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aments nearly sessile, of 6 to 8 whorls of broad bracts; perianth 

 round-ovate, slightly exserted ; anthers 5 to 8, stipitate : fertile flowers 

 3 to 5 lines long, on a very short peduncle, of 5 or 6 whorls of thin 

 broadly dilated unguiculate more or less crenulate bracts : fruit solitary 

 or in threes, oblong-lanceolate, scabrous, 4 lines long or less : micro- 

 pyle a line or two long. — New Mexico to S. Utah; Fronteras 

 (n. 1883, Wright) ; El Paso (Bigelow; ; Santa Fe (n. 80, Rothrock) ; 

 S. Utah (n. 250, Parry, 1874). 



Ephedra California. Stems ascending or decumbent, the 

 ternate branches not spinose: scales in threes, sheathing but soon 

 splitting to the base and recurved, 1| to 3 lines long, the oblong 

 acutish lobes long-persistent, becoming dark-colored : staminate aments 

 globose, sessile, of 4 whorls of nearly distinct bracts; perianth broad, 

 included; anthers 4 or 5, sessile: fertile flowers sessile, of 4 or 5 

 whorls of rather rigid scarious reniform-orbicular sessile bracts, the 

 upper with a broad and very short claw : fruit solitary, ovate, some- 

 what 4-angled, acutish, smooth, 3 to 3i lines long. — San Diego 

 County, California ; promontory near San Diego and Jamul Valley 

 Dr. E. Palmer (n. 364 and 365, 1875). 



Cupressus Guadalupensis. A widely spreading tree, becoming 

 40 feet high or more, and 2 to 5 feet in diameter, with grayish-brown 

 bark cleaving off in thin plates and leaving the thin inner bark with 

 a smooth claret-red surface : branches drooping and branchlets very 

 slender: foliage glaucous-green, the acute or acutish leaves very 

 obscurely glandular on the back : cones globose, an inch or more in 

 diameter, of 6 or 8 very thick and strongly bossed scales: seeds 

 numerous, large (3 lines long or more). — On Guadalupe Island, off 

 the coast of Lower California; distributed as C. macrocarpa in 

 Dr. E. Palmer's collection from that island. In cultivation about 

 San Francisco, and likely to prove very valuable for ornamental 

 purposes. 



Zephyranthes Treats. Bulb small (a half -inch in diameter) : 

 leaves thick, semi-terete with rounded margins, very narrow (rarely 

 1£ lines wide), deep green and not shining: scape 4 to 12 inches 

 high : spathe in the fresh flower closely sheathing the ovary and stout 

 peduncle: flower 3 inches long, white becoming pinkish; segments 

 obtusish: anthers short, Hto3 lines long: capsule broader than long 

 (5 or 6 lines), on a peduncle 3 to 9 lines long. — In wet or moist 

 places, Florida ; near Green Cove Springs, Mrs. Mary Treat; on the 

 St. John's River, near Jacksonville, Dr. E. Palmer and A. H. Curtiss. 

 Distributed as Amaryllis Atamasco in the collections of the latter. It 



