MUNZ AND JOHNSTON: PLANTS OF CALIFORNIA—II 357 
1874). The identifying of this lycioid almond with L. Spencerae 
adjusts for local botanists the problem of explaining how so 
distinct a species, as this Lyciwm seemed to be, could so long 
go undetected in a locality so frequently visited as Cajon Pass. 
We are under obligations to Mr. F. Macbride for making at 
the Gray Herbarium the comparisons necessary for the establish- 
ing of the identity of the two species. 
’Penstemon Clevelandi var. connatus var. nov. 
With habit of growth-and flowers of the species, but with 
leaves jagged-serrate, usually aps and with at least the 
our upper pairs connate-perfoliat 
Type: near Van Deventers, Be a base of the San 
Jacinto Mountains, June 1901, H. M. Hall 2149 (Univ. Calif. 
Herb. 54999). 
A very well marked variation that is apparently restricted 
to the eastern (Colorado Desert) base of the San Jacinto Moun- 
tains. Referable to this variety are the following: Hall r160 
from the type locality, Parish Bros. 1216 and Johnston, April, 
1917, from near Palm Springs. The most evident relationship 
is with the variety Stephensi of the eastern Mohave Desert, 
the new variety agreeing in its foliar characters but differing 
in its somewhat smaller corolla and beardless sterile stamens. 
In our recent discussion of the var. Stephensi (Bull. Torrey 
Club 46: 41. 1922) the specimens of P. Clevelandi Gray mentioned 
as simulating that variety in habit are in fact referable to var. 
connatus. 
P. Clevelandi in its typical form occurs along the desert 
borders to the south of the range of the var. connatus. The 
northernmost locality seen for it is Coyote Canyon, Hall 2766. 
In the typical form the leaves are entire or rarely remotely 
dentate, never glaucous and are entirely free or, at most, only 
partially joined and not completely fused, with the suture line 
obliterated as in the variety. 
/ Galium angustifolium var. pinetorum var. nov. 
A low herbaceous perennial, stems 2-4 dm. high, simple, 
erect, tufted or are from along short, prostrate, pean 
subterranean stem 
Type: Sierra aii Mountains, ee Angeles County, 1893, 
A. Davidson (Univ. Calif. Herb. 28169). 
