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zum but was smaller and earlier in anthesis. The relation of this 
glabrous variety to var. polifolium is analogous to that existing 
between typical E. fasciculatum and the pubescent var. foliolosum. 
ALLIONIA PUMILA Standley 
Allionia pumila Standley, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 12: 345. 
1909. 
Allionia Brandeget Standley, I. c. 346. 
The only Allionia hitherto reported from California is A. 
Brandegei, the type of which came from the Providence Mountains 
in the eastern part of the Mohave Desert. Two collections 
recently made by F. W. Peirson in the San Bernardino Mountains 
are of this species, which has recently been included in A. 
pumila by Standley (No. Am. Flora 21: 226. 1918). These 
collections not only extend the range of this species to the western 
part of the desert but even into the coastal drainage. One 
(Peirson 2257) from the Santa Ana River, at 4500 feet elevation, 
is twice as tall as the type of A. Brandegei and has the leaves 
broadly ovate and cordate, rather than oblong and scarcely 
cordate. The other plant (Peirson 1850), from Cushenberry 
Grade, is more like Brandegee’s type collection, being about 
ten inches high and with leaves ovate to oblong. 
ALLIONIA NYCTAGINEA Michx. 
Allionia nyctaginea Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 100. 1803. 
Allionia ovata Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 97. 
The ovate-leaved form of the above a dites was found in 
June, 1919, to be locally established along a siding of the Santa 
Fe Railroad about a mile west of Upland, Johnston 2169. Ex- 
amination of the locality in January, 1922, showed the colony 
to have been destroyed by the oil spray used by the railroad 
for weed destruction. This is apparently the first record for 
_ the state. 
/Scopulophila Rixfordii (Brandegee) comb. nov. 
Achyronychia Rixfordii Brandegee, Zoe 1: 230. 1890. 
Scopulophila nitrophiloides Jones, Contr. W. Bot. 12: 5. 1908. 
Eremolithia Rixfordii Jepson, Fl. California 499. f. 100. 1914. 
This odd desert plant seems to be generically distinct from 
Achyronychia, but Jones’s Scopulophila has precedence over 
the much later generic name Eremolithia of Jepson, 
