46 Contributions to Western Botany. 
7-8000° alt.; at Templeton in loose granite sand. Purpus, Nos. 
1877, 1497. 
10. A. maritima Nutt. Bot. Cal. 2 4. Very stout; involu-— 
cral bracts short, ovate-oblong; flowers red; wings of fruit some- 

what Jeathery; otherwise as A. umbellata. Southern Pacific 
sea. coast. 
2AB2C. Slender and widely spreading annuals. 
ll. A. gracilis Benth. Bot. Sulph. 44. All but the lowest 
leaves very villous-glutinous, leaves rhomboidal to ovate, obtuse, | 
wavy, about 1’ long or less, with variable petioles; flowers bright- 
pink, about 4-5” wide; fruit. much like that of A. villosa. but 
wings not so produced, inner coat with peculiar markings; seed 
flat and oblong-ovate. Tropical Zone of southern California and 
southward. 
12. A, villosa Wats. Am. Nat. 7 302. Involucral bracts 
lanceolate and acuminate, not over 4” long; flowers pink; fruib 
with a firm body, strongly net-pitted; 3-5 thin wings without — 
disks, truncate to acute above; seed shiny, lanceolate; leaves 
oblong to ovate, wavy, obtuse, base triangular; villous plants. 
Grows in the Larrea Zone of southern Nevada and Utah. 
13. A.angulata JonesCont. 8 39. Whole plant very gland- 
ular hairy, even to the flowers, except the leaf blades; stents 
fruit 2” long, body oblanceolate, 3”? wide, 
tracted below fully 1” 
seems obcordate. Southwestern N evada and eastern California. 
2A2B. Wings very wide all around and produced above and — 
below the seed; rather Short and Stout-stemmed avinuals, 
widely spreading; leares ovate or narrower; petioles equal 
ing the leaves and 1-3’ long; 
body of fruit stipitate and pisti! prolonged at the apex to 
the edge of the wings; wings reticulated. around the mar- 
gin and transparent; body of the fruit 1-3- 
Side; flowers ahout 1’ 
wings but little con- 4 
wide at the produced apex, fruit in outline 
ribbed on each | 
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