stems: leaves distant, thin, glaucous, 

 ovate-lanceolate, entire, 2 mm long; 

 stipules short, setaceous, entire, or 

 few-cleft; involucres solitary, broadly 

 campanulate, ciliate, 2-3 mm long; 

 glands 4, sessile, emarginate and con- 

 cave, yellow; capsule depressed-globu- 

 lar, 2 mm long and as broad, strongly 

 deflexed; seed ovate, smooth, ash-col- 

 ored." Parish, Erythea 7:93. Camp 

 Cady, Mohave desert (Parish 1370), dis- 

 tributed as E. cuspidata Engelm M S. 



LESQUERELLA PALMERI S. Watson. 



"Pubescence dense, stellate-lepidote; 

 caudex simple, apparently biennial, the 

 simple stems 1 high or more: basal leaves 

 narrowly oblanceolate. repand, the cau- 

 line narrower and mostly entire: petaJs 

 spatulate, 3" long: pods pubescent, 

 ovate-globose to broadly ellipsoidal, erect 

 on long spreading or ascending pedicels; 

 style as long as the pod; cells 2-4-ovuled. 

 Arizona (Palmer, 1872); Lower California 

 (C. R. Orcutt, 1884)." S. Watson, Proc. 

 Am. Acad., xxiii. 255 (May 29, 1888). 

 CALAMIXTHA MIMVLOIDES Benth. 



"Herbaceous, 50-60 cm high, viscidly 

 hirsute, fragrant; leaves thin, ovate, 2- 

 3 cm long, coarsely teethed; fls usually 

 3 in each axil, on slender pedicels, 

 leafy-bracted at base; calyx tubular, 7 

 mm long, 13-nerved, obscurely bilabi- 

 ate, the cuspidate teeth nearly equal; 

 corolla dull red, sparsely villous, tubu- 

 lar, enlarging in the throat but not gib- 

 bous, 4 cm long, bilabiate; lips straight, 

 5 mm long, the upper deeply 2-lobed, 

 villous within, the lower more deeply 

 3-lobed; filaments didynamous, the up- 

 per pair higher inserted, convergent, 

 included under the upper lip. all an- 

 theriferous: style exsert, its branches 

 unequal; ovary on a short columnar 

 gynobase; nutlets all 4 usually matur- 

 ing, globose, light colored, perpendicu- 

 larly veined." Parish, Erythea 7:96. 

 Near Acton. Los Angeles Co., Cal. 

 (Hasse), 4,000 ft. alt., head of Cotton- 

 wood canon. 

 ROSA CALIFORNICA C. & S. 



Spines stout, straight or recurved: 

 leaflets obtuse at both ends, often vil- 

 lous, as also the pedicel and recepta- 

 cle: fruit ovate, with a prominent neck. 

 Oregon to Baja Cal. 

 Variety GLABRATA Parish. 



"Entirely glabrous, except the inside 



of the calyx-lobes, not glandular; 

 stems slender, prickles approximate, 

 slender, straight, or nearly so; leaves 

 on mature wood crowded, leaflets 3-5, 

 %-% in. long, on young shoots more 

 distant, leaflets about 7, inch or less 

 long; corymbs 1-3 fl'd, fls less than inch 

 in diameter." Parish, Erythea 6:88. 

 Desert side of San Bernardino Mts. 

 Cal. 

 IRIS HARTWEGII Baker. 



"Root-stock slender; stems distant, 

 or few-clustered; leaves 3-4 lines wide, 

 the lowest somewhat exceeding the 

 stems, these about 1 ft. high, leafy; 

 bracts distant; fls 1-3, light blue with 

 darker veins; tube short; outer seg- 

 ments 2y 2 in. long, the ovate blade 

 nearly 1 in. wide, narrowed into a wide 

 claw; inner segments nearly as long, 

 lanceolate-linear; anthers % in. long, 

 on nearly as long filaments; styles with 

 divergent foliaceous crests % in. long; 

 capsule 1 in. high, oblong, obtusely 3- 

 angled; seeds cubical or angled, flat- 

 tened, wrinkled." Parish, Erythea 6: 

 86. Mts. of southern California, dis- 

 tributed as I. Parishii Foster M S. 

 MIRABILIS ASPERA Greene. 



"Stout, low, scabrous-hispidulous and 

 viscid throughout; the somewhat 

 fleshy leaves cordate-ovate, obtusish, 

 with prominent white midvein and 

 transverse veins; campanulate involu- 

 cre 5-toothed, the teeth triangular: fls 

 apparently solitary in the involucres, 

 red-purple: fruit globose, dark olive- 

 green marked by 10 whitish longitudin- 

 al striae, smooth, but under a lens 

 faintly rugulose transversely between 

 the striae." Greene, Erythea 4:67-8. 

 Type: Parish 3757. "Herbaceous 

 throughout." 



ABROX1A VILLOSA S. Watson. 



"Pubescence more or less densely vil- 

 lous, subglandular, spreading; stems weak 

 and slender: leaves ^4-1' long, oblong 

 or ovate, obtuse or acutish, attenuate into 

 a slender petiole; heads 5-10-flowered; in- 

 volucral scales narrowly lanceolate, log- 

 acuminate, 3-4" long; fl. pink, the lobes 

 obcordate with a deep sinus; fr. with a 

 firm body, strongly reticulate-pitted, the 

 3-5 broad wings consisting of a simple 

 lamina, usually truncate above. Nearest 

 to A. umbellata, Arizona (Wheeler)." 

 S. Watson, Amer. Natl., vii. 6 (May 1873). 



Mohave and CD; Utah (Parry). 

 POLYGOIVt M FUSIFORME Greene. 



"Perennial, the very stout geniculate 

 stems decumbent or assurgent, 3-6 ft. 



