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HORSFORDIA PALMERI S. Watson. 

 Genus ABITIL.OX Tournefort. 



ABUTI.LON ATTRANTIACUM S. Wats. 

 "Woody at base, the herbaceous stems 

 1/^-2° high, pubescent and somewhat vil- 

 lous: leaves densely soft-tomentose, vel- 

 vety and whitish, round-cordate, acute, 

 the rounded basal lobes overlapping, un- 

 equally serrate, ^-IVz' broad, shorter 

 than the petioles: fl. axillary and solitary, 



on villous-pub^ecent pedicels, which are 

 as long as the petioles and mostly jointed 



near the base or the lower above the mid- 

 dle: calyx-lobes broadly ovate, acute; 

 corolla bright orange, 6-9" long: calyx 

 and fr. villous-pubescent; carpels 10, 

 abruptly short-beaked, 3-seeded, 4" 

 long, about equalling the calyx. On Todos 

 Santos Bay, Lower California, by C. C. 

 Parry, January, 1883, and at Tia Juana, by 

 C. R. Orcutt, in May of the same year."— 

 S. Watson, Proc. Am. Acad., xx. 357 

 (Feb. 21, 1885). 



ABUTILON CRISPUM Sweet. 

 ABUTILON LEM^IONI S. Watson. 



"Perennial, the stout half-woody 

 branching stems 1-2° high, hoary through- 

 out with a very dense short stellate 

 pubescence. Its stellate character scarce- 

 ly perceptible on the calyx: leaves cor- 

 date to cordate-lanceolate, acute or 

 slightly acuminate, dentate, the blade 

 usually 1' or less (sometimes 2') long, 

 about equalling or shorter than the slen- 

 der petioles, slightly greener above: pe- 

 duncles axillary, solitary, shorter than 

 the leaves, joined near the top: calyx 

 with broadly ovate acute lobes; corolla 

 y. or orange, small (3-4'' lonjg): carpels 

 about 9, acute, 4-5" long, finely pubescent, 

 3-seeded, equalling or a little exceeding 

 the enlarged calyx." — S. Watson, Proc. 

 Am. Acad., xx. 357-8 (Feb. 21, 1S85). 



STEBCITLIACEAE. 



Genns FREMOXTIA Torrey. 



FREMONTIA CALIFORNICA Torrey. 

 Fremontodendron californlcum Cv 4:74. 



AYENIA PUSILLJL Linn. 



lilNACEAE. 

 Genus LIXl'M Linnaens. 



LINUM PERENE Linn. 



ZYGOPHYLLACEAE. 

 Genus TRIBILLS Linnaeus. 



TRIBULUS GRANDIFLORUS B. & H. 

 TRIBULUS MAXIMUS Linn. 



Genus FAGOXIA Linnaeus. 



FAGONIA CAfclFORNICA Benth. 

 Genus LARREA Cav. 



LARREA MEXICANA Moric. 

 GERANIACEAE. 

 Genus GERAXirM Linnaeus. 



GERANIUM CAESPITOSUM James. 



GERANIUM CAROLINIANUM Linn. 

 Genus EROI)lL>3 L'Herit. 



ERODIUM CICUTARIUM L'Herit. 

 ERODIUM MACROPHYLLUM H. & A. 

 ERODIUM MOSCHATUM L'Herit. 

 ERODIUM TEXANUM A. Gray. 

 Limnanihes douglasii It iJr ua 4 



Genus OXALIS Linnaeus. 



OXALIS CORNICULATA Linn. 



Fls lemon y, veined with crimson, near the 

 center & on back of petals 4 calyx deeply tiu- 

 ged with carmine. s j 



OXALIS OREGANA Nutt. 

 OXALIS WRIGHTII A. Gray. 

 RTTTACEAE. 

 Genus PTELEA Linnaeus. 

 PTELEA APTERA Parry. 



Genus THAMXOSMA Torrey. 



THAMNOSMA MONTANUM Torr. 



Geoius CXEORIDIIM Hool&er, £. 



CNEORIDIUM DUMOSUM Hook. f. 

 CELASTRACEAE. 

 Genus ELNOiX VMLS Tournefort. 



EUONYMUS PARISHIl Trelease. 



rhamnaceae. 



Genus ZIZYI'HIS Juss. 



ZIZYPHUS PARRYI Torr. 



Parry's lotus or jujube is found in 

 gravelly ravines near San Felipe and 

 Rock Springs, in San Diego county, 

 south into Lower California, and east 

 of San Bernardino. The fruit is %-% 

 inch long, of a dull brownish cadmium 

 yellow color, mealy and dry. It is 

 an unsymmetrical thorny shrub, 4-15 

 feet high. Said to make excellent jelly 

 like its near relatives, the classic lotus 

 and jujubes, so well known as the 

 source of jellies and confections of 

 various kinds. 



Genus RHAMNUS Linnaeus. 



RHAMNUS CALIFORNICA Esch. 

 RHAMNUS CROCEA Nutt. 



Rhamnus tomentella Bth. — This 

 shrub or small tree, evidently restricted 

 in its distribution to the mountains of 

 San Bernardino (Parish) and San 

 Diego counties and of northern Baja 



