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Field note. — Prospectors traveling over arid wastes chew the leaves of this plant when out 

 of water. Some "desert rats" carry it in their packs as a resource in time of need. The leaves 

 are a little bitter, but they often serve to tide over a period of stress or even to save life in dire 

 extremity. 



Locs. — Sisquoc, Santa Barbara Co., M. S. Baker; Santa Catalina Isl. (Erythea 7:139); 

 Cahuenga Peak, Chandler 2007; near Claremont, Crawford; Fish Canon, San Gabriel Mts., 

 Peirson 518; Mill Creek, San Bernardino Mts.; San Gorgonio Pass, Jepson 6069; Whitewater 

 Bridge, Jepson 11,668; Lookout Mt. near Pinon Well (n. of Indio), Jepson 6011; Eiverside, 

 Jepson 1222; Palm Canon, San Jacinto Mts., Jepson 1349; Menifee, Riverside Co., Alice King; 

 Indian Canon, Collins Valley, Jepson 8856; Claymine Canon, Santa Ana Mts., J. T. Howell 2637; 

 Palomar, Jepson 1530; Wagon Wash near Sentenac Canon, e. San Diego Co., Jepson 12,469; 

 San Diego. 



Var. Ixirida Munz. Plants 1^/4 to 2^2 feet high; leaves and flowering stems purplish-brown; 

 flowers reddish, 5% to 6 lines long. — Santa Monica Mts. (Eustic Canon, Peirson 1934) ; Ventura 

 Co. (Sespe Creek, Peirson 5768). 



Var. saxosa Jepson comb. n. Plants 5 to 6 inches high; cyme small; calyx brick-red. — 

 Panamint Mts. 



Var. composta Jepson var. n. Cyme branches few, simple, very secund; pedicels 1 to 2 lines 

 long; flowers 4 lines long. — (Cymae rami pauci, simplices, secundissimi; pedieelli lin. 1-2 longi; 

 flores lin. 4 longi.) — Spruce Canon, Mt. San Jacinto, Jepson 2285, type. 



Var. incerta Jepson var. n. Somewhat slender, 9 to 12 inches high; cyme branches 3 or 4, 

 simple and elongated or sparingly branched, the pedicels subequal (1^ to 2 lines long) ; petals 

 reddish, slenderly lanceolate, 4i/^ to 5^/^ lines long, the tips tending to spread a little in age. — 

 (Caules paulo graciles, unc. 9-12 alti; cymae rami 3—4, simplices et elongati, vel parce ramosi, 

 pedicellis subaequantibus (lin. iy-2-2 longis). — Sierra Nevada foothills in Calaveras Co., near 

 Kentucky House on Calaveritas Creek, Jepson 9919, type. 



Refs. — EcHEVERiA LANCEOLATA Nutt. ; T. & G. Fl. 1:561 (1840), type loc. San Diego, 

 Nuttall; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 69, pi. 24 (1859). Cotyledon lanceolata B. & W. Bot. Cal. 

 1:211 (1876) ; Jepson, Man. 453 (1925). Dudleya lanceoluta Britt. & Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. 

 Gard. 3:23 (1903). D. parishii Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3:21 (1903), type loc. San Bernar- 

 dino, Parish. B. reflexa Britt. N. Am. Fl. 22:36 (1905), type from S. Cal., Mary T. Bryce. 

 (?) D. abramsii Rose, I.e. 14, type loc. near Jaeumba, Abrams, "with nearly sessile flowers". 

 D. elongata Rose, I.e. 28, type loc. near San Pedro, Basse. D. hallii Rose, I.e. 17, type loc. River- 

 side, Hall. E. hallii Nels. & Mcbr. Bot. Gaz. 56:476 (1913). (?) Dudleya angustiflora Rose, 

 I.e. 14, type loc. Daunt, Tulare Co., Purpus. D. aloides Rose, I.e. 15, type loc. San Felipe, San 

 Diego Co., T. Brandegee. D. grandiflora Rose, I.e. 16, type loc. Whitewater, San Bernardino 

 Mts., T. Brandegee. (?)!>. parishii Rose, I.e. 21, type loc. near San Bernardino, Parish, pedicels 

 2 to 4 lines long (ex char.). D. brauntonii Rose, I.e. 24, type loc. Elysian Hills, Los Angeles, 

 Braunton 869, 882. D. congesta Britt. Bull, N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3:25 (1903), type loc. "southern 

 California", Bryce; a dwarf form which may belong here. Z>. delicata Rose, I.e. 24, type loc. 

 Spencer Valley near Julian, Abrams. Var. lurida Mimz, Man. S. Cal. Bot. 213 (1935). Dudleya 

 lurida Rose, I.e. 22, type loc. Santa Monica Mts. Var. saxosa Jepson. Cotyledon lanceolata 

 var. saxosa Jepson, Man. 453 (1925). Cotyledon saxosa Jones, Contrib. W. Bot. 8:28 (1898), 

 tvpe loc. Panamint Canon, Panamint Range, Jones. Dudleya saxosa Britt. & Rose, Bull. N. Y. 

 Bot. Gard. 3:15 (1903). E. saxosa Nels. & Mcbr. Bot. Gaz. 56:476 (1913). Var. composta 

 Jepson. Var. inceeta Jepson. 



6. E. viscida Berger. Sticky Lettuce. Steins 10 to 17 inclies high; leaves 

 of the rosette narrowly linear-lanceolate, flat, 1 to 2i/^ lines wide, attenuate up- 

 wards from a very broad (6 to 8 lines wide) sessile base, 2 to 3 inches long, glabrous 

 but very viscid; cyme flat-topped or elongated and thyrsoid; petals yellowish and 

 usually somewhat reddish. 



Rocky places near the coast, 5 to 700 feet : Orange Co. to San Diego Co. June. 



Locs. — San Juan Capistrano Hot Sprs. ; Oceanside, Parish 4453. 



Var. insularis Jepson comb. n. Plants not viscid, usually glaucous. — Dry cliffs, Santa Bar- 

 bara Isls.: Santa Catalina Isl., Seed 2797; San Clemente Isl., T. Brandegee. 



Refs. — Echeveria viscida Berger; Engler & Prantl, Nat. Pflzfam. ed. 2, 18a:480 (1930). 

 Cotyledon viscida Wats. Proc. Am. Acad, 17:372 (1882), type loc. Hot Springs at San Juan 

 Capistrano, Orange Co., Nevin; Parish, Erythea 6:88 (1898) ; Jepson, Man. 453 (1925). Stylo- 

 phyllum viscidum Britt. & Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard, 3:33 (1903), Var. insxilakis Jepson. 

 Cotyledon viscida var. insularis Jepson I.e. Stylophylhim insulare Rose, Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. 

 3:34 (1903), type loc. Santa Catalina Isl., Blanche Trash. S. virens Rose, I.e., type loc. San 

 Clemente Isl., Blanche TrasTc. S. albidum Rose, I.e., type loc. San Clemente Isl., T. Brandegee. 



