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section where plants of the coast range flora would not be expected. 

 Only foliage was seen, the reproductive season being past, but there 

 is no doubt of the identity. The plants are slender and erect, and 

 the leaves, although thin, are not membranaceous. 



LupiNUS SiTGREAVESii, Watsou, Proc. Am. Acad. 8. 527. BluflT 

 Lake, in the San Bernardino Mountains, at 7,400 ft. alt. Miss 

 Pettibone. 



Euphorbia arenicola. Anisophylli; annual, with prostrate 

 stems ; leaves distant, thin, glaucous, ovate-lanceolate, entire, 2 

 mm. long ; stipules short, setaceous, entire, or few-cleft ; involucres 

 solitary, broadly campanulate, ciliate, 2-3 mm. long ; glands 4, 

 sessile, emarginate and concave, yellow ; capsule depressed-globular, 

 2 mm. long and as broad, strongly deflexed ; seed ovate, smooth, 

 ash -colored. 



Sand hills in the Mojave Desert at Camp Cady, May, 1882, 1370 

 Parish. Distributed as E. cuspidata, Engelm MS., a preoccupied 

 name. 



Ceanothus Greggii, Gray, PI. Wright, ii. 28. Cushenberry 

 Springs, on the desert base of the San Bernardino Mountains, May, 

 1882, 1620 Parish. Leaves elliptical, 6-8 mm. long, all spinosely 

 few-toothed. 



Sidalcea nitrophila. Root thick but not lignescent ; the 

 whole plant glabrous except the leaves and calyx, which are very 

 sparsely hirsute with short, simple hairs ; leaves mostly broad, thin, 

 orbicular, sharply and irregularly toothed, 6-18 mm. wide, on 

 petioles 3-5 cm. long; stems few, 15-20 cm. high; inflorescence 

 paniculate with few and short branches ; flowers rather distant, on 

 pedicels 4-6 mm. long, which are subtended by short and slender 

 bifid bracts ; corolla 8 mm. high, light-purple ; stamineal phalanges 

 indistinct; mature carpels entirely smooth, 2 mm. high, their 

 short, subulate beaks erect. 



In alkaline meadows at Rabbit Springs, alt. 3,000 ft., in the 

 Mojave Desert, May, 1886, 1804 Parish. 



Nemophila sepulta. Hirsute; stems 5-8 (rarely 15) cm. 

 long, procumbent ; leaves usually approximate, opposite, oblong in 

 outline, 12 mm. (rarely 5 cm.) long, the lower half narrowed into 



