16 BOTAI^Y. 



MiCROMERiA DouGLASir, Benth, in DO. Prodr. 12, ^3. 223. Salinas valley, California ; 

 November. 



Salvia carduacea, Benth. Lab. p. 302. S. Gossypina, Benth. PI. Harhu. p. 330. Los 

 Angeles ; March. 



Salvia CoLUMBARiiB, Benth. I. c. With the last. Commonly not more than a foot high, but 

 often smaller and sometimes much larger. All the specimens have annual roots. 



AuDiBBRTiA POLYSTACHTA, BentJi. Lab. p. 414, and in BO. Prodr. 12, p. 360. San Luis Key 

 and San Diego ; April. Stem nearly four feet high, simple^ the upper half of the plant bear- 

 ing opposite spikes, which are about two inches in length. Lower leaves two and a half 

 inches long and an inch wide, conspicuously petioled. The whole plant is canescent. 



AuDiBERTiA STACiiYOiDES, Benth. I. c. Santa Clara and San Diego ; April. A branching 

 shrub, with the foliage resembling that of the common garden sage. 



Amsinckia spectabilis, Fisch. & Mey. Ind. Hort. Petrop. 1835. Los Angeles and Santa 

 Clara valley ; March. A slender form of the plant was collected near Santa Barbara. 



Eritrichium fulvum, Alpih. DO. Prodr. 10, p. 132. Santa Barbara, San Bernardino, and 

 other places in California ; April. 



Plagiobotrys canescens, Benth. PI. Hartw.,p. 326. San Gabriel, etc.; April. A common 

 Californian plant. The genus is hardly distinct from Eritrichium. 



Eritrichium Chorisianum, DO. I. c. Myosotis Chorisiana, Cham, and Schlecht. Salinas 

 valley ; November. 



Heliotropium curassavicum, Linn. ; DO. Prodr. 9, ];>. 539. On the Gila river ; common ; June. 



Nemophila parviflora, Benth. Linn. Trans. *J, p. 275. San Gabriel and Los Angeles ; 

 March. 



Nemophila insignis, Benth. I. c. Santa Barbara ; also between Santa Clara and Los An- 

 geles ; March. 



Nemophila aurita, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1601 ; Alph. DO. Prodr. 9,^. 290. Los Angeles; 

 March. 



Phacelia (Eutoca) Parryi, Torr. in Bot. Mex. Bound, ined. San Isabel, California ; May. 

 This species connects Whitlavia with Phacelia, agreeing with the former in the scales at the 

 base of the stamens, and with Phacelia (Eutoca) in the form of the corolla. 



Whitlavia grandiflora, Harv. in Hooh. Lond. Jour. Bot. ?>,p. 311, t. 11. San Bernardino 

 and Kikal Mungo mountain ; March and April. Flowers varying from eight lines to an inch 

 and a half in length. The cultivated plant is also variable. We think that W. minor, Harv. 

 I. c. t. 12, is only a small form of W. grandiflora. 



Phacelia circinata, Jacq. Ed. 1, t. 91 ; Alph. DO. Prodr. 9, p: 299. San Gabriel, &c,; 

 May. 



Phacelia tanacetifolia, Benth. in Linn. Trans. 17, p. 280. Santa Barbara to San Isabel ; 

 February, May. 



Erythr^a floribunda, Benth. PI. Hartio., p. 322. Banks of the Salinas river ; November. 

 Plant 5 — 7 inches high. This and the other species of the genus are known in California by 

 the name of Canchalagua, a bitter tonic of considerable celebrity. 



Erythr^a triachantha, Griseh. in DC. Prodr. 9, p. 60. On the Gila river, above the 

 Pimas villages ; June. 



Convolvulus lobatus, Engelm. & Gray, PI. Lindh. l,p. 44, (adnot.) C. hastatus, Nutt. in 

 Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. (n. ser.) 5, p. 194 ; not of Thunb. Burro mountains ; August. 



