no CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. [Proc. 3D Ser. 



59. Amsinckia maritima, sp. nov. 



Plate VIII, Figs. 8a-8^. 



Stouter than the last, more erect, with pubescence stiffer and foliage simi- 

 lar but larger: radical leaves wanting; cauline 3 cm. long, 2 cm. or more wide 

 at base, scattered : spikes ebracteate except occasionally at the lowest flow- 

 ers ; calyx with three divisions united but cleft, the other two divided, 3 mm. 

 long ; corolla 5 mm. long with more spreading divisions than the preceding, 

 throat without folds, hairs, or spots ; stamens in the throat of the corolla 

 similar to the preceding ; style about equalling the calyx or slightly surpass- 

 ing it : nutlets similar to the preceding but black and indistinctly transversely 

 rugulose. 



This appears similar to the common coast Amsinckia 

 which has been called A . lycofsoides by both Dr. Gray and 

 Professor Greene. 



A. lycopsoides was named by Lehman without descrip- 

 tion or locality.^ The earliest description is that of Fisher 

 and Meyer, ^ for the following copy of which I am indebted 

 to the Gray Herbarium: ^^ Amsinckia lyco^soides. — A co- 

 rolla fauce, barbata, limbo tubo triplo breviore; staminibus 

 corollae tubo paulo supra basin insertis. — A. lycopsoides 

 Lehm., delect Sem. b. Hamburg, 1831. — Tubus corollae 

 3J^ lin. longus; limbus 2 lin. in diametro vix latior." De 

 Candolle ^ gives the same description, adding " caule laxe 

 ramosa" and "§ nuculse rugosse, inter rugos albo granu- 

 latae, dorso convexge, angulis parum distinctis." 



The corolla with bearded throat and stamens inserted a 

 little above the base of the corolla, as well as the rugulose 

 nutlets, white granulate between the folds, excludes this 

 island Amsinckia, as well as the plants described by Dr. 

 Gray and Professor Greene under A. lycofsoides. 



Recently, the writer collected specimens agreeing with 

 the description of A . lycopsoides. They were found on a 

 hillside on the range of hills separating Piedmont from 

 Maragua Valley in Alameda County, Calif. The type 

 locality is near Fort Ross, Sonoma Co., Calif. It would 



1 Semina in Horto Bot. Hamb., p. 7, (1831.) (Index Kewen.) 

 - Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop., Tome II, p. 26. 

 3 Prodr. Tome X, p. 117. 



