34 PITTONIA. 
GALIUM FLACCIDUM. Perennial, herbaceous, hirsute-pubes- 
cent, the weak reclining stems a foot long: leaves in fours, a 
half-inch long, narrowly oblong, obtuse or acutish, very thin, 
l-nerved: peduncles slender, 4-bracted below the solitary 
greenish flower: ovary villous: fruit unknown. 
Shady woods on the north side of Santa Cruz Island, not 
common: resembling G. Californicum, but doubtless a dry- 
fruited species allied to the Mexiean G. uncinulatum. 
GALIUM MIGUELENSE. Suffrutescent, evergreen, the pros- 
trate stems 6—18 inches long, whole plant covered with a 
sparse retrorse pubescence: leaves oval, acute, 11— 21 lines 
long, dark green, coriaceous, in age deflexed and almost im- 
brieated on the branches: berry large, glabrous, pearl-white : 
flowers not seen. 
Island of San Miguel: a single large matted plant on a 
grassy slope above the western shore of Cuyler’s Harbor. 
Greatly resembling the South American G. Relbun ; but that 
has a different pubescence and red berries. 
CALAIS PLURISETA. Glabrous: proper stem 2—4 inches 
high; scapose peduncles 8—10 inches: leaves very narrowly 
oblanceolate and apparently quite entire, at most only denti- 
culate : akenes 24 lines long; pappus pale persistent, linear- 
lanceolate, 14 lines long, scarcely notched, the very slender 
awn 24 lines, subtended by a secondary awnlet on either side, 
one of these frequently one-third or one-half as long as the 
primary, the other shorter, or both nearly obsolete. 
Island of Santa Cruz, 1886. The species apparently abun- 
dant; the plants all dead and the foliage rather imperfectly 
preserved ; but the akenes, exhibiting well the characters of 
a very striking new species, were gathered in abundance from 
their lurking places, the cracks in the dry, sun-burnt soil. 
[ ARCTOSTAPHYLOS, MYRTIFOLIA, Parry.  ($ miIcrococcvs). 
Shrub 1—3 feet high, widely branched from the base, with 
shreddy bark, becoming smooth with age; leaves entire, 
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