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Lotus niveus (Greene) Greene, Pittonia 2:148. 1890. 



San Clemente Island, February 18, 19, Ebnore 409. 



Known only from Santa Cruz and San Clemente Islands. 



Referred here is Elmore 410, a sterile shrubby perennial 2-4 dm high 

 with silvery sericeus twigs, spikoid foliage, also densely silvery tomentose, 

 with 3 ovate-lanceolate leaflets 10-15 mm long. 



Lotus ornithopus Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1:185. 1885. 

 San Clemente Island, February 18, 19, Elmore 392. 

 Southern California, northern Baja California and adjacent islands; 

 type from Guadelupe Island off Baja California. 



Lupinus sparsiflorus Benth., PI. Hartw. 303. 1848. 



Santa Cruz Island, hill west of Prisoners Harbor, April 17, Elmore 

 446. 



Widely scattered in southern California and in adjacent Baja Cali- 

 fornia. 



Trifolium microcephalum Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 2:478. 1814. 



Santa Cruz Island, hill west of Prisoners Harbor, April 17, Elmore 

 441. 



Open grassy slopes from British Columbia to Baja California and 

 east to Nevada; type from Bitter Root River, Montana. On San Miguel, 

 Santa Rosa, Santa Catalina, and San Clemente Islands. 



Trifolium tridentatum aciculare (Nutt.) McDermott, N. Am. 

 Trifol. 26. 1910. 



Santa Cruz Island, rock slide between Pelican Bay and Prisoners 

 Harbor, April 17, Elmore 465. 



Central valley of California, cismontane southern California, and 

 adjacent islands; type from Santa Barbara. Also on Santa Rosa and San 

 Clemente Islands. 



Oxalidaceae 



OxALis CERNUA Thunb., Diss. Oxal. 14. 1781. 



San Clemente Island, February 18, 19, Elmore 423. 



Naturalized from southern Africa and now common in cismontane 

 southern California ; on the Channel Islands it has previously been listed 

 from Santa Catalina only. 



