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geles Co.; Ft. Tejon (Parish n. 1899), 

 "aparently not rare in southern Cal." 



HIPPURIS VULGARIS L. 



"Springing from a perennial rootstocK, 

 with annual, simple, erect stems and 

 whorls of 6-12 or more 1-nerved linear 01- 

 lanceolate leaves which are more or less 

 decayed (sphacelated) at the tips, and 10- 

 20 mm long by 1-3 mm broad. Stamens 

 with short, thick filaments and compara- 

 tively large 2-celled anthers, which de- 

 hisce laterally. Fruit oval, or somewhat 

 4-sided, hollow in the interior, 2 or 3 mm 

 long, stigmas persistent. Common in 

 Arctic America and Canada. It occurs al- 

 so in Moosehead Lake, Maine (Porter), 

 w.est to Oregon, and thence to California 

 (Parish) and New Mexico. Mr. Safford 

 sends it from the Straits of Magellan, and 

 it is common in Europe and Central 

 Asia." Morong, Torr bot cl b 18:231. 

 PLATYSTIGMA CALIFORNICUM B.-H. 



"3-10' high: radical leaves entire, the 

 laminal portion rhombic-ovate, acutish: 

 cauline spatulate to linear, obtuse, sharp- 

 ly denticulate: petals narrowly oblong, 2" 

 long: stamens 6-9. Temecula Canon, north 

 of San Luis Rey, in San Diego county, 

 Cal., March 27. 1885, by the writer." 

 Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. Sci., ii. 59 (Mar. 

 6, 1886). 

 DRABA CUNEIFOLIA Xutt. 



Small (1 or 2 in. high) with small and 

 mostly entire leaves, and glabrous 

 pods on pedicels about a line long. 

 Coast ranges of southern Cal." S. 

 Watson, Am ac pr 23:256. 



ERIOGOXUM ORCUTTIANUM S. Wats. 



"Of the E. Heermanni group: the very 

 short herbaceous leaf stems from a woody 

 base, and the rigid divaricate branches 

 finely subtomentose-pubescent: leaves 

 scattered, thick, nearly glabrous, broadly 

 ovate or obovate, obtuse, shortly petiol- 

 ate, 3 s" long: bracts ternate, deltoid- 

 subulate, small, subherbaceousi involu- 

 cres solitary, tubinate-campanulate, sub- 

 tomentose, nearly 1" ;ong: fl. tom- 

 entose,, greenish white, 2-3" long, 

 the oblong-obovate lobes of the perianth 

 nearly equal." S. Watson. Proc. Am. 

 Acad., xx. 371 (Feb. 21. 1885). Shrub. 2 C 

 high: Cantillas Canyon, Lower California 

 (H. C. and C. R. Orcutt, August, 1883). 

 ERIOGONUM MIXUTIFLORUM Wats. 



"Of the E. Pusillum group: very slen- 

 der, 6' high or less, diffusely branch- 

 ing, glabrous, excepting the small ovate 

 rosulate leaves which are densely white- 

 tomentose on both sides, becoming less 

 to^nentose above: bracts minute: pedun- 

 cles filiform, divericately spreading: 3-8" 

 long: involucres very small (1-3" long), 

 broadly turbinate-campanulate. pur- 

 plish; perianth y.. minutely puberulent. 

 very small." S. Watson. Proc. Am. Acad., 

 xxvi.. 125 (July 31. 18911. Colorado desert. 

 San Diego Co., California (Orcutt, April. 

 1890). 



ERIOGOXUM VAGAXS S. Watson. 

 S. Watson. Am ac pr 20:370, based on 



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Oxytheca inermis Watson, Am ac pr 

 12:273." Very near E. hirtiftorum, 

 Gray, but less diffusely and finely 

 branched, the branches more decum- 

 bent, and the fls and akenes 2 or 3 

 times larger (% line long). Both have 

 similar ciliate leaves, unilateral folia- 

 ceous bracts, glandular pubescence, vil- 

 lous fls, and obtusely triangular 

 akenes." San Bernardino mts. ; Mohave 

 desert. 



EMMENANTHE PENDULIFLORA Bth. 

 California yellow bells; a broad bushy 

 annual from a span to 2 feet high, loaded 

 with broadly bell-shaped pendulous flow- 

 ers, 1 2 inch long, of a delicate cream col- 

 orthe persistent corolla drying and re- 

 taining its shape until seed ripens. 'The 

 general effect of a branch is suggestive of 

 a long spike of the lily of the valley', says 

 one writer. Utah; Lake county, Cal. to 

 Lower California; Arizona. 



GILIA ORCUTTII. Parry. 



"A span high, slender; leaves only 2 or 

 3 pairs up to the inflorescence, very small, 

 with filiform divisions; fl. few, in the 

 clusters; tube of the corolla less than %' 

 long, rather thick, dilated at summit, 

 hardly longer than the turbinate campan- 

 ulate throat and limb, its lobes ovate; 

 stamens and style included." Parry. 

 Proc. Dav. Acad. Xatl. Sci. iv. 40 (1884).* 



GILIA LEPTAJSTTHA Parish. 



"Annual; stems slender, much branch- 

 ed. 25-SO cm high, below loosely wooly, 

 becoming glabrous above, beset with 

 numerous tack-shaped glands; Ivs mostly 

 basal. 2-3 cm long, the thick midrib hav- 

 ing a very narrow marginal blade with 

 several linear cuspidate, alternate tooth- 

 like lobes, the rameal Ivs reduced to min- 

 ute subulate bracts; panicle diffuse; ped- 

 icels shorter than the calyx, or rarely 

 much longer; caH'x 3 mm long, scarious. 

 the green midribs prolonged as short, 

 subulate, divergent teeth; cor 10-12 mm 

 long, purple, the slender tube moderately 

 dilated at the yellow throat; fil at the 

 sinuses of the cor, and surpassing its 

 oblong lobes; capsule ovoid, shorter than 

 the caJyx- teeth; seeds w. 2 mm long, 

 minutely roughened." Parish, Zoe 5:74. 

 SBer mts. ( 



ERIODICTYON CRASSIFOLIUM Benth. 



"Densely tomentose-villous, the hairs 

 straight: corolla salver-form, twice as 

 long as the calyx, densely villous outside: 

 seed finely about 10-striate,with innum- 

 erable minute transverse lines." Greene, 

 Bull. Cal. Acad. Sci., i. 201. 

 MONARDELLA MACRATHA A. Gray. 



"Robust, stems 1-2 ft long; pubescence 

 sparse and spreading; internodes elon- 

 gated; the larger Ivs 9-14 lines long and 

 8 lines wide; cor deep red, tube somewhat 

 trumpet-shaped, apparently glabrous but 

 short-pubescent under a strong lens; sta- 

 mens exserted beyond the cor. -lobes." 

 Ha U 110, 109. 111. Palomar. Cuyamaca: 

 San Bernard-no Co (Parish 4578). 



