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Ih inches in length. The fruit is red, 1-5 seeded. — San 

 Julio, Las Huevitas. 



RiBES LEPTANTHUM Gray. A form of this species with 

 smaller flowers and shorter calyx lobes. — El Rancho Viejo. 



TiLL.EA MINIMA Mlers. — Magdalena Island, San Jorge. 



Cotyledon attenuata Watson. — Las Huevitas, San Quin- 

 tin. . 



Cotyledon pulyerulenta Benth. & Hook. — San Benito 

 and northward. 



Cotyledon edulis Brewer. — Leaves of a species resem- 

 bling this on Magdalena and Santa Margarita Islands. 



Cotyledon, sp.— Calm alii. 



Cotyledon rubens. Slightly pulverulent, nearly acaules- 

 cent: leaves 2-3 inches long, lanceolate, one-half inch wide 

 at base: stems 4-6 inches high: bracts few, auriciilate- 

 clasping, broadly linear, acuminate: inflorescence a small 

 panicle, 2-3 inches long: pedicels shorter than the flowers: 

 calyx teeth broadly lanceolate, longer than the tube : corol- 

 la dull red, contracted at mouth, with lobes one-third the 

 length of the tube. — A small species growing on clifi's near 

 San Esteban. 



Rhizophora Mangle L. '' Mangle."— Covers large areas 

 of shallow water about Magdalena and Santa Margarita 

 Islands and along the lagoons to San Jorge. It does not 

 grow about the San Gregorio Lagoon. 



Ammannia latifolia L. — Comondu 



Lythru3I alatum L. var. linearifolium Gray. — Cajon de 

 Santa Maria. 



Lythrum Bryanti. Annual, glabrous, a foot high or less, 

 branching freely: leaves alternate, broadly linear or some- 

 what lanceolate, narrowed at the base, about as long as the 

 internodes; stipules minute: flowers usually solitary: ped- 



