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Variety ARIDA Hall. 



"Very similar to var. pinetorum. the 

 stems always short and the foliage con- 

 gested; Ivs even more reduced, the lar- 

 gest only 5 lines long while the majority 

 are only 1 or 2 lines long; cor as in var. 

 piretorum but still more slender and un- 

 der 1 in. in length." Ha U 111 t 10. 

 Variety NAN A A. Gray. 



Monardella nana A. GRAY, Am ac pr 

 11:101. 



Differs from the type in the pale rose- 

 cclored co-r, only sUightly exserted from 

 the calyx tube. Cuyamaca! Ha U 111 (not 

 Jac). 

 Variety PINETORUM Hall. 



"Stems shorter than in var. tenuiflora, 

 ashy-pubescent, the hairs short and 

 dense; internodes sometimes short with 

 ais many as 5 pairs of Ivs crowded on a 

 stem only iy 2 in. long, sometimes more 

 elongated; Ivs ovate to elliptic, much re- 

 duced in size, the largest under 6 lines in 

 \length; cor very slender, pale y to almost 

 w, 1-1V4 in. long, conspicuously pubescent; 

 stamens not exserted beyond the cor.- 

 lobes." Ha U 110 t 12. 

 Variety TBNUIFLORA Gray. 



"Stems about a foot long, more pubes- 

 cent than in the type, the pubescence not 

 appressed; internodes long; Ivs ovate, the 

 larger 10-14 lines long; cor pale rose or 

 yellowish, the tube slender and more pu- 

 bescent, 1^4-1V 2 in. long; stamens not ex- 

 sorted beyond the cor. -lobes. "Ha U 110 

 t 11. 

 PHACELIA AFFINIS A. Gray. 



Viscid, pubescent, less than a fot high, 

 leaves pinnately parted mostly into lin- 

 ear-oblong entire or incisely toothed 

 lobes: fls short pedicelled, less crowded 

 or sparse in the fruiting spikes: corolla 

 rotate-campanulate, small, light blue, a 

 little exceeding the calyx: capsule ob- 

 long, shorter than the spatulate-dilated 

 fructiferous .sepals, 20-30-seeded: seeds 

 oval-oblong, strongly favose-reticulated 

 between the corrugations. Mts Baja! 



Pliacelia rugulosa Lemmon, pitt 1:175. 

 ATRIPLEX JULACEA S. Watson. 



"Perennial, the slender woody stems 

 procumbent, and the numerous short 

 slender branchlets ament-like from the 

 crowding of the close leafy undeveloped 

 buds, scunfy-pubescent; leaves small, ov- 

 ate-triangular, sagittate and clasping, 

 thick, the larger cauline 2 lines long, 

 those upon the branchlets scarcely l / 2 

 line long and sulcate from the folding 

 back of the margins: fruit mostly soli- 

 tary in the axils, 2 or 2U. lines long, the 

 ovate marginless rigid bracts united to 

 above the middle, and densely covered 

 with irregular corky appendages." S. 

 Watson. Am ac pr 20:370. Santos! 

 OXYTHECA CARYOPHYLLOIDES Pry. 

 "Plant low (4-6 inches), with short 

 simple primary stem, or branching 

 from the base, upper stems prolonged 

 into numerous slender, intricate 

 branches, smooth or glandular-pubes- 

 cent, with irregular patches or dark- 

 colored glands on the upper stem and 



involucres; leaves radical, obovate, 

 spatuiate, occasionally emarginate, ta- 

 pering- into a petiole expanding at its 

 clasping base; cauline bracts ternate 

 with oblong divisions, nearly equal, ^ 

 line long, shortly acuminate; involu- 

 cres (except in the lower axils) sessile, 

 5-parted to near the base, divisions 

 nearly equal, 1% lines long, narrowly 

 ovate with strong mid-nerve prolonged 

 into an awn about one-third its length; 

 fl, 2-3 in each involucre, shortly pedi- 

 celled and with very minute bractlets; 

 perianth short, greenish, obscurely 

 Icbed, closely embracing the matured 

 akenes; akenes broadly triangular, 

 smooth, with rounded edges; embryo 

 with curved radicle and orbicular ac- 

 jumbent cotyledons." Parry, Dav ac 

 pr 3:2 (28 F 1882). Mts. San Bernardino 

 county, Cal, A& 1881 (Parish 1097). 



OXYTHECA EMARGINATA Hnll 



"Si-'u<!i'r annual. 2 3 in. high, mor-j or 

 h-ss gland ular-iubocer.; up to the invo- 

 ucres, the Ivs and bracts sparsely strl- 

 gose-puhescent, the whole herbage and 

 especially the involucres eaily turning 

 red; Ivs clustered near base of stem, 

 narrow, oblaneeolate, emarginate, 4-8 

 lines long; involucres obpyramidal, 3 lines 

 high, shallowly 5-lobed, each lobe with a 

 narrow w membranous margin and tip- 

 ped with an awn a line or less in length: 

 fls usually 4, on short pedicels, slightly 

 exserted, externally pubescent on the 

 lower half: segments 6, distinct to the 

 base, O'blanceolate, fimbriate above into 

 slender divisions, 1-three-foui ths lines 

 long: stamens 9: akene triangular, en- 

 closed by the withering-persistent peri- 

 anth." Ha U 75. 



OXYTHECA LUTEOLA Parry. 



"Prostrate (3-10 in. broad), dichtotom- 

 ously branched from the base, smooth, or 

 with scattered 1 pubescence on the slender 

 branches; Ivs orbicular to oblong-obov- 

 ate, ! 1 /2-2 lines in width, with slender pe- 

 tioles 3 or 4 times as long, covered below 

 with dense wooly pubescence, smoother 

 above, the cauline in 1-sided pairs (the 

 third at each node obsolete or nearly so), 

 one or both passing into linear-aciculate 

 bracts; involucres sessile, 5-parted, the 

 spreading unequal, divisions resembling 

 the bracts, the longer 2-5 lines in length 

 (including the slender awn) and about 

 equaMng the bracts; fls pubescent, crowd- 

 ed (7-15), developing centripetally, the 

 short pedicel jointed at the base of the 

 perianth and subtended by 2 bractlets, 

 1 linear, the other broader and scarions; 

 perianth 6-cleft nearly to the middle, 

 greenish-y; fil short; anthers oval; styles 

 short, with spreading capitate stigmas; 

 akenes smooth; cotyledons orbicular, ac- 

 cumbent to the longer radicle." Pary, 

 Torr cl b 10:23. Lancaster, Cal. (Parry). 



