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bearded at base; style about twice the 

 length of the ovary, included, or slightly 

 exsert; ovary densely tomentose at the 

 summit; fr orbicular, 2-3^^ broad, with a 

 smooth, thin pericarp & scanty pulp, be- 

 coming wrinkled at maturity, enclosing 

 5 easily separated nutlets, nearly equal 

 in size, & 2-celled by a partition from the 

 ventral suture, occasionally both cells 

 feitile or more or less abortive." — Parry 

 Dav ac pr 4 36-37. Or j A salicifolia. 

 BRYANTHUS BREWERI A. Gray. 

 Crenns RHODODENDRON Linnaeus. 

 RHODODENDRON OCCIDENTALE A G 

 Azalea, 2-6° high, mts above 5000°, d 

 Genus PYROLA Tournefort. 

 PYROLA APHYLLA Smith. 

 PYROLA PICTA Smith. 



Genus SARCODES Torrey. 

 BARCODES SANGUINBA Torr. 

 PTEROSPERA ANDROMBDEA Nutt. 



PLUMBAGINACEAE. 

 Genus STATICE Linnaeus. 



BTATICE LIMONIUM Linn. 

 V californica G da 1 1 



LENNOACEAE 

 Genus PHOLISMA Nuttall. 



PHOLISMA ARENARIUM Nutt. 

 PIIOLISMA DEPRESSUM Greene. 



"Stems solitary, completely covered 

 by the rhombic-ovate, or sometimes ob- 

 long, closely imbricated scales, fls in a 

 depressed, barely convex head, an inch 

 or 2 broad: sepals 6, linear-filiform, mi- 

 nutely glandular ciliolate: corolla tubu- 

 lar-funnelform, 6-lobed, lilac-p: stamens 

 shorter & style longer than in P. arenari- 

 um." — Ge ca ac b I 198 j 



Genns AMMOBROMA Torrey. 

 AMMOBROMA SONORAE Torr. 



PRIMTJLACEAE. 

 Genns DODECATIIEOIV. lilnnaous. 



DODECATHEON CLEVELANDI Greene 

 "A foot or 2 high, pale green & glan- 

 dular: new roots formed not at the end 

 of the dry season but at its beginning, 

 remaining dormant through the summer, 

 no tubers formed either originally or by 

 root-metamorphosis: leaves scarcely 



& Nature. 



119 



fleshy, not depressed but ascending or 

 erect, spatulate-obovate, the margin ^ 

 erose: fls 5-merous: corolla bright-p with 

 a y base & some dark-p spots next the 

 androecium: androecium about 3''^ long 

 filaments connate, the tube dark-p, the 

 ornate exterior of each filament chang- 

 ing to y at the base of the anther & con- 

 tinued up the back of it nearly to the 

 apex in a lanceolate form & l>ing in ir- 

 regular folds; anthers otherwise p, not 

 quite twice the length of the stamineal 

 tude, slightly divergent around the mod- 

 erately exserted pistil, retiise at the 

 rather blunt apex: capsu'e oblong, ( ir- 

 cumscissile at ton: seeds reddish-brown, 

 somewhat cubical, the testa sinu ui^ly 

 reticulate." — Ge pitt i 2i4 Orsj 



da II. Or W 7 128 {a v alba & splen 

 dens), giant cyclamen, shoot irg star. 

 DODECATHEON ELLIPTICUM Nutt. 

 DODECATHEON HENDERSONI A. G. 

 DODECATHEON JEPFRBYI Moore, 



Ge ca ac b i 406 sz; pitt i 210, 214 



These are mostly considered as forms 

 of one species — the I). Meadia of Linn. 



Genus ANAGALLIS Tournefort. 

 ANAGALIS ARVBNSIS Linn. 



Poor man's weather glass da 11, Or j 

 Genus SAMOLl'S Linsaaeus. 

 SAMOLUS VALERANDI Linn. 

 V americana G da 11 Ge ca ;ic b i 406 



Genns CENTCNCt L.US Linnaeus. 

 CENTUNCULUS MINIMUS Linn. 



Genus GLAUX Linnaeus. 



GLAUX MARITIMA Linn. 

 G. maritima L. Sea-milkwort, in saline 

 soil round the northern hemisphere. 



STYRACEAE. 

 Genus STVRx\X Tournefort. 



STYRAX CALIFORNICA Torr. 



OLEACEAE. 

 Genus MElVOiJORA Humb. & Bonpl. 



MENODORA SCABRA A. Gray. 

 MBNDORA SCOPARIA Engelm. 



Genn.s KRAXIXLS Tournefort. 



FRAXINUS DIPETALA H. & A. 



Flowering ash. j da 11 

 FRAXINUS OREGANA Nuttall. 



APOCYNACEAE. 



