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line long. Desert plains near Verdi, in 

 the western part of Nevada (C. F. 

 Sonne)." Greene, Pittonia 1:170. 



ESCHSCHOLTZIA TEXUISECTA Greene 

 "Annual, erect, a foot high, glabrous 

 and a little glaucous: ultimate leaf- 

 segments long and slender, gradually 

 tapering from a broad obtuse or trun- 

 cate apex, widely divergent in the 

 young leaves, less so in the later ones: 

 flower buds ovate, with a long and 

 gradually attenuate acumination: in- 

 ner rim of torus nerveless and hori- 

 zontal (its margin, not its body, in 

 contact with the ovary), the outer 

 coriaceous, about a line deep, red; pet- 

 als an inch long, widely expanding, 

 bright yellow, with a liight-orange 

 base; stamens about 24; anthers linear, 

 2 lines long; cotyledons cleft below the 

 middle into 2 filiform segments. Chi- 

 co. Calif. (Parry)." Greene, Pittonia 

 1:169. 



ESCHSCHOLTZIA PARISHII Greene. 



"Annual, slender, less than 1 high, 

 glabrous and glaucous: stems simple or 

 sparingly branched: peduncles terete, 

 very slender: torus turbinate, no spread- 

 ing rim, the 2 margins similar and ap- 

 proximate: petals widely spreading, 

 broad and overlapping each other, ap- 

 parently light y.: fr. not seen." Greene, 

 Bull. Cal. Acad. Sci., i. 183 (Aug. 29, 1885). 



ESCHSCHOLTZIA PENINSULARIS Gn. 

 "Annual, smooth and glaucous, slender, 

 erect, much more branched that E. Cali- 

 fornica, with corollas of 1-3 the size and 

 more broadly campanulate: rim of torus 

 broader in proportion, the inner margin 

 a very short, nerveless, hyaline ring; seed 

 slightly elongated and distinctly apiculate 

 at each end, reticulations less regularly 

 favose." Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. Sci., i. 

 8-9 (Mar. 7, 1885); 1. c. 183. 



PSORALEA RIGIDA Parish. 



Erect. 1-2 ft high, viscid above and 

 sparsely villous with short black and 

 white hairs intermingled; Ivs pinnately 3- 

 foliate. on inch long petioles: Ifts as 

 long, ovate-lanceolate, glabrous and rig- 

 id; stipules lanceolate; peduncles shorter 

 than the leaves, bearing a globose head, 

 inch high. 20-fl'd; bracts shorter than the 

 fls. lanceolate, deciduous; calyx two- 

 thirds length of cor. its teeth acuminate, 

 the lower twice the length of the upper; 

 cor S lines long, whitish or ochroleucous, 

 the keel with a large purple spot at the 

 apex: petals very long-clawed: the tenth 

 stnmen free one- third its length; ovary 

 densely villous; pod V in. long, not wrin- 

 kled, closely conformed to the shining 

 dark seed. Dry hills. Oak Grove. S D Co 

 Je 1882 (Parish 643)." Parish, Torr cl b 

 19:91. 



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PAPAVER LEMMONI Greene. 



"Near P. Californicum, but a larger 

 and coarser plant, 1-3 ft. high; corolla 

 twice as large, 2-3 inches broad, appa- 

 rently of a deeper red, the base of the 

 petals green: capsule broader and 

 merely obovate; stigmas 7-10, their 

 lower half sessile and radiant upon 

 the summit of the capsule, upper half 

 coherent one with another and forming 

 a conical apiculation. Hilly and moun- 

 tainous region of San Luis Obispo 

 county, California (J. G. Lemmon)." 

 Greene, Pittonia 1:168. 



S1LEXA MULTINERVIA S. Watson. 



"Annual, erect, sparingly branched, 

 glandular-pubescent, about 1 high: leaves 

 linear to linear-oblong, acute, the lower- 

 most narrowly oblanceolate, 1-2' long: 

 inflorescence dichotomously cymose; 

 bracts linear: calyx narrowly ovate, 20-25 

 nerved, 5-6" long, the acuminate teeth 

 usually p. -tipped; petals purplish, scarce- 

 ly equalling the calyx, without append- 

 ages or auricles, emarginate: filaments 

 glabrous, included: capsule nearly sessile, 

 oblone-ovate, included: seeds minute, tu- 

 berculate, not crested. Found near Jamul, 

 San Diego County, by C. R. Orcutt, In 

 April, 1885, and on the island of Santa 

 Cruz, California, by T. S. Brandegee, in 

 1888." S. Watson, Proc. Am. Acad., xxv. 

 126-7 rSont. 25. 1890). 



S. conoidea Davidson, Erythea 1:58, 

 not L. 



VICIA HASSEI S. Watson. 



"Often tall: leaflets 3-6 pairs, linear to 

 narrowly oblong, acute or obtuse and apic- 

 ulate, or more frequently truncate and 

 {marginate or toothed at the apex; stipu- 

 les semi-sagittate with the rather broad 

 lower lobe usually 2-4-toothed: peduncles 

 6-15" long, 1-fl. or sometimes remotely 

 2-fl.: pod more attenuate at each end and 

 short-stipitate, 5-9-ovuled, 9-16" long. 

 On open grassy hills about Los Angeles, 

 California, growing with V. exigua; Dr. 

 H E. Hasse.Also collected at Santa Cruz 

 by Dr. C. L. Anderson, at Benicia by Dr. 

 Bigelow (V. exigua var (?) Calif ornica 

 Torr. in Pac. Railroad Rep. 4.76), and on 

 Guadelupe Island by Dr. Palmer." S. 

 Watson. Proc. Am. Acad., xxv. 129-130 

 (Sept. 25. 1890). 

 EUPHORBIA SERPYLLIFOLIA Pers. 



"Glabrous, prostrate or ascending, di- 

 cnotomously branching; stems terete, or 

 more or less angled (in the type almost 

 winged): stipules setaceous or lacerate, 

 triangular at the base; leaves short pet- 

 ioled, oblique at the base, blade varying 

 from spatulate to cblcng or obovate, apex 

 truncate or retuse and more or less cren- 

 ulate serrate. Inflorescence solitary or in 

 loose leafy clusters: involucres campanu- 

 late, the lobes triangular subulate; glands 

 transverse oblong, more or less cupped in 

 the cen*re; apper.dages narrow, 3-4- 

 crenate lobed or nearly entire; svigrmas 



