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This from San Nicolas agrees almost exactly with a spec- 

 imen collected by Prof. Greene on Guadalupe Island, the 

 nutlets being identical on both plants. However, they are 

 a line long instead of half a line, as in Greene's description. 

 This difference is due probably to the varying age of the 

 nutlets, which differ in size on the same plant and often 

 seem ripe when they are dry but immature. 



Mrs. Trask reports this plant as rare, growing in arroyas 

 swept bare by sand and wind. 



57. Cryptanthe Torreyana Greene, Pitt., Vol. I, p. ii8. 



Kryjiitzkia Torreyana Gray, Proc. Am. Acad., Vol. XX, p. 271. 



Type range : nearly throughout California and east to 

 Nevada and southwestern parts of Idaho. 



This is the first record from the islands; but it has 

 recently been collected by Mrs. Trask on Santa Catalina. 

 It was infrequent, found on bare, wind-swept heights. The 

 nutlets are mottled with two shades of brown and slightly 

 papillose towards the apex. 



58. Amsinckia St. Nicolai, sp. no v. 



Plate VIII, Figs. ya-y^. 



Stems decumbent, branching at the base and at the inflorescence, some- 

 what viscid, very hispid with horizontally spreading, shining white bristles, 

 pustulate at base, often yellowish at apex, from fine and short to stout and 

 more than i mm. long : radical leaves broadly linear to oblanceolate ; cauline 

 ovate-lanceolate, 1-2 cm. long, 5-10 mm. wide at the sessile base, undulate, 

 bristly ciliate, obtuse : spikes with bracts 5 mm. long ; calyx with two oblong 

 divisions free almost to the base, the other three united, 4 mm. long : corolla 

 yellow, about twice as long as the calyx; limb short with uneven, rounded 

 lobes; tube narrow, without folds, spots, or hairs in the throat; stamens ver- 

 satile on very short filaments inserted in the throat of the corolla but not 

 exserted ; style extending to the stamens, surpassing the calyx ; stigma capi- 

 tate: nutlets ovate-triquetrous, carinate, incurved, granulate, irregularly 

 muriculate especially on the keel and at the edges, indistinctly rugose, pale 

 brown, mottled with darker brown. 



This as well as the following species or variety was 

 collected on seashore sands and dry cliffs at 1000 ft. eleva- 

 tion, growing in company with CEnoihera virtdescens. 



