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The umbels are all we possess of this very beautiful and 

 interesting new ally of Brodicm. They are ticketed ' ' San 

 Jose del Cabo," which means that they are from Cape St. 

 Lucas, or thereabouts, but the name of the collector is un- 

 known. The fragments have been lying in the herbarium 

 of the Academy for many years, and I had supposed, before 

 opening a perianth that the plant would be a second species 

 ^f Brevoortia. 



2. Miscellaneous Species, New or Noteworthy 



Helianthemum occidentale, Suffrutescent, a foot or 

 more high, stout and much branched; stellate-hirsute 

 throughout except the corymbose inflorescence, which is 

 more densely hirsute, with simple, glandular- viscid hairs: 

 leaves linear-lanceolate, an inch long, their margin more or 

 less revolute: inner sepals 4 lines long, ovate, acuminate, 

 outer linear one-half as long: petals 5 lines long: stamens 

 about 20: capsule equaling the calyx. 



On a dry summit in the central part of the Island of Santa 

 Cruz, growing there along with H. scoparmm, which is com- 

 mon all over the island. 



Ceanothus arboreus. a small tree 15 — 25 feet high, 

 trunk 6 — 10 inches in diameter, smooth, with a light-gray 

 bark; branches soft-pubescent: leaves ovate, acute, serrate, 

 or often rather crenate, 2 — 4 inches long, green and puberu- 

 lent above, whitish and soft-tomentose beneath: flowers 

 pale blue in a compound raceme: fruit not crested. 



Island of Santa Cruz; common on northward slopes in the 

 more elevated regions. The largest known species, with 

 more ample foliage than is found in any other; always tree- 

 like in shape, with clean trunk and open but round head, 

 like a well-kept orchard tree; in this particular most unlike 

 any other Ceanothus. 



LuPixus CARNOSULUS. Annual, not slender, 1 — 2 feet 

 high, somewhat succulent, finely pubescent, with appressed 



