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Plantago patagonica Californica Greene 

 Man bay reg. 235 (1894). 



California; Orepfon. 

 PLANTAGO VIRGINICA Linn. 

 NYCTAGINACEAE. 

 Genu.^ MIRABILIS Linnaeus. 

 MIRABILIS CALIFORNICA A. Gray. 

 MIRABILIS PROEBELII Behr. 

 MIRABILIS LAEVIS Curran. 

 MIRABILIS MULTIFLORA A. Gray. 

 MIRABILIS TBNUILOBA S. Watson. 



(jienns AliLIOXIA Lilnnaexts. 



ALLIONIA INCARNATA Linn. 



Genus ABROXIA Jnssien. 



ABRONIA LATIFOLIA Esch. 



arenari" IMenzies 



ABRONIA MARITIMA Nutt. 

 ABRONIA TURBINATA Torr. 

 ABRONIA UMBHLLATA Lam. 



POLYGONUM AMPHIBIUM Linn. 

 POLYGONUM AVICULARE Linn. 

 POLYGONUM BISTORTA Linn. 

 POLYGONUM HARTWRIGHTTI A. G. 

 POLYGONUM HYDROPIPEROIDES Mx. 

 POLYGONUM INCI'RVATUM Ell. 

 POLYGONUM NODOSUM Pers. 

 POLYGONUM TENUE Michx. 



Genus NEMACALLIS Xnttall. 



NEMACAULIS DENUDATA Nutt. " 



Genus ERIOGOXIJM Miclix. 



ES,IOaONrtJM CLAVATUM Small. 



"Annual, acaulescent. Leaves basal; 

 blades 5-13 mm. broad, much broader 

 than long, undulate, strigose- hispid on 

 both sides, cordate at the base or rarely 

 truncate; petioles about twice as long as 



ABP.ONIA VILLOSA S. Watson. *i, ui j l- -j 



"Pubescence mere or less densely vil- tne blades, hispid: scapes erect, sohtary, 



lous. subg'ianduhir, spreading; stems weak o-laimnnc fr^rl^aA-^u^-,'^ t-u^ ■,i4.;»,,„+« a: 



and slender: leaves %-!' long, oblong glaucous, torked above, the ultimate di- 



or ovate, obtuse or acutish, attenuate into vision filiform, the lower internodes 



slender petiole; heads 5-10-flowered; in- „ , ,, , . • , ,, 



volucral scales narrowly lanceolate, log- more or less swollen above the middle: 



acuraiKate, 3-4" long; 11. pink, the lobes bracts scale-like: peduncles hair-like, 'A 

 obcoidate with a deep sinus; fr. with a . ""v^-, /z 



firm body, strongly reticulate-pitted, the cm. long, spreading: involucres narrow- 



£-5 broad v/ings consisting of a simple i„ 4.,,^k;^„«- 11 1 ii_ 



lamina, usually truncate above. Nearest ^V turbinate, very small, less than I mm. 



to A. umbellata, Arizona OVheeler)."-- long; segments obtuse, as broad as long, 



S. A\nt?on, Arr.pr. Natl., vn. 6 (May 1873). , , , 



OXYBAPHU3 NYCTAGINEUS Sweet. ' ... •• . . 



Genns BOERHAAVIA Linnaeus. 



BOEBHAAVIA ERECTA Linn. 

 BOERHAAVIA VISCOSA A. Gray. 



POLYGONACEAE. 



Genus RUMEX Linnaeus. 



RUMEX ACETOSEi^LA Linn. 

 RUM EX CONGLOMERATUS Mun. 

 RUMEX CRISPUS Linn. 



RUMEX HY.MENOSEPALUS Torr. 



shorter than the tube: calices densely 

 hirsute less than i mm. long, the seg- 

 ments nearly equal, ovate-lanceolate, a- 

 cutish: filaments glabrous." — Small, j 

 ERIOGONUM GLAUCUM Small. 



"Annual, slender, acaulescent. Leaves 

 basal; blades ovate or oval-ovate, 5-10 

 mm long, obtuse, undulate-crisped, of- 

 "Sandy soils from El Paso to the can- ^^" inequilateral, softly hispid on both 

 vonsofthe Rio Grande; Mr-Ap. Root surfaces, obtuse or subcordate at the 

 white Stem 2-3° high. 'Foliage inten- ^^^^' Petioles 2-3 times longer than the 

 .>^.ely bitter;' Thurber. Lower leaves a ft blades, hirsute: scapes erect, solitary or 

 or m.-re long A 2-3^ wide, somewhat un- several together, 1-6 cm. tall, glaucous, 



dulate on the margin: upper ones nearly 

 flat. Panicle a ft long, fls crowded. In- 

 ner sepals of the fructiferous calyx near- 

 ly H^ long, roundish-ovate, strongly cor- 

 date, of a very thin texture, often rose- 

 colored, slightly reticulate-veined, twice 

 's long as the achenium." * * * Torr bot 

 m boundary 177-8. Or 71 j; d; z; da 14 

 RUMEX MARITIMUS Linn. 

 RUMEX SALICIFOLIUS Wein. 



Genus POLYGO\'LM Linnaeus. 



POLYGONUM ACRE H B K. 



forked, the branches ascending or 

 spreading: peduncles filiform, about one 

 cm. long, more or less spreading: invo- 

 lucres glabrous, turbinate, i mm. long; 

 segments oblongs, obtuse, about as long 

 as the tube: calices densely hirsute, 2 

 mm. long; segments lanceolate, acute, 

 erect; filaments glabrous." — Small, Bull. 

 Torr. club, xxv, 51, Ja. 25, 1898. e 

 ERIOGONUM RUBESCENS Greene. 



"Near E. grande but low, the depress- 

 ed leafy caudex only a few inches long: 



