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wide areas on the sandy mesas, Parish; f'halk Hill, Mt. San Jacinto, Jepson; Coaliuilla Valley 

 to Aguanga, Jepson 1477 ; Julian, San Diego Co., T. Brandegee. 



Eefs. — Abenaria douglasii Fenzl; T. & G. Fl. 1: (574 (1840), type from California, 

 Douglas; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 168 (1901). AUinopsis douglasii Heller, Muhl. 8: 20 

 (1912). 



A. HOWELLii Wats. Proe. Am. Acad. 20: 354 (1885), type' loe. Waldo, Ore.. 

 Howell. Annual ; stems erect, very slender. branchin,i>: freely from the base, -'4 to 

 11/4 feet high; herbage purplish, the leaves, nodes and sepals sparingly glandular- 

 pubescent, otherwise mainlj^ glabrous; leaves crowded at base of stem, scat- 

 tered and reduced above, lanceolate, thickish, aeiitish,' sessile by a broad base, 

 becoming rigid in age, 3 to 5 lines long; petals ovate, attenuate, much exceeding 

 the abruptly acute sepals: capsule valves narrowed to an acutish apex; seeds 

 2. somewhat flattened, minutely jtapillate or tulterculate-crested on the margin. 

 — Josephine Co.. Oregon, on Shelley Creek-Waldo road near California liound- 

 ary, Jepson 2922. The plant in its early tiowering stage is very similar to A. 

 douglasii; as it ages the stems become more rigid and more purple, and its 

 aspect is greatly changed. 



11. A. californica Brewer. Stems delicate and filiform, diffusely branch- 

 ing from the base, 1 to 4 inches high, the flowers loosely cymose on pedicels 

 3 to 8 lines long; herbage glabrous; leaves lanceolate, obtuse, very short, 

 slightly fleshy, 1 to 2 lines long; sepals oblong-ovate, li/> lines long, the petals 

 oblong. li£. times as long; seeds small, finely roughened. 



Gravelly hillslopes or disintegrating rock outcroppings in the Coast Ranges 

 from ]\It. Hamilton to ^Mendocino Co. and northward: and in the Sierra Nevada 

 from El Dorado Co. north to Butte Co. ; 100 to 2000 feet. Southern Oregon. 

 Apr.-May. 



Locs. — Coast Ranges: Lake Merced, San Francisco, Tracy 181.5; Berkeley Hills, Tracy 

 1798; St. Helena, Clara Hunt; Kelseyville, Irwin; Seotts Valley, Lake Co., Tracy 16.58; Long 

 Valley, Mendocino Co., Bolander 4684; Crane Creek, Tehama Co., Jepson. Sierra Nevada: 

 Rose Sprs., El Dorado Co., M. H. Gates; Auburn, Bolander 4543; Marysville Buttes, Jepson; 

 Bough & Ready, Nevada Co., Jepson; plains east of Chico, E. M. Austin. 



Refs. — Arenakia californica Brewer, Bot. Cal. 1: 69 (1876); Bolander, Cat. PI. S. F. 

 6 (1870) as a nomen nudum; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 168 (1901). A. hrevifolia var. ? 

 californica Gray, Proc. Cal. Acad. 3: 101 (1864), based on Californian spms. by Fremont (no. 

 284) and Brewer (from Sonoma). Alsinopsis californica Heller, Muhl. 8: 10 (1912). 



12. A. pusilla Wats. Stems simple or several from the base, capillary, 1 

 to 2 inches high; leaves lanceolate, 1 to 2 lines long; sepals ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, 1 line long; petals lanceolate or narrowly ovate, nearly transparent, 

 shorter than the sepals, or more minute, or none : stamens 3, rarely 4 or 5 ; 

 capsule scarcely equaling the calyx ; seeds smooth. 



Dry pine woods, northern border of California and north to Washington. 

 Appears like a reduced form of A. californica. 



Locs. — Quartz Valley, Siskiyou Co., Butler 619 (petals s])rinkled on the upper side with small 

 roughish dots) ; Tracy 3130, on sand-dunes at Humboldt Bay. appears to be the same. 



Eefs. — Arenaria pusilla Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 367 (1882), type loe. Yreka, Greene. 

 Alsinopsis pusilla Heller, Muhl. 8: 96 (1912). 



13. A. propinqua Rich. Tufted. 1 to 3 inches high, with numerous fili- 

 form stems mostly leafy at base and ending above in a rather strict 1 to 4- 

 flowered cluster; herbage glandular-puberulent ; leaves linear-subulate, l^A 

 to 21/0 lines long; flowers sm.all ; sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, 1 to 

 11/0 lines long, strongly 3-nerved on the back, larger than the petals. 



Siskiyou Co., 8000 feet. Arizona to Oregon and far northward. 

 Locs. — Marble Mt.. Chandler 1673. The plant of the San Bernardino Mts. referred to 

 A. vcrnn var. hirta in Syn. Fl. 1': 246 belongs to the next species. 



