112 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. [Proc. 3D Ser. 



61. Lycium Californicum Nutt., in Herb. Bot. Cal., 

 Vol. II, p. 542, "near San Diego." 



This grew in sheltered, moist nooks with Ofuntia. Re- 

 ported from Santa Catalina and San Clemente. 



SCROPHULARIACE^. 



62. Orthocarpus purpurascens Benth., in DC. Prodr., 

 Tome X, p. 536. "Nova California, Douglas." 



Reported from Santa Cruz and Santa Catalina. This 

 from San Nicolas is a very poor specimen, not more than 

 three inches tall, the spike about an inch long. It was col- 

 lected in one locality, a moist fiat on the ridge. 



PLANTAGINACEvE. 

 63. Plantago insularis, sp. nov. 



Canescent with long, fine, silky hairs, very dense on the peduncles below 

 the spikes : leaves broadly lanceolate-acuminate, narrowed to a broad peti- 

 ole, a few callous teeth on the margin, 3-nerved, 5-9 cm. long, 5-12 mm. 

 wide ; peduncles 4-10 cm. long, rather stout : spikes oblong-linear, 1-2 cm. 

 long, 8-10 mm. wide, densely flowered ; bracts broadly ovate, about equal- 

 ling the calyx ; corolla 2>^ mm. in diameter, with ovate-orbicular, abruptly 

 acuminate lobes, brown at base ; stamens and style exserted ; seeds two, 

 cymbiform as in P. Patagonica and its allies. 



Found on sea-shore flats. 



This might be included as a variety of the very polymor- 

 phous P. Patagonica, but owing to its different appear- 

 ance, though the flowers are similar, it seems most con- 

 venient to consider it a distinct species. 



COMPOSITE. 



64. Malacothrix indecora Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. Sci., 

 Vol. II, p. 152. "Islets close to the northern shore of 

 Santa Cruz Island." 



