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upper third: seeds 2, large, ovoid, slightly flattened, pubes- 

 cent, caruncle minute, hardly lobed. — Comondu. 



Krameria parvifolia Benth.— Magdalena and Santa Mar- 

 garita Islands. 



Kramerlv. Bico LOR Watson. The specimens are without 

 fruit, but appear to be the same as Palmer's No. 37, 1885. 

 The bush is, however, different in habit and lies prostrate 

 upon the ground, with leaves and flowers at the ends of the 

 branches. 



Frankenia grandiflora Cham. & Schlecht. — El Eosario. 



Frankenia Palmeri Watson. — San Gregorio, El Eosario. 



Cerastium, sp. — Growing under rocks in San Julio Canon. 

 Plants very weak and straggling: seeds rough. Perhaps a 

 form of some described species. 



Drymaria viscosa Watson. Growing in sandy soil.-- 

 Magdalena Island, San Gregorio. 



Drymaria crassifolia Benth. D. Veatchii Curran, Proc. 

 Cal. Acad., 2d Ser. , Vol. I, 227. Prostrate, spreading and 

 very variable, some of its varieties perhaps including 

 D. holosteoides Benth., from Cape San Lucas, described as 

 closely related. — -Magdalena Island, Purisima. 



Drymaria debilis. Annual, erect, a span high, sparingly 

 branched, with scattered rather long hairs throughout: 

 leaves 6-8 mm. long, and often as broad, acuminate, sub- 

 cordate or cuneate at base, tapering into a petiole longer 

 than the blade: flowers few on pedicels an inch long or less: 

 sepals ovate acuminate, hardly nerved, a line long, shorter 

 than the bifid petals: capsule longer than the sepals, 10-20 

 seeded: seeds minutely roughened. — Purisima. 



TissA DiANDRA (Guss.)— Pozo Grande. 



TissA MACROTHECA (Hornem.) — Socorro. 



TissA RUBRA (L.) — San Gregorio. 



