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plants usually referred here in catalogues and herbaria are P. 

 distans Benth. The present species may be recognized by its less 

 diffuse stems, more coarsely dissected foliage and lighter blue flowers, 

 and on examination by the wide appendages of the corolla, which 

 are not present in P. distans. 



Nemophila Menziesii Hook & Arn. var. integrifolia. Stems 

 6-8 inches long, prostrate; leaves 4-8 inches long, ovate or obovate, 

 entire, or rarely 1-2 toothed, or lobed; corolla 6 lines wide, very 

 light blue, or nearly white; calyx lobes equaling or surpassing the 

 mature capsule, this ovoid, 3' lines high. 



Open ground, head of Waterman Canon, at 4,000 ft. alt. in the 

 San Bernardino Mountains, June, 1889. 



Nemophila parviflora Dough; Benth. Linn. Tran. xvii. 

 275. San Diego, Alderson, 1895. 



Coldenia brevicalyx Wats., Proc. Am. Acad. xxiv. 62. In 

 dry sand, Palm Springs, April, 1882. Mr. Wright's No. 147 of 

 1880, type in part, was also from the Colorado Desert, probably 

 from the above station, and not from San Bernardino, as errone- 

 ously stated by Dr. Watson. 



This plant is a perennial from a stout, perpendicular, woody root; 

 stems prostrate, repeatedly dichotomous, with a loose white epider- 

 mis, readily detachable at the nodes. The root character alone is 

 sufficient to distinguish it from C. Palmeri, which has slender, 

 horizontal running root-stocks. 



Audibertia pachystachya. A. incana pachystachya Gray, Syn. 

 Fl. ii. 1. 461. One to two feet high, woody at base only; leaves 

 ovate or ovoid, 1-2 inches long, or the smaller obovate; inflorescence 

 a dense terminal spike of approximate verticils, often with short 

 lateral spikes from the axils of the upper leaves; bracts scarious, 

 ovate or oblong, half inch long, purple, exceeding the flowers; then 

 as in A. incana. 



San Jacinto Mountain, Hall. Bear Valley and Holcomb Valley, 

 in the San Bernardino Mts., at about 7,000 ft. alt. Flowers in 

 August. 



Castilleia oblongifolia Gray, Syn. Fl. ii. I. 296. Stonewall 

 Mine, Cuyamaca Mountains, June, 1897. 



