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Opuntia, sp. — San Gregorio. 



Sesuvium Portulacastrum L. — Magdalena Island, San 

 Gregorio. 



Trianthema monogyna L. — San Gregorio. 



MoLLUGO Cambessidii Fenzl. 



Mesembryanthemum crystallinum L. — San Benito, Cala- 

 mujuet to El Eosario; common and abundant thence to San 

 Quintin. 



Arracacia Brandegei Coulter & Kose, n. sjj. Tall and 

 branching, glabrous: leaves large, twice or thrice ternate, 

 on short petioles with broad inflated sheathing base, the 

 petioles of upper leaves reduced to the sheath ; leaflets 

 broadly ovate, coarsely and irregularly serrate, mostly 2 to 

 3-lobed or even, parted, 2 to 3 in. long : umbel long-pedun- 

 cled, 8 to 12-rayed, with involucre wanting or a single oval 

 long-acuminate bract, and involucels of numerous long lin- 

 ear bractlets which are broadened at base ; rays 4 to 8 in. 

 long : pedicels an inch long : flowers purple ; calyx-teeth 

 wanting : stylopodium slender conical, from a very prom- 

 inent disc : fruit ovate to ovate-oblong, 3 to 5 lines long, 

 glabrous ; oil-tubes solitary in the intervals (occasionally 

 replaced by a group of 2 or 3 ) , two on the commissural 

 side. — Magdalena Island, January 28, 1889. 



Apiastrum angustifolium Nutt — San Sebastian, San En- 

 rique. 



CoRiANDRUM SATIVUM L. Escaped from cultivation. — Co- 

 mondu, Santa Margarita Island. 



Daucus pusillus Mx. — San Esteban. 

 Leptocaulis echinatus Nutt. — San Sebastian. 

 Eryngium sp. — San Jorge. 



Aralia scopulorum. ( Plate YIII.) Shrubby, 4-10 feet 

 high, glabrous: leaves pinnate, 3-6 inches long on petioles 



