Geek: ‘ied anee nC P paaioit a genie of tthe dh 
ae about San Francisco. Up to 1885 the ae was 
/ jocarpus ae in the saeaien Flora, jesttad in 1878. 
. In 1885, i in Bull Cal. Acad. 1: 128-151, Mrs. Curran published 
oF alist of the species named by Drs. Kellogg and Behr, and Mr. 
_Bolander. The true status of this plant was then made known 
—that it is the same as Cordylanthus maritimus Nutt. 
In June, 1902, I chanced upon it for the first time in the 
_ marshes back of Tiburon. My first thought was that it might 
be an Orthocarpus or perhaps a Castilleja. And I still think as 
I did then, that it could be equally as well placed in either of 
these genera as in the one where it now rests. Or, in other 
words, that it is out of place in any of them. Accordingly, Dr. 
Behr’s generic name may again be brought into use, and the re- 
lated species transferred to it. Cordylanthus or Adenostegta 
Kingi, although placed in the same section with the Chloropy- 
ron species, does not have the same habit, and is not here in- 
cluded. The species are as follows: 
Chloropyron maritimum (Nutt.) 
Cordylanthus maritimus Nutt.; Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10: 
598. 1846. 
Chloropyron palustre Beli, Proc. Cal. Acad. 1: 61. 1855. 
Adenostegia maritima Greene, Pittonia 2: 181. 1891. 
A coast species, ranging from San Diego north to Hum- 
boldt county, and strangely enough, reported from San Bernar- 
dino county, at a considerable distance from the coast. The 
type of the genus, and quite fittingly so, it being the first pub- 
lished species. 
