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Type from Calico Lakes, Alpine Co., Mr. Hansen. It has 
also been received from the Yosemite, and elsewhere in the 
higher Sierra. The not deep-seated root, the decumbent 
stems, etc., seem to indicate that it is a plant of dry ground, 
whereas the typical S. triangularis is of marshy places. 
Allocarya vestita. Annual, stout, suberect or ascending, 
2 feet high or more, the ample linear-lanceolate leaves 
strigosely, the branches and inflorence more densely and 
stiffly hirsute: flowers and fruit in many somewhat short 
and dense bractless spikes: nutlets narrowly ovate, ? line 
long, not carinate on the back, but very conspicuously and 
regularly favose-reticulate and the surface within the 
meshes strongly tuberculate, the ventral face very strongly 
carinate down to the suprabasal ovate-lanceolate scar, this 
surrounded by a horse-shoe-shaped ridge. 
Allied to A. mollis, a low soft-villous perennial whose 
nutlets are marked on the back by low transverse ruge 
which are as far as possible from running into any kind of 
reticulation, and the scar of which is on a level with the 
general surface, with no trace of an encircling mark or 
ridge; the whole nutlet being dull and pale, whereas that of 
this new species is dark and vitreous. I have my type 
specimen from Mr. J. W. Congdon, said to have been col- 
lected near Petaluma, California, in 1880. 
Allocarya myriantha, Annual, diffuse, the slender pros- 
trate or trailing branches commonly 1 to 14 feet long, leafy 
below, floriferous throughout: flowers of the leafy and lower 
parts of the branches on short and slender pedicels, all the 
others subsessile and forming close unilateral spikes: cor- 
ollas white, 14 lines wide: nutlets rather narrowly ovate, 
about # line long, dark-brownish and somewhat vitreous- 
glossy, marked dorsally by prominent obtuse transverse and 
more or less sinuous ridges, and numerous low tubercu- 
lations, the narrowly linear scar and distinct keel lying 
within a narrow groove formed by the closely approximated 
and thus quite displaced lateral angles. 
