124: ERYTHEA. 



Veronica peregrina, Linn. Pasadena. 

 Sphacelefragrans, Greene. Middle Eanch Canon, Catalina 

 Island. 



Galium trifidum, Linn. Baldwin's Eanch. 



Galium grande, n. sp. Suffrutescent evergreen, the woody 

 stems 3—5 lines in diameter, 3—8 feet long, erect or reclin- 

 ing on bushes; herbaceous branches 4 — 12 inches long, 

 these and foliage cinereously hirsute or hispidulous; leaves 

 in fours, elliptic-oblong or slightly broader above the mid- 

 dle, acute (sometimes abruptly so) or acuminate, margins 

 somewhat revolute, 3—6 lines long, 1— 2| lines broad, lower 

 side lighter green : flowers numerous, polygamous, commonly 

 terminal, occasionally axillary, 1—5 on a peduncle, greenish- 

 yellow, 1 — 2-^ lines broad: ovary densely hirsute; mature 

 fruit baccate, clothed with stiff hairs, at first nearly white, 

 but soon changing to black, about 2 lines in diameter. — Col- 

 lected at various dates from April, 1893, to April, 1894, in 

 shaded soil at 2000—4000 feet elevation, along the old trail 



to Wils 



matures 



May 



Galinm occidentale, n. sp. Perennial, herbaceous, slen- 

 der, from creeping rootstocks, 4—15 inches high, whole 



m 



acute or acuminate, 3—6 lines long, 1—3 lines broad: 

 flowers few, polygamous, terminal, yellowish- white : ovary 

 densely hirsute; mature fruit baccate, clothed with scattered 

 hairs, pearly white, changing to black in drying, 1— 1| lines 

 in diameter.— Collected at various dates from May, 1893, to 

 April, 1894, at 3000—4000 feet elevation along the old Wil- 

 son trail. Blooms in May and matures its fruit in July. 

 Both growing and withering stems are present at all times 



of the year. 



Ericameria CTineata=^j>Zopa|)^Ms cuneatus^ Gray; E. 



m.OJiaetis=Aplopappus monactis, Gray. Both in Eubio 



Canon 



Hazardia squarrosa (H. & A.), Greene. Catalina Island. 



