NO. 2 gentry: land plants 125 



Nyctaginaceae 



Abronl^ maritima Nutt. in Wats., Bot. Calif. 2:4. 1880. 



San Francisco Island, IVIarch 9, Rempel 103, on beach dunes. San 

 Juanico Bay, March 2, Rempel 46. 



Widely distributed in the California Gulf Region where it has been 

 collected or reported along the shores and on many of the islands. Type 

 locality is San Pedro, California. 



CoMMiCARPus Brandegei Standi., C.N.H. 12:374. 1909. 



Puerto Escondido, February 11, Dawson 1099. Punta Frailes, Feb- 

 ruary 16, Dawson 1123. San Jose del Cabo, February 17, Dawson 1204. 



Endemic to southern Baja California; type from San Pablo. Insular 

 in origin, it appears to have migrated in Quarternar}' times northward 

 along the Sierra Giganta. It is a scandent shrub similar in habit to C. 

 scandens, but distinguished by larger leaves and the annular arrange- 

 ment of glands on the fruits. 



Batidaceae 



Batis maritima L., Syst. Nat. ed. 10:1289. 1759. 



San Francisco Island, IMarch 9, Rempel 102, around playa. 



Littoral in the warmer parts of the New World from Hawaiian 

 Islands to Florida and Brazil ; type locality unknown. 



Phytolaccaceae 



Stegnosperma halimifolium Benth., Bot. Voy. Sulph. 17. 1844. 



San Jose del Cabo, Februar}^ 17, Dawson 1202. Sonora, near Guay- 

 mas, February' 9, Dawson 1083. San Carlos Bay, February 8, Dawson 

 1058. Puerto Refugio, Angel de la Guardia Island, March 20, Rempel 

 278. Tortuga Island, Rempel 230. Island in Concepcion Bay, Rempel 

 192. 



Widely distributed through the littoral of middle America ; type from 

 Cape San Lucas, Baja California. It forms a dense symmetrical bush 

 1-2 X 1-3 m and has a long inflorescence period through the spring. 



AlZOACEAE 



Mollugo verticillata L., Sp. PL 89. 1753. 



San Jose del Cabo, February' 17, Dawson 1205. 



Widely distributed in North America and the Old World. A low 

 prostrate or ascendant-stemmed annual herb with radiating stems, verti- 

 cellately branched, lanceolate to linear leaves, and cymose inflorescence. 

 The minute apetalous flowers having tripartite stigmas distinguished it 

 from the Drj^marias, which it greatly resembles in appearance. The seeds 

 are reniform, shiny brown, and distinctly ribbed. 



