C& GONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY NO. 15 



tabifej Greene: An extreme fomi which is subalpine is Baker's No. 5S 

 front Ea Plata Co. Col. whidi has clasped stem leaves very broadlr 

 ovate amd serrate, and perennial, and with filaments dilated downward 

 riants nearly smooth except for a minute puberulence and a few hairs. 

 Watson> ia the only one who has called attenUon to the dilated filaments 

 of I>. a-xperella, but this character is not uncommon in the genus. Those 

 of us who knew Greene most iintimately find it exceedingly difficult td 

 treat B». wort with consideration since wc are constantly ccKning uj> 

 against His delibearatc Ifes about well known things. With him any-' 

 thing: went so long as he could make it stick, and as a bluffer he wis 

 * P?^?: 5« ^*^ * renegade clergyman , a sodomite socially, and a 

 stench m tlw^•eyw of ail decent people. The most charitable thing we 

 could say of- hiin- was that he was insane. ' ■ 



Lyrocarpa Coulteri Hook, k Harv. Is ascribed to Cftlifomiji <m the 

 type spetrimen, but never seems to have been coUrcted since it| dis-' 

 covery n^ij common at Yaqui Well, 20 miles east of Julian. iV 



I;L* - 2L^^- ^*f^ . P^""'"''^^^' «^°^^ •" *« Tropical life zone, and 

 ^JLt )r^ "^^ '\^^^ ^"'^^' protected from stock which eat it 

 greerfily. Ir ^ows only on rocky slopes preferably southern exposures. 



Lhll'T "^^^ '^"^^ \* ^°*^y' «" 's *« ca* with Stanley* ^nnaia. 

 S.nX'' Foduces several branches racemosely. These straggle up, are 



^l fi^ ^^\ ''*'t ^'■*''^^ *^™»"*tes in a long raceme of brownisK- 

 S^^tfri'3 t^. y '^%^'*^«; The calyx is cylinderical and with 



concave petal 



below form 



ing four conspicuous andes. The linear and 



Inzh^^t^ti'JSf"' 7^*.^^^«* »« ^bout a. w.ae ana spreaa at ngm 

 fne a S^^l bTi'/^l ^^'J^t over in one or two turns to the left fo^- 

 ^ sf^min, ^l .? !lot ^^l"ge above. . The. cplor is a brownish -purpk 

 iftc stamftna are straight, erect, and with \tmtr ,n^ i;„., *^^,.\llr^. 



.h«v* Z^ .t ="'^»;S«^' «r«ct, and with long 

 •bout equal the sepals. The flat greenish i«d 



frZ^^::,^'Z wiTtTl S-nish pods vary greatly in length 

 I - . . ^""S ^^ were to four times a* lnn« ^i. «,;^^ .^«,-.*;tv.P« 



bdoff rn ihclr at»*! ^Koif V ^l \ -^ ^ ^^"? ** ^'^^^i sometime! 



b„riw l^ir."'". l?S- Th. plan, grp«-, on the dopes at *« Well 



ays- prot 



f._/_i._« ' ">e orusn. It does not erow iinfl#>i. mpcni,,**- «^ t,r<»,. 



grow under mesqiiite or larger 



r^—L'^'""'^^ *^«^ Agave desserti abounds, also \f,m,^;n.w. 



la6pcmTa^ 



also Mammillaria pM' 



L ■ t 



spea- s p^babfy at the ^T T'*"'!^ ^\°^ *^^* 0^<^« ^-^J^««J ^'^ 

 ^ng, C a does not%S^ .»^ r' '^-^^^ '' " ^^^<Jit^^ *<> B^^^g" 

 Yaqui We 1 to ?et to W.^ , • '^"^f- ^"^ ^^ ™"'t ^ave gone past 

 Co^er sBows thS iV an3abS'r ^* "^"'^"V^^ °^ the%oute of 

 along the old route to aI cZf^^- ^"^^^^^ "^^ '^«« ^^^^ Calif 



dowf the sio^to ^S^t^'zr^T ':^J:^ 



-i^ lo :,an i-elipe, and then across 

 down It to Yaqui Well. Fr«m ♦JT.! 



Sentence 



probably, to^ Kane sprimr foBov^nr tT," " **°"^^ 

 5*. Van.,; \v»ii ^..„fV^:/*^-°^°8 the present route 



ran®? 1^ naftli and^ so«tft fs stHT unknoH-n 



^ the type. locality of Lyrocarpa. What 



