536 PLANTS FROM LOWER CALIFORNIA. 



glanrous, broadly ovate, cordate :it base, entire or slightly serrate, 1 to 

 H inches long, on short, naked petioles, upper ones reduced to small 

 bracts, heads ou long peduncles, to 12 lines broad; rays yellow, 

 twenty, 3 to 4 lines long; disk browuish. The involucral bracts lan- 

 ceolate, greenish above, below covered with long, white, villose pubes- 

 cence. Akenes 2 lines long, no pappus, the margins long-villose, the 

 sides glabrous. Common about the Eay Lagoon Head, Lower Cali- 

 fornia, March 7 to 15, 1880. 



803. Gilia Palmeri Watson. 



This is the second station for this recently (1889) described species. 

 First collected at Los Angeles Bay, by Dr. Edward Palmer, in 1887, 

 and now on the other side of the peninsula, but 40 miles back from the 

 coast. The specimens of this year make necessary a few changes in 

 the original description. The stem is biennial, very woody at base, 

 somewhat taller, peduncles often 2 inches long. " Gravelly hills, grows 

 scatteringly, bloom pink color." March G to 15. Lagoon Head. 



£08. Nama demissum Gray. 



The range of this plant is only given as far south as the southwestern 

 borders of California in Syn. Flora. And so far as herbarium specimens 

 go, none have been seen from Lower California. It was collected 40 

 miles back from the ocean in the .sandy valleys. Dr. Palmer speaks of 

 it as " a showy plant ; grows quite thick, forming large patches ; bloom 

 violet." 



801. Krynitzkia Grayi n. sp. 



Small annual, 1 to 3 inches high, hispid; leaves filiform, a half inch 

 long ; spikes bractless, simple or in pairs, closely flowered ; calyx barely 

 a line long, open in fruit; nutlets one-third of a line long, ovate, trigo 

 nous, grayish, nmriculate-roughened ; ventral groove broad, triangular 

 at base, closed above; the style twice as long as the nutlets. Abun- 

 dant in low places between hills. Growing with K. maritima. It comes 

 between K. ambigua and K. mieromeres ; the calyx is more like K. <un- 

 bigua, while the fruit resembles more closely it", micromeres, but totally 

 different from either. 



