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Amarantus alhus, L. Avalon, Catalina Island. 

 Silene Palmeri, Wats. Mt. Lowe. 

 Alsine nitens, Greene. Canons of Catalina Island. 

 Loeflingia squarrosa, Nutt. Near Kedondo. 

 Papapaver Californicum, Gray. Hills near Pasadena. 



Cotyledon Nevadefisis, Wats. Foothills of San Gabriel 

 Mountains. 



Saxifraga Californica, Greene. Arroyo Seco. 



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Oak Knoll. 



Kibes hesperium, n. sp. Shrub 5—10 feet high with 

 spreading branches; stems smooth, beset with dark colored 

 spines which are commonly single, but occasionally double 

 or triple; leaves, inflorescence and young branches puberulent; 

 leaves thin, |— If in. broad, 3-5-lobed, the lobes incised; 

 peduncles 1— 2-flowered, 2-3 lines long; pedicels about 3 

 lines long; bracts broad, fan-shaped with ciliated membran- 

 ous pinkish margin; flowers about | in. long; calyx-tube 

 campanulate, slightly inflated, about 1 line long; segments 

 from greenish-white to greenish-red, 3—4 lines long; petals 

 white tinged with red, about half the length of the sepals, 

 euneate-oblong, 2- or 3-toothed, slightly involute; filaments 

 about half longer than petals; anthers ovate-oblong, mucro- 

 nate, greenish; ovary densely echinate, bristles greenish-red, 

 mature berry very prickly, ^— | in. in diameter.-Common 

 m shaded canons of San Gabriel Mountains, flowering in 

 January and February; fruit ripe in June and July. Col- 

 lected at various times during 1893 and winter of '94. Fruit 

 edible and of agreeable flavor. 



, , . ^- sp. Shrub 3—8 ft. high, rigid stems 



and branches beset with yellowish-brown (commonly triple) 

 spines, often setose-hispid; leaves, inflorescence and young 

 branches glandular, pubescent and bitterish fragrant ; leaves 

 thm, |-1| in. broad, 3— 5.1obed and incised; peduncles 1- or 

 2-flowered, 3—5 lines long; pedicels each with a round-ovate 



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