NO. 2 gentry: LAND PLANTS 177 



Southern Baja California; type from Cape San Lucas. Annual with 

 the leaves all basal, the scape 2-2.5 dm tall, bearing several, narrov^r, 

 irregularly fimbriate bracts and terminating in an open panicle, minutely 

 bracteate. The involucre bracts are pale, w^ith irregular rather large 

 glands, the ray flowers pale pink, erose. The above collections are near 

 the northern limit for the species. 



Malperia tenuis Wats., Proc. Am. Acad. Sci. 24:54. 1889. 



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

 270a. 



Coarse arid soils of the rocky slopes through the deserts of northern 

 and middle Baja California; type from stony ridges near Los Angeles 

 Bay. It is a diminutive winter annual, corymbosely branching, the seeds 

 maturing in March and early April. 



NicoLLETiA trifida Rydb., N. Am. Fl. 34:180. 1915. 



Los Angeles Bay, March 19, 20, Rempel 236, on fan and in washes. 



Sandy soils of middle Baja California; the type from Los Angeles 

 Bay. A distinctive perennial herb with linear dissected leaves, a Dysodia- 

 like odor and appearance. The flowers are made striking by the con- 

 spicuous white rays striped medially with reddish purple. 



Palafoxia linearis (Cav.) Lag., Gen. & Sp. PI. 26. 1816. 



Los Angeles Bay, March 19, 20, Rempel 239. 



From southern Utah and southern Nevada south through the deserts 

 into northern and northwestern Mexico, chiefly in sandy soils. It is ag- 

 gressive in colonizing disturbed soils, as along roads and trails. The 

 woody section of old stem and the strigose leaves of the Rempel collec- 

 tion indicate it should be more closely assigned to the variety leucophylla 

 (Gray) Jtn. 



Pectis multiseta Benth., Bot. Voy. Sulph. 20. 1844. 



Punta Frailes, February 16, Dawson 1121. San Jose del Cabo, Feb- 

 ruary 17, Dawson 1155. 



Southern Baja California; type from Cape San Lucas. The ray 

 flowers are about 8 mm long or 3 mm longer than described for the 

 species by Rydberg (N. Am. Fl. 34:214. 1916). 



Perityle aurea Rose, C.N.H. 1:84. 1890. 



Tortuga Island, March 17, Rempel 225. Agua Verde Bay, Baja 

 California, March 10, Rempel 140, foot of rocky side of arroyo. Canyon 

 above Puerto Escondido, March 13, Rempel 141. 



