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for it. It cannot however, if obliquity of the fruit counts 

 for anything, be included in EcJiinoci/stis, as has been done by 

 Cogniaux, Monog. Phan. iii, 804, nor can it very well be con- 

 generic with the symmetrical-fruited E. minima (Kell.) in 

 Naudin's genus Echinopepon, as proposed by Dr. Watson. 



The following species, not included in the above list, are 

 from a small private collection made by Ensign McCormick 

 and Mr. C. H. Townsend of U. S. S. Albatross, at Cape St. 

 Lucas, San Luis Gronzales Bay, etc. 



Dalea mollis Benth. A species common throughout the 

 peninsula, and omitted by accident from the list. 



Encelia eriocephala Gray. 



Hesperocallis undulata Gray. Hardly to have been ex- 

 pected as far south as the Cape. 



Euphorbia leucophylla Benth. A rare and little known 

 species. 



From San Pedro Martir Mountain, to which place they 

 had gone on a zoological expedition, Mr. Townsend and Mr. 

 A. W. Anthony brought the following conifers : 



CuPRESSUS GuADALUPENSis Watson. Differing somewhat 

 from the type, but, according to Prof. C. S. Sargent, not 

 separable from it. 



PiNUS Lambertiana Dougl. 



PiNus PONDEROSA Dougl. var. Jeffreyi Engelm. 



PiNUS MURICATA Don. 



PiNUS Parryana Engelm. 



