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equal rounded lobes : fifth stamen anantherous : fruit black, 2 or 3 

 Hues long. — Differing from Citharexylum in foliage, in the large 

 violet flowers, and in the calyx enveloping the fruit. The juice of 

 the fruit stains a persistent black. Mountain ravines about Guay- 

 mas. (237.) 



Bouchea dissecta. Annual, slender, erect, branched, very finely 

 puberulent or glabrate, 2 feet high : leaves thin, petiolate, ovate in 

 outline, pinnately cleft nearly to the rhachis, the narrow segments 

 entire or 1-3-toothed .: spikes slender, elongated, nearly sessile, the 

 appressed flowers about equalling the internodes ; bracts very small, 

 subulate: fruiting calyx 3 or 4 lines long, narrowly and acutely 

 toothed ; corolla white, scarcely exserted : fruit linear, 6 lines long, 

 conspicuously long-beaked. — Peculiar in its dissected leaves. On 

 rocky ridges about Guaymas. (259.) 



Vitex mollis, HBK. "Uvalama"; a small tree with fragrant 

 violet-colored flowers and black edible fruit. At Muleje. (3.) 



Hyptis Emorti, Torr., var., with leaves less tomentose. A shrub, 

 3 to 6 feet high, known as " salvia " and used for seasoning. Sandy 

 bottoms near the beach at Los Angeles Bay. (573.) 



Hyptis Palmeri. Shrubby, 6 to 8 feet high, more or less hoarv- 

 puberulent throughout: leaves petiolate, lanceolate, rounded or cuneate 

 at base, acute, crenately denticulate or the larger more coarsely toothed, 

 1 or 2 inches long: flowers in loose umbel-like very shortly pedunculate 

 axillary cymes, the upper nearly naked ; pedicels slender, 1 or 2 lines 

 long : calyx narrowly turbinate-cylindrical, white furfuraceous-puberu- 

 lent (like the pedicel), the slender teeth more than half the length of 

 the tube ; corolla lilac. — " Salvia " ; used for rheumatism. Common 

 in arroyos about Guaymas. (278.) 



Salvia privoides, Benth. At Guaymas. (320.) 



Stachys coccinea, Jacq. Near a waterfall in the mountains 

 above Guaymas. (300.) 



Plaxtago Patagonica, Jacq. On stony ridges at Los Angeles 

 Bay. (524.) 



Mirabilis tenuiloba, "Watson. A foot high or more, with flesh v 

 leaves and white flowers ; fruit globose, 2 lines in diameter. Moun- 

 tains near Los Angeles Bay. (600.) 



Mirabilis Califormca, Gray. Flowers purple. Mountains, 

 Los Angeles Bay. (001.) 



Allionia incarnata, Linn. Guaymas. (100.) 



Bqerhaavia paniculata, Rich. Rocky ledges at Guaymas. 

 (003.) 



