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herbarium specimens as are usually made of CE. biennis, 

 tills might pass under a superficial examination for some 

 Tery small-flowered variety of that species ; but in habit it 

 appears as something very distinct. It is so prompt an 

 annual that, while the young plants were not above ground 

 before the end of April, the flowering had begun before the 

 end of July — barely three months from the time of the 

 sowinor of the seeds. 



GoDETiA PULCHERRIMA. Puberulent, slender, erect, 1—3 

 feet high : leaves linear, acute at each end, nearly entire ; 

 calyx-tube very broad and short, nearly cyathiform ; segments 

 partly coherent and turned to one side under the open corolla: 

 petals 1^ inches long, cuneate-obovate, truncate or retuse at 

 the erose summit, lilac and streaked with white veins above, 

 whitish at the base, dotted throughout with minute elongated 

 spots of dark crimson : stamens equal ; filaments lilac ; 

 anthers white, these reaching scarcely to the middle of the 

 petals: style elongated ; stigma-lobes obovoid, purple ; cap- 

 sule linear, 1 inch long or more, distinctly pedicelled, the 

 sides scarcely costate. 



Apparently not rare in southern California, and related to 

 G> Bottce, from which it must needs be distinguished spec- 

 ifically on account of its much larger and peculiarly colored 

 corollas, purple stigma, etc. The description is drawn from 

 a specimen sent by Mrs. W. F. Wheeler of Los Angeles Co. 

 Mr. Parish's n. 1899, from Fort Tejon is apparently about 

 the same. 



Madia hispida. Madaria corfjmhosa,y^v "f hisjyida, DC. 



Prodr. V. 692 probably. Annual, rather slender, a foot or two 

 tigh, corymbosely branching from below the middle ; the 

 whole plant clothed with a whiHsh hirsute pubescence, and 

 beneath this almost muriculately scabrous : leaves alternate, 

 narrowly linear, 2—3 inches long, entire : heads on slender 

 peduncles : rays about 10, | in. long, deeply 3-lobed, bright 

 yellow: achenes compressed, lunate-claviform in outline, 

 brown, dotted with black 



