla 6 lines broad, 

 yellow with dark brown centre : anthers yellow : fruiting calyx 

 puberulent, subglobose with open orifice, 6 to 8 lines long, equalling 

 the pedicel. — Guaymas. (94.) 



Physalis ? Flowers in the dried specimens purplish blue, 



but described as " drab with wood-colored centre." Under shaded 

 cliffs in the mountains about Guaymas. (G21.) 



