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icels 1-3 mm. long, biacteate in the middle : calyx clavate, 

 conspicuously nerved, teeth broad, more conspicuous than 

 the intermediate processes: petals purple, 3-4 lines long, 

 oblong-ovate: stamens 12 in two sets, the longer ones op- 

 posite the calyx teeth: ovary embraced by a thickened ring; 

 style as long as ovary: seed smooth, ovate, flattened. A 

 handsome species, first collected by Walter E. Bryant. — 

 Comondu, San Jorge. 



Zauschneria Californica Presl. — Santa Maria. 



JussiZEA OCTONERVIA Lam. -— Comondu, Purisima. 



EuLOBUS Californicus Nutt. — Comondu. 



(Enothera SCEPTKOSTIGMA, Aiinual, low and sprending, 

 somewhat appressed-pubescent: leaves narrowly lanceolate 

 in outline, 2-4 inches long, irregularly cleft nearly to the 

 mid-rib into numerous slender, sometimes lobed segments: 

 flowers sessile, as long as the leaves: throat of the calyx 4 

 mm. long, funnelform, orange-colored, closed at the base: 

 petals an inch long, bright yellow: ovary ridged, 2-3 inches 

 long, tapering from the base, the upper half closed as in g 

 Taraxia, but bearing abortive ovules to the summit: stigma 

 cylindrical, much longer than the oblong anthers. — Yery 

 showy and fragrant, opening its flowers at nine or ten 

 o'clock in the morning; and covering with a bright carpet 

 large portions of the sandy soil along the southern coast. 

 In damper situations it sends out lateral stems several 

 inches in length. — San Gregorio, February. — Collected also 

 by Dr. Edward Palmer at Lagoon Head, March G-15, and 

 recognized as a new species by Dr. Vasey and Mr. Bose, 

 who, however, on the receipt of named specimens from the 

 writer, courteously adopted the MS. name tliere given. 



(Enothera trichocalix Nutt. — El Kosario. 



(Enothera triloba Nutt. — Water-holes, San Julio, San 

 Jorge. 



