PLANTS OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. 89 



Mt.; Cuyaraaca Mt.; Descanso. Apparently not extending inland 

 beyond the summit of the Coast Mountains. Flowers in May and 

 June, and sparingly in autumn. 



Lathyrus laetiflorus Greene, Eryth. i. 105. Clambering 

 over shrubs; common on mesas and hills along the intra-montane 

 base of the San Bernardino and San Gabriel Mountains below 

 3,000 ft. alt. Pasadena, McClatchie; San Bernardino. Flowers 

 in March to May ; strictly vernal ; the stems dying down to the 

 perennial root after fruiting. 



Viola lobata integrifolia Wats. ; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Cal. i. 

 57. Growing in small basins on the mountain-sides in coniferous 

 forests near the Stonewall Mine in the Cuyamaca Mts. With the 

 species, and more abundant than it. Some specimens show lobate, 

 entire and transitional leaves on the same plant. 



Eulobus Californicus Nutt.; Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 514. The 

 radical leaves of this plant form a prostrate rosette at the base of 

 the stem, and are 6-8 inches long, lanceolate, and runcinately pin- 

 natifid. They are formed early in the season and disappear, before 

 the plant begins to flower. 



Sphaerostigma rutila. (Enothera rutila Davidson, Eryth. 

 ii. 62. Big Rock Creek, on the borders of the Mojave Desert, 

 July, 1893, Dr. A. Davidson. 



Aphyllon sp. A single specimen, consisting of a short stem 

 bearing only one flower, the whole hardly an inch long, of a 

 peculiar Aphyllon, was found growing on the root of a plant of 

 Coldenia Palmeri collected in the street near the church at Palm 

 Springs. It is evidently an undescribed species, but the materia] 

 is too scanty for characterization, and the attention of collectors 

 visiting Palm Springs is called to the desirability of obtaining 

 further specimens. 



Eustoma silenifoliu:.! Salisb. Parad. Lond. t. 34. Even in 

 as recent works as Coulter's Manual of the Phanerogams and 

 Pteridophytes of Western Texas, and Britton and Brown's Illus- 

 trated Flora, Eustoma is defined as a genus of annual herbs. 

 The perennial character of the Californian species has already 



