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214. Nes^ea salictfolia HBK. — San Jose del Cabo, 

 Sierra de la Laguna. 



215. Epilobium Parishii Trelease. — Zoe, i, 210. 



216. Jussi^^A REPENs L. var. Californica Watson. 

 Common in damp soil about Todos Santos, San Jose del 

 Cabo. 



217. Jussi^A ocTONERViA Lam.— San Jose del Cabo. 



218. QlNOTHERA Drummondii Hook, var. — No. 35, 

 Xantus, Proc. Am. Acad., viii, 581. This must be the 

 plant of Xantus although the ovary and calyx lobes are 

 nearly as densely pubescent as the leaves. — A littoral 

 plant common between Rancho Tomate and Todos San- 

 tos, and also seen on the Gulf shore. 



219. CEnothera rosea Ait. — Sierra de la Laguna. 



220. Oenothera sinuata L. — Tops of the high 

 mountains, generally distributed. 



221. Lopezia clavata Brandegee. — Very abundant 

 on the high mountains. 



222. Gaura parviflora Dougl. — San Jose del Cabo. 



223. Mentzelia adherens Benth. — Todos Santos, 

 San Jose del Cabo. 



224. Mentzelia aspera L. Leaves often not all 

 lobed; corolla more than twice the length of the calyx, 

 the segments united at base ; filaments irregular in length 

 and indefinite, 5-10 of the outer ones dilated; the upper 

 part of the calyx promptly circumscissile from the ovary ; 

 seeds few, lobed, ver}^ rough and oblique. — San Jose del 

 Cabo. 



It is possible that there are two species confused under 

 the name. The form here described, represented also 

 by Palmer's No. loi from Southwestern Chihuahua, is 

 apparently nearest the West Indian original. Pringle's 



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