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it is identical with the mainland form. Gray (in the supplement 
of the Synoptical Flora, p. 428), attempted to distinguish between 
the insular plant and C. ramosissima Greene, but when applied to 
a series of any size, his characters utterly fail to divide the two 
forms and certainly do not segregate the material into anything 
suggesting geographical lines. Vasey and Rose (Proc. U. S. 
Nat. Mus. 11: 532. 1888) and Brandegee (Bot. Gaz. 27: 453. 
1899) have expressed doubts as to the distinctness of C. ramosis- 
sima and C. maritima, but now with a fine series for study, we 
feel that their doubts can be increased to the point of certainty. 
Every character presented by the Guadalupe specimens, or for 
that matter by any of the coastal plants, can be exactly duplicated 
in specimens from the desert interior. Though it is unfortunate 
that a name such as ‘‘ maritima” should be applied to a plant so 
characteristic of the driest portions of the desert area, yet there 
is no technical reason for coining a new name or for accepting any 
other old one. 
Among the California representatives of the genus, C. maritima 
is unique in its possession of dark reddish stems. ‘This species, 
along with C. recurvata, possesses but two ovules, a condition dif- 
ferent from that found in all other species of the genus (cf. Bran- 
degee, /.c.). 
’ Cryptantha gracilis var. Hillmanii (Nels. & Ken.) comb. nov. 
Cryptantha Hillmaniui Nels. & Ken. Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 
19: 157- 1906. 
This plant must now be accredited a place in the California 
flora. It would seem that it enters the state only in the region of 
the Providence Mountains, for the only California collections come 
from them; Mrs. Brandegee got it at Barnwell and we made a 
fine collection, M, J & H 4222, near the Bonanza King Mine. 
C. Hilimanii is very close to C. gracilis Osterhout (Bull. Torrey 
Club 30: 236.. 1903) and at most is but a poor variety of the 
latter species. Abundant collections of the species may cause 
C. Hillmanii to be reduced outright, but the single isotype of 
C. gracilis in the University of California collection seems to differ 
from all the specimens of C. Hillmanii in its lower and more slender 
habit and less congested inflorescence; therefore, for the time 
