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oval, ovate or obovate; scapiform pe- 

 duncles numerous, foot high, erect, re- 

 peatedly di- and tri-chotomously 

 branched; lower bracts foliaceous; in- 

 volucres distant, 2 lines high, teeth 

 subacute, few (.3-15) fl'd; fls 4 lines 

 high, atenuate at base, glabrous, yel- 

 lowish; filament hairy at base; achene 

 glabrous, 2 lines long, attenuate 

 above." Parish, Erythea 6:87. Mts., 

 southern Calif., 4,000-7,000 ft. alt. 

 LASTARRI^A CHILENSIS Remy. 



"Involucral whorls closely adherent, 

 and similar to the external cauline bracts; 

 perianth sharply triangular, coriaceous, 

 segments unequal, with prolonged un- 

 cinate awns." Parry, Proc. Dav. Acad. 

 Natl. Sci., v. 36 (Nov. 1, 1886). 



Pacific Coast of North and So Am. 

 M1MULUS CLEVELAND! Brandegee. 

 . "Perennial, suffrutescent at base, 3-6 

 dm. high, glandular-pubescent through- 

 out; stems many from the base, sparing- 

 ly branched above; leaves lanceolate, ser- 

 rate, 3-7 cm. long, narrowing to the clasp- 

 ing base, in age revolute on the margins; 

 flowers shortly pedicellate; calyx 2 cm. 

 long, contracted above the ovary, the 

 upper and longer portion curved and 

 spreading, the lanceolate, somewhat 

 unequal teeth % the length of the tube; 

 corolla golden yellow, nearly twice the 

 length of the calyx, witn gradually di- 

 lated throat and widely spreading nearly 

 equal lips; styles stout, minutely and 

 densely glandular; stigma tubular-pel- 

 tate; mature capsule 10-12 mm. long, 

 nearly quadrangular, tapering slightly 

 toward the apex, opening to the base by 

 the upper suture, the lower separating for 

 only a short distance from the tip, and 

 each valve splitting at the tip .for nearly 

 the ame distance as the lower suture; 

 placentae separate, as in M. glutinosus; 

 seeds foveo.ate, apiculate at both ends." 

 T. S. Brandegee, Garden and Forest, 

 8:134, f 20 (3 Ap 1895). 



South side of Cuyamaca peak, San 

 Diego coi^nty, California. 

 ALLIUM CRISPUM Greene. 



"Buib unknown: leaves several, linear, 

 shorter than the scapes: scape 5-8 in. 

 high, stout, gradually thickened above: 

 spathe 1-valved, cleft to the middle into 

 2 ovate, abruptly acute lobes, these 

 eventually torn apart to the base by the 

 expanding umbed: pedicels 12-25, stout 

 ish, an inch long: perianth light purple, 

 3-4 lines long, the outer segments oblong- 

 cvate, plane, entire, the inner lanceolate, 

 canaliculate, their margins minutely but 

 strongly undulate: stamens broadly sub- 

 ulate, rather more than one half as long 

 as the perianth: ovary not crested. Near 

 El Paso de Robles, San Luis Obispo 

 Cal (Parry)." Greene, Pittonia 1:165. 

 ALLIUM DICHLAMYDEUM Greene. 



"Vegetative characters of A. peninsu- 

 lare, but the plant only half as large, 

 perianth deep rose p. 5 lines long; outer 

 segments oblong, abruptly acute, spread- 



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ing, the inner lanceolate-oblong, erect 

 and thus apart from the outer, 

 their tips slightly spreading, all entire: 

 filaments subulate, one-third shorter 

 than the perianth: ovary crested " 

 Greene. Pittonia 1:66. "Common on hills 

 along the coast of California;" San F. 



ALLIUM PENINSULARE Lemmon. 



"Bulb small, broadly ovate, not deep- 

 seated: leaves few, ligulate, shorter 

 than the scapes, the latter 2 ft. high 

 and very stout, conspicuously striate 

 and glaucous: spathe monophyllous, 

 acuminately 2-tobed, at length torn 

 asunder to the base on opposite sides 

 by the expanding pedicels: umbel 25- 

 35-flowered, the pedicels 2 inches long- 

 or somewhat less: perianth deep red- 

 purple, the ovate-oblong and slenderly 

 acuminate segments 6 or 7 lines long: 

 filaments scarcely half as long as the 

 perianth-segments, triangularly dilated 

 below: ovary scarcely crested. Las 

 Cruces canyon, near San Rafael valley, 

 42 miles east of Ensenada, Lower Cal- 

 ifornia, 4 May, 1888, J G. Lemmon." 

 Greene, 'Pittonia 1:165 (15 Je 1888). 



MUILLA CORONATA Greene. 



"Corm %-% inch thick, an inch be- 

 low the surface of the ground: scapes 

 very slender throughout, 2-4 inches 

 ^igh: leaves 2 or 3 only, narrowly lin- 

 ear, semiterete, twice the length of the 

 scapes, the margins retrorsely sca- 

 brous: umbels 2-4-bracted, 3-10-flower- 

 ed: perianth rotate, its segments l%-2 

 lines long, exteriorly green with bluish 

 margins, pale blue or nearly white 

 within: filaments greatly dilated, hya- 

 line-petaloid, cuneate-oblong in out- 

 line, obtuse, retuse or almost obcordate 

 above: anthers subsagittate, erect, 

 fixed by the middle or a little above it 

 to an abrupt incurved median acumin- 

 ation of the broad filament. Mohave 

 Desert (C. C. Parry)." Greene, Pitto- 

 nia 1:165. 



PAEONIA BROWNII Dougl. 



Restricted in its distribution (Greene, 

 Garden and Forest 3:356) to Southern and 

 Lower California. Glabrous but not glau- 

 cous, leaves twice or thrice as large as in 

 P. brownii, of rounded and pedate general 

 outline. Grows in dry, rocky soil, from a 

 few hundred, to two or three thousand 

 feet altitude, where is is subjected to a 

 light fall of snow (Orcutt W 7:215). With- 

 out much floral beauty, though the lux- 

 uriant foliage makes it useful in some sit- 

 uations. 



EUPHORBIA ARENICOLA Parish. 

 "Anisophylli; annual, with prostrate 



