NO. 2 gentry: LAND PLANTS 147 



from Angel de la Guardia south to San Jose del Cabo; type from Car- 

 men Island. A low spreading flat-topped viscous shrub with showy 

 flowers in the spring. 



LOASACEAE 



EucNiDE CORDATA Kell. in Curran, Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1:137. 

 1885. 



San Gabriel Bay, Espiritu Santo Island, March 7, Rempel 99, in 

 alkaline flats not far from beach dunes. Agua Verde Bay, Baja Cali- 

 fornia, March 10, Rempel 121, wash. Tortuga Island, March 17, Rem- 

 pel 215. 



Common to the cliffs, rocky slopes, and occasional in washes through 

 the mid-section of the peninsula and the adjacent islands; type from 

 Cedros Island. It is a coarse rather succulent or turgescent perennial 

 herb with bright green, cordate, crenate, lobate leaves, and creamy white 

 tubular flowers. 



Mentzelia adhaerens Benth., Bot. Voy. Sulph. 15. 1844. 



Turner's Island, January 25, Dawson 1012. Near Guaymas, Feb- 

 ruary 9, Dawson 1096. Tortuga Island, March 17, Rempel 226. 



Sonora and Baja California; type from Magdalena Bay, Baja Cali- 

 fornia. Johnston also reports it from Tortuga and Tiburon Islands. The 

 Dawson numbers show the pauperate foliage of a dry winter season, the 

 blades being mostly less than 2 cm long. It is a brittle herb sometimes 

 found clambering among the low branches of shrubs. The Mexicans have 

 been heard to call it "pega pega." 



Petalonyx linearis Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1:188. 1885. 



Tortuga Island, March 17, Rempel 214. 



A low bushy subshrub with rough scabrous leaves, large floral bracts, 

 and small white flowers. Widely scattered over the northern half of the 

 peninsula and the adjacent islands; into southern California and Ari- 

 zona. Type from Cedros Island. 



Sympetaleia rupestris (Baill.) Gray in Wats., Proc. Am. Acad. 

 Sci. 24:50. 1889. 



Tiburon Island, January 25, Dawson 1013. Puerto Escondido, March 

 13, Rempel 162. Island in Concepcion Bay, March 16, Rempel 202. 



On cliffs and dry rocky situations in the mid-gulf region in Sonora, 

 Baja California, and the gulf islands of Sal si puedes, Tiburon, and 

 Tortuga. A low sticky herb forming rounded clumps ; spring flowering. 



