410 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



239. AuDiBERTiA Palmeri, Gray, Bot. Cal. i. 601. — 

 Widely dispersed, the bushes large and well formed, but 

 seldom met with, never growing in masses. 



240. Stachys acuminata. — Stems 2 — 3 feet high, from 

 rootstocks, retrorsely scabrous or hispid on the very acute 

 angles: leaves ovate-acuminate, or triangular-lanceolate, 

 mostly cordate, coarsely crenate, 2 — 3 inches long, on pet- 

 ioles of an inch or more, deep green and glabrate above, 

 velvety -canescent beneath: spike naked, a foot or two long 

 in age, the 4 — 6 flowered verticils an inch apart: calyx-teeth 

 triangular, spine- tipped, less than half as long as the cam- 

 panulate tube: corolla light purple, more than a half inch 

 long, tube well exserted; lower lip about 4 lines long. 

 Among loose rocks of the northward slope: flowering in 

 July. 



241. Plantago major, Camerarius, Epit. 261 (a. d. 

 1586); Linn. Sp. PI. 112 (a. d. 1753).— Near Prisoner's 

 Harbor Landing. 



242. Plantago patagonica, Jacq. Ic. Ear. t. 306. 



243. Eriogonum grande, Greene, Pittonia. i. 38.— All 

 parts of the island. 



244. Eriogonum rubescexs, Greene, 1. c. 39. — Sandstone 

 clifts, at the western end. 



245. Eriogonum arborescens, Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad, 

 i. 11. — Common on hillsides of the northward slope, and in 

 precipitous rocky places of all the canons; about six feet 

 high when well grown, shrubby and evergreen, forming a 

 rounded and compact bush. 



246. EuMEX SALiciFOLius, AVeinm. DC. Prod. xiv. 47. 



247. Kumex crispus, Linn. Sp. PI. 335. 



248. Eumex maritimus, Linn. 1. c. 



249. Eumex conglomeratus, Murr. Prod. Fl. Goett. 52. 



