430 EUPHORBIACEAE 



as "Death Valley, between Mohave and Keeler", Coville ^ Funston, but no. 1008 was actually 

 collected "a few kilometers north of Indian Wells" (Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4:256), which is 

 in the lower Owens Valley and some CO miles from Death Valley. 



14. E. misera Benth. Cliff Spurge. Much branched straggling shrub 2 to 

 3 feet high; herbage minutely puberulent or glabrate; leaves mostly fascicled, the 

 blades round-obovate, obtuse or retuse, 2 to 5 lines long, exceeding the petioles; 

 stipules inconspicuous, erose, fugacious; involucres solitary, terminal on the short 

 branchlets of the season, hemispheric, 1 line long, their lobes short, inflexed; glands 

 purple, with a white crenulate appendage; capsules minutely papillose and short- 

 hispid, 2 to 2^2 lines long, with rounded lobes; seeds round-ovate, reticulate- 

 wrinkled or slightly pitted, IV-} lines long. 



Rocky slopes, usually along the coast, and headlands over the sea : Santa Ca- 

 talina Isl.; Orange, Riverside and San Diego Cos. South to Lower California. 

 Dec. -Aug. 



Locs. — Santa Catalrna Isl. (Field Mus. Publ. Bot. 5:163); Corona del Mar, Orange Co., 

 L. M. Booth 1300 ; Arch Beach, Orange Co. (Bull. S. Cal. Acad. 22 :8) ; Palm Sprs. of San Jacinto, 

 Jaeger; San Diego, Cleveland. 



Kefs. — Euphorbia misera Benth. Bot. Sulph. 51 (1844), type loc. San Diego and San Quen- 

 tin. Hinds; Jepson, Man. 601 (1925). Trichosterigma miserum Kl. & Gke. Monatsber. Akad. 

 Berl. 1859:248 (1860). Euphorbia lenedicta Greene, Pitt. 1:263 (1889), type loc. San Benito 

 Isl., L. Cal., Pond. 



15. E. eriantha Benth. Beetle Spurge. Stem branching at or near the base, 

 1/2 to 11/2 feet high, the branches slender, 7 to 18 inches high; herbage glabrous or 

 finely puberulent above; leaves distant, the blades narrowly linear, attenuate to 

 a short petiole, 1 to 21/4 inches long, the uppermost forming a whorl subtending 

 the flower-cluster and many times exceeding the flowers; involucres in close clus- 

 ters of 1 to 4 at the end of each branch, hoary-pubescent, campanulate, their lobes 

 incurved, fimbriate with densely pubescent teeth; glands thin, the broad appendage 

 fimbriate; stjdes undivided; capsules obtusely lobed, finely pubescent, 2 to 2^ lines 

 long; seeds quadrate-oblong, iy2 lines long, brown, with low warty ridges; caruncle 

 conspicuous, stipitate, lunate. 



Caiions and mesas, among rocks, 500 to 3000 feet : Colorado Desert. South to 

 Lower California. Apr. 



Locs. — Chuckwalla bench, e. Kiverside Co., Hall 5876; Eagle Mts., Riverside Co., Mum 4" 

 KecTc 4820; Andreas Canon, Palm Sprs. of San Jacinto, Parish 1226; Devils Canon, Santa Eosa 

 Mts., Clary; Yaqui Well, e. San Diego Co., Jepson 12,535. 



Eefs. — Euphorbia eriantha Benth. Bot. Sulph. 51 (1844), type loc. Bay of Magdalena, L. 

 Cal., Hinds; Jepson, Man. 601 (1925). Poinsettia eriantha Eose & Standi. Contrib. U. S. Nat. 

 Herb. 16:13 (1912). 



16. E. dictyosperma F. & M. Wart Spurge. Stems erect, 5 to 15 inches high, 

 simple or branching from the base, dichotomously branched above; herbage gla- 

 brous; blades of the lower leaves oblong- or obovate-spatulate, serrulate, often 

 retuse, I/2 to li/4 inches long, sessile or the lowermost shortly petioled; upper and 

 floral leaves opposite, the blades round-ovate to oblong, sessile, 3 to 6 lines long; 

 inflorescence umbelliform, the rays 2 or 3 times forked; involucre and glands 

 small; glands not horned; capsules with warty lobes, 1 to II/4 lines long; seeds 

 brown to blackish, finely reticulate, ellipsoid, % to 1 line long. 



Open slopes or flats, adobe, sandy or rocky soil, 25 to 1500 (or 4000) feet: 

 throughout cismontane California but infrequent. ISTorth to Washington, east to 

 the Rocky Mts., south to Mexico. Mar.-May. 



Locs. — Bridgeville, Humboldt Co., Tracy 7455; Trinity Eiver near the South Fork, Tracy 

 7431; Little Hot Sprs., Modoc Co., M. S. Baher; Potter Valley, Mendocino Co., Purpus; College 

 City, Alice King; Denverton, Solano Co., Jepson 13,922; Brentwood, Chesnut 4" Drew; Oakland 

 Hills, Jepson 10,394; Alameda, Jepson 13,923; Santa Lucia Mts., San Luis Obispo Co., Sum- 

 mers; Los Gatos Creek, w. Fresno Co., Jepson 12,186; Amador Co. (Hansen, Fl. Sequoia Eeg. 3) ; 

 Santa Catalina Isl., K. Brandegee; Santa Ana Mts., Alice King; San Diego, Hall 3915. 



