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202 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
winged; style shorter than the ovary, 1-2 mm. long; stigma-lips 
unequal; capsule obovate or oval, stipitate; seeds oval, papillate. 
Distribution: low wet fields from northern California to Lower 
ifornia. 
Specimens examined: 
California: Chico-Hamilton Road, 6 miles from Chico, 1 May, 
1914, Heller 11343 (Cornell, M, Ore., Calif., and Stanford); 
Little Chico Creek, Butte Co., 1896, Austin 164 (M and Calif.); 
Lower Sacramento, 2-6 May, 1891, Jepson (R. Mt. and Calif.); 
Lower Napa Valley, 27 April, 1893, Jepson 31m (Calif.); 
Montezuma Hills, Solano Co., 14 May, 1892, Jepson 32m 
(Calif.); Bartlett Mt., May, 1884, 7. S. Brandegee (Calif.); 
Little Oak, Vacaville, Solano Co., April, 1889, Jepson 33m 
(Calif.); near Mt. Diablo, 26 May, 1862, Brewer 1161 (G, 
ТҮРЕ, U. S., and Calif); Mt. Diablo, 1884, Curran (б); 
Antioch, May, 1886, Curran (M. and Calif.); Antioch, May, 
1888, T. S. Brandegee (Phil, M, and Stanford); Antioch, 
May, 1889, T. S. Brandegee (Calif.); Antioch, 7 April, 1885, 
Davy 933 (Calif.); wet depressions in adobe, between Antioch 
and Marsh Creek, 5 May, 1907, К. Brandegee (Calif.) ; between 
San Benito River and Bitterwater, San Benito Co., 2700 ft. 
alt., 21 May, 1915, H. M. Hall 9907 (Calif.); Kaweah, Tulare 
Co., 27 May, 1895, Eastwood (G); Menifee Valley, Riverside 
Co., 19 June, 1922, Munz & Johnston 5378 (Pomona) ; Chollas, 
San Diego Co., 20 June, 1884, Orcutt 1179 (G and M). 
Mexico: | 
Lower California: Hansen's, Lower California, 7 July, 1889, 
Orcutt (M); Santo Tomas, northern Lower California, 17 
April, 1886, Orcutt (M); mountains, Lower California, 7 July , 
1885, Orcutt (M); Santo Tomas, northern Lower California, 
21 April, 1886, Orcutt (M). 
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32. M. acutidens Greene in Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 17. 
1885; Eastwood, Fl. South Fork King's River, Sierra Club Publ. 
27:66. 1902. т 
M. inconspicuus var. acutidens (Greene) Gray, Syn. FL N. 
Аш. ed. 2, 21; Suppl. 450. 1886. : 
Mostly glabrous annuals; stem 7-20 cm. high, slender, erec 
