40 PITTONIA. 
Hough's Springs, Lake County, July, 1884, Mrs. Curran. 
Differing from its near relative of the north in its very small 
and abruptly narrowed perianth, and slender habit. 
ATRIPLEX NODOSA. Annual, stout, less than a foot high, 
with many divarieately spreading, rigid branches: scurfy- 
mealy and apparently scabrous: leaves broadly rhomboid : 
fruit clusters large, borne at the nodose-enlarged forks of the 
branches: pedicels stout, thickened under the bracts, very 
unequal, 1—5 lines long: bracts 2 lines long, 3-nerved, 3- 
lobed at summit and below it covered with ore leafy- 
spongy projections. 
A single late autumnal, nearly dead specimen, obtained by 
Mrs. Curran near Antioch in October, 1885. Near A. argen- 
lea, but with remarkably swollen joints, and very peculiar 
fruit clusters and bracts ; the latter rendered globose by ap- 
pendages resembling the thallus of some lichen. 
QUERCUS PARVULA. Near Q. Wislizeni, only 2—3 feet high : 
leaves persistent, coriaceous, dark green, 14—3 inches long, 
ovate-lanceolate, acute, mostly entire, no veins prominent ex- 
cept the middle one beneath: fructification biennial: acorns 
(immature) solitary, short-peduncled; cup deep, covered 
with brown, ovate-oblong, obtuse, ciliolate scales which are 
Spree jinbnodant up and down the middle. 
Northward slope of Santa Cruz Island ; forming low clumps, 
chiefly along the borders of the pine woods; not frequent, - 
but a clear new species. 1 
