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This is found on all the islands. Mrs. Trask discovered 

 but one plant on San Nicolas. 



It is questionable whether this should be included under 

 C. occidentalis or left as a distinct species. It looks quite 

 unlike the common mainland form, but Mr. Brandegee in 

 "Zoe," Vol. I, p. 85, describes plants that seem to insep- 

 arably connect the two. At present, it is most convenient 

 to leave it under the above name. 



Mrs. Trask writes as follows about this: "C macro- 

 stegius is utterly different in every way from C . occidenlalisy 

 seen on Santa Catalina by hundreds. C. occidentalis is 

 never two or more flowered within the bracts." 



BORAGINACE^. 



54. Heliotropium Curassavicum L., Sp. PL, p. 130. 



Reported from San Miguel, Santa Cruz, and Santa Cat- 

 alina. Collected on San Nicolas on the beach, seen in two 

 localities. 



These San Nicolas plants are singularly robust. The 

 leaves are crowded towards the summit of the short stems, 

 apparently very fleshy, oblong-spatulate, 2-5 cm. long in- 

 cluding the broad petiole which equals or is twice as long 

 as the blade, 10-15 mm, wide; flowers somewhat larger in 

 all their parts than the common form. 



55. Pectocarya linearis DC, Prodr., Tome X, p. 120. 

 In Syn. Fl., Vol. II, p. 182, Gray mentions two forms. 



This resembles that under P. Chilensis. It has narrower 

 and more pectinate teeth to a somewhat incurved wing and 

 the nutlets arcuate, recurved in age. The type locality is 

 in Chili, as the name indicates. 



This is the first record from the islands. It was collected 

 on the ridge 1000 ft. above the sea. 



56. Cryptanthe maritima Greene, Pitt., Vol. I, p. 117. 



K)'ynitzkia viavitima Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. Sci., Vol. I, p. 204. "Guad- 

 alupe Island." 



