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wide areas on the sandy mesas, Parish; -Chalk Hill, Mt. San Jacinto, Jepson; Coahuilla Valley 

 to Aguanga, Jepson 1477; Julian, San Diego Co., T. Brandegee. 



Refs. AKENAKIA DOUGLASII Fenzl; T. & G. Fl. 1: 674 (1840), type from California, 

 Douglas; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 168 (1901). Alsinopsis douglasii Heller, Muhl. 8: 20 

 (1912). 



A. HOWELLII Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 20: 354 (1885), type loc. Waldo, Ore., 

 Howell. Annual ; stems erect, very slender, branching freely from the base, % to 

 V/2 feet high; herbage purplish, the leaves, nodes and sepals sparingly glandular- 

 pubescent, otherwise mainly glabrous; leaves crowded at base of stem, scat- 

 tered and reduced above, lanceolate, thickish, acutish, sessile by a broad base, 

 becoming rigid in age, 3 to 5 lines long ; petals ovate, attenuate, much exceeding 

 the abruptly acute sepals; capsule valves narrowed to an acutish apex; seeds 

 2, somewhat flattened, minutely papillate or tuberculate-crested on the margin. 

 Josephine Co., Oregon, on Shelley Creek-Waldo road near California bound- 

 ary, Jepson 2922. The plant in its early flowering stage is very similar to A. 

 douglasii; as it ages the stems become more rigid and more purple, and its 

 aspect is greatly changed. 



11. A. californica Brewer. Stems delicate and filiform, diffusely branch- 

 ing from the base, 1 to 4 inches high, the flowers loosely cymose on pedicels 

 3 to 8 lines long; herbage glabrous; leaves lanceolate, obtuse, very short, 

 slightly fleshy, 1 to 2 lines long ; sepals oblong-ovate, l 1 ^ lines long, the petals 

 oblong, l!/2 times as long; seeds small, finely roughened. 



Gravelly hillslopes or disintegrating rock outcroppings in the Coast Ranges 

 from Mt. Hamilton to Mendocino Co. and northward ; and in the Sierra Nevada 

 from El Dorado Co. north to Butte Co. ; 100 to 2000 feet. Southern Oregon. 

 Apr.-May. 



Locs. Coast Eanges: Lake Merced, San Francisco, Tracy 1815; Berkeley Hills, Tracy 

 1798; St. Helena, Clara Hunt; Kelseyville, Irwin; Scotts Valley, Lake Co., Tracy 1658; Long 

 Valley, Mendocino Co., Bolander 4684; Crane Creek, Tehama Co., Jepson. Sierra Nevada: 

 Rose Sprs., El Dorado Co., M. H. Gates; Auburn, Bolander 4543; Marysville Buttes, Jepson; 

 Rough & Ready, Nevada Co., Jepson; plains east of Chico, B. M. Austin. 



Refs. ABENAEIA CALIFORNICA Brewer, Bot. Cal. 1: 69 (1876); Bolander, Cat. PI. S. F. 

 6 (1870) as a nomen nudum; Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Cal. 168 (1901). A. brevifolia var. ? 

 californica Gray, Proe. Cal. Acad. 3: 101 (1864), based on Californian spms. by Fremont (no. 

 284) and Brewer (from Sonoma). Alsinopsis californica Heller, Muhl. 8: 10 (1912). 



12. A. pusilla Wats. Stems simple or several from the base, capillary, 1 

 to 2 inches high; leaves lanceolate, 1 to 2 lines long; sepals ovate-lanceolate, 

 acute, 1 line long; petals lanceolate or narrowly ovate, nearly transparent, 

 shorter than the sepals, or more minute, or none; stamens 3, rarely 4 or 5; 

 capsule scarcely equaling the calyx; seeds smooth. 



Dry pine woods, northern border of California and north to Washington. 

 Appears like a reduced form of A. californica. 



Locs. Quartz Valley, Siskiyou Co., Butler 619 (petals sprinkled on the upper side with small 

 roughish dots) ; Tracy 3130, on sand-dunes at Humboldt Bay, appears to be the same. 



Refs. ARENARIA PUSILLA Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 17: 367 (1882), type loc. Yreka, Greene. 

 Alsinopsis pusilla Heller, Muhl. 8: 96 (1912). 



13. A. propinqua Rich. Tufted, 1 to 3 inches high, with numerous fili- 

 form stems mostly leafy at base and ending above in a rather strict 1 to 4- 

 flowered cluster; herbage glandular-puberulent ; leaves linear-subulate, l 1 /^ 

 to 2y 2 lines long; flowers small; sepals ovate to ovate-lanceolate, acute, 1 to 

 iy 2 lines long, strongly 3-nerved on the back, larger than the petals. 



Siskiyou Co., 8000 feet. Arizona to Oregon and far northward. 

 Locs. Marble Mt., Chandler 1673. The plant of the San Bernardino Mts. referred to 

 A. verna var. hirta in Syn. Fl. I 1 : 246 belongs to the next species. 



