MISCELLANEOUS SPECIES. 71 
glabrous and their spinose tips reflexed, none gland-bearing : 
corollas bright purple, their linear obtuse lobes much shorter 
than the tube. 
By streamlets in the mountains at Pt. Pietras; San Mateo 
County, California, collected by the writer, June 10, 1887. 
Related to C. edulis but distinguished by its very ample 
somewhat succulent and quite decurrent leaves, as well as by 
the two different kinds of involucral scales, the inner being 
appressed and glabrous with reflexed spines while the outer 
are just those of C. edulis. 
TROXIMON ELATUM. Annual, erect, 12—18 inches high, the 
proper stem 4—6 inches, simple below, above producing 6—10 
elongated naked peduncles: pubescence sparse and hirsute 
or none: leaves oblanceolate, the lowest pinnatifid, the upper 
with few scattered and coarse teeth or lobes: ligules large, 
the expanded head more than an inch in diameter: akenes 
with or without wing-like costz, the latter when present erose- 
denticulate and more or less undulate ; pappus brownish, the 
filiform stipe 3—4 lines long. 
Plains of the lower Sacramento, California: collected by 
the writer, near Elmira, May 3, : 
An ally of T. heterophyllum which is seldom half as large, 
and which in all its forms is marked by small ligules, such as 
when fully expanded, make a disk less than a half inch in 
diameter. 
GiLIA (NAVARRETIA) MELLITA. Slender and low, 2—5 inches 
high and with ascending or spreading branches, the branches 
glandular-villous: herbage very viscid and honey-scented : 
lowest leaves divided pinnately into subulate-acerose spine- 
like segments, those of the upper leafy-dilated and spine- 
tipped: corolla narrowly tubular-funnelform, not exceeding 
the calyx, very pale blue: stamens included. 
Collected near Belmont, San Mateo County, California, 
June 23, 1886. 
