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few apparently simple hairs, the foliage beneath, and also the 
calyx, more densely short-pubescent: racemes few, panicu- 
lately disposed: calyx segments acute or almost acuminate: 
petals very small (4 to 4 inch long), rose-color, round- 
obovate, erose at summit but neither emarginate nor even 
truncate: achenes rather notably angular but smooth. 
In brackish or sub-alkaline marshes of Los Angeles and 
San Bernardino Counties, California; collected by Dr. 
Hasse at Santa Monica, and by Mr. Parish near San 
Bernardino (n. 2080); nearly allied to that easterly Rocky 
Mountain and Mexican species, S. malveflora, to which, 
indeed, I had referred Mr. Parish’s specimen, though Dr. 
Gray had more unaccountably named it in Mr. Parish’s 
herbarium “S. glaucescens, Greene,” to which sub-alpine and 
northern species it is not near of kin. 
Ceanothus pumilus. A rigid depressed much branched 
evergreen undershrub, the branches often rooting at the 
joints and from a few inches to a foot or more in length: 
leaves opposite, very small (3 to 5 lines long), rigidly 
coriaceous, glabrous above, very minutely white-tomentose 
between the veins beneath, entire except at the usually 
3-toothed apex, the general outline from oblanceolate to 
obovate-oblong: flowers in numerous sessile umbels, rather 
pale blue: fruit unknown. 
On hillsides near Waldo, Oregon, April, 1892, Thomas 
Howell. 
Eriophyllum speciosum. Suffrutescent and very leafy 
proper stem strictly erect, soon dividing into numerous 
erect, subequal, long pedunculiform monocephalous branches; 
herbage in no part either white or hoary, but branches and 
lower face of leaves canescent with a sparse arachnoid, or 
more dense and somewhat floccose pubescence; surface of 
the leaves glabrate and green even when young: leaf-texture 
soft (not at all coriaceous): leaves 2 or 3 inches long, linear- 
lanceolate, acute, entire, or the largest with a few coarse 
teeth of lobes: peduncles a foot long: involucre short-cam- 
