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aments nearly sessile, of 6 to 8 whorls of broad bracts; perianth 
round-ovate, slightly exserted ; anthers 5 to 8, stipitate : fertile flowers 
3 to 5 lines long, on atvery short peduncle, of 5 or 6 whorls of thin 
broadly dilated unguiculate more or less crenulate bracts: fruit solitary 
or in threes, oblong-lanceolate, scabrous, 4 lines long or less: micro- 
pyle a line or two long. — New Mexico to S. Utah; Fronteras 
(n. 1883, Wright) ; El Paso (Bigelow) ; Santa Fé (n. 80, Rothrock) ; 
S. Utah (n. 250, Parry, 1874). 
ErHepRA CALirornica. Stems ascending or decumbent, the 
ternate branches not spinose: scales in threes, sheathing but soon 
splitting to the base and recurved, 1} to 3 lines long, the oblong 
acutish lobes long-persistent, becoming dark-colored: staminate aments 
globose, sessile, of 4 whorls of nearly distinct bracts; perianth broad, 
included; anthers 4 or 5, sessile: fertile flowers sessile, of 4 or 5 
whorls of rather rigid scarious reniform-orbicular sessile bracts, the 
upper with a broad and very short claw: fruit solitary, ovate, some- 
what 4-angled, acutish, smooth, 3 to 3} lines long. —San Diego 
County, California; promontory near San Diego and Jamul Valley, 
Dr. E. Palmer (n. 364 and 365, 1875). 
Cupressus GuapALupensis. A widely spreading tree, becoming 
40 feet high or more, and 2 to 5 feet in diameter, with grayish-brown 
bark cleaving off in thin plates and leaving the thin inner bark with 
a smooth claret-red surface: branches drooping and branchlets very 
slender: foliage glaucous-green, the acute or acutish leaves very 
obscurely glandular on the back: cones globose, an inch or more in 
diameter, of 6 or 8 very thick and strongly bossed scales: seeds 
numerous, large (3 lines long or more). — On Guadalupe Island, off 
the coast of Lower California; distributed as C. macrocarpa in 
Dr. E. Palmer’s collection from that island. In cultivation about 
San Francisco, and likely to prove very valuable for ornamental 
purposes. 
ZeuPHYRANTHES TREATIZ. Bulb small (a half-inch in diameter): 
leaves thick, semi-terete with rounded margins, very narrow (rarely 
14 lines wide), deep green and not shining: scape 4 to 12 inches 
high: spathe in the fresh flower closely sheathing the ovary and stout 
peduncle: flower 3 inches long, white becoming pinkish; segments 
obtusish: anthers short, 14 to 3 lines long: capsule broader than long 
(5 or 6 lines), on a peduncle 3 to 9 lines long. —In wet or moist 
places, Florida ; near Green Cove Springs, Mrs. Mary Treat; on the 
St. John’s River, near Jacksonville, Dr. E. Palmer and A. H. Curtiss. 
Distributed as Amaryllis Atamasco in the collections of the latter. It 
