87 



long, dark red, the internodes 2^-4 

 inches long and fusiform: leaves nar- 

 rowly lanceolate, acuminate, 3-5 inches 

 long, glabrous, minutely punctate; och- 

 reae very thin, delicately striate, 

 sparsely strigose-pubescent along the 

 lines and ciliate at summit: peduncles 

 terminal, short, stoutish; bearing 5 or 

 more paniculately disposed short 

 spikes, these slender and few-fl'd: ca- 

 lyx pinkish, not punctate, only % line 

 :iong, 4-parted, compressed, the 2 outer 

 lobes only % as broad as the 2 inner 

 and cucullate, or at least strongly ven- 

 tricose at summit: stamens 4 or 5, 

 small, included: styles 2; achenes much 

 flattened, broadly ovate, tapering ab- 

 ruptly to a stout beak-like apiculation, 

 very dark brown, smooth and shining." 

 Greene, Erythea 1:259. Near the Nee- 

 dles, Calif., from the moist banks of 

 :he Colorado. 



CALLITRICHE LONGIPEDUNCULATA 

 "With thread-like stems; leaves all 

 spatulate or oblanceolate, 3-8 mm long, 

 the blades 1-2 mm broad, rounded at the 

 apex, and sloping into narrowly margined 

 petioles often longer than themselves, 

 dotted with stellate scales, S-nerved, the 

 lateral nerves running into each other 

 very near the apical margin. Perigonial 

 sacs longer than the fruit. Styles much 

 longer than the fruit, erect, deciduous. 

 Peduncles lengthening to 10-25 cm at ma- 

 turity, and frequently 2 or 3 proceeding 

 -from the same axil, or a little below it. 

 Fruit thick, nearly orbicular, three-fifths 

 to 1 mm long by about four-fifths mm in 

 breadth, minutely emarginate, the lobes 

 divergent, with a deep intervening groove, 

 obtusely margined, and with or without a 

 very narrow wing." Morong, Torrey bot 

 cl b 18:2C6. 



Mesas, San Diego, Cal.ifornia (Orcutt, 

 1SS4), type. 



ASTRAGALUS ORCUTTIANUS S. Wats. 

 "Stems numerous, slender, decumbent, 

 1 long, sparingly strigose-pubescent: 

 leaflets 8-10 pairs, rounded, 1-2" broad: 

 peduncles shorter than the leaves, 2-3' 

 long in f r. ; raceme loose, few-fl. : calyx 

 campanulate, 2" long, the teeth mostly 

 equalling the tube: pod linear-falcate, as- 

 cending, coriaceous, attenuate to a stipe 

 shorter than the calyx, with a dorsal 

 groove and acute ventral suture, 2-celled 

 by the intrusion of the dorsal suture, 9" 

 long. Allied to A. Arizonicus, rather pe- 

 culiar in habit, the small round leaflets 

 upon an elongated rhachis exceeding the 

 raceme. In Cantillas Canon ("Tantillas" 

 of Palmer), Lower California, by C. R. 

 Orcutt, August, 1883." S. Watson, Proc. 

 Am. Acad.. xx. 361 (Feb. 21. 1885). 



ERIOGONUM FOLIOSUM 8. Watson. 



"Of the E. vimineum group: annual, 

 branching from the base, floccose-tomen- 



tose, the branches sparse and spreading: 

 leaves ovate, cordate or cuneate at base 

 obtuse or acute, undulate, tomentose be- 

 neath, 3-9" long besides the petiole 

 radical, and in the axils of the subulate 

 brnots: involucres broadly turbinate cleft 

 nearly to the middle, green, 1" long- fl 

 Y 2 long the segments white or pink- 

 ish with a green midvein."-S. Watson. 

 Proc Am. Acad., xx. 371-2 (Feb. 21, 1886). 

 Ortutt Wer Calif0rnia < Palme r, 1875; 



ERIOGONUM DESERTICOLA S. Wats 

 Apparently an annual of the E Pusil- 

 lum group (base and foliage unknown) 

 tall, several times dichotomously 

 branched white-tomentose, becoming 

 mostly glabrous and yellowish green- 

 bracts all small and deltoid; involucres 

 shortly pedicellate or subsessile toward 

 the end of the branches, erect or spread- 

 ing. turbinate-campanulate, 1" long: 

 perianth villous, the elliptical segments y 

 with greenish or reddish midveins, 1-1 y z " 

 long-. In the southwestern part of 

 the Colorado desert. San Diego Co., Cali- 

 fornia; C. R. Orcutt, November. 1890 (n. 

 2189)." S. Watson, Proc. Am. Acad. 

 xxvi. 126-6 (July 31, 1891). 



SALICORNIA SUBTERMINALIS Parish. 

 '"From running root-stalks, appar- 

 ently herbaceous, compact, 1 ft. high; 

 spikes 1-2 in. long, of 3-5 enlarged fer- 

 tile bracts, terminated by 5-10 slender, 

 infertile ones, these sometimes with 

 pairs of lateral branches of 2-3 bracts; 

 utricle and seed smo-oth." Parish, Er- 

 ythea 6:87. In strongly alkaline soil, 

 Riverside Co., Cal. 



MIMULUS PARISHII Greene. 



"Stout. 2 high, villous and very slimy; 

 leaves ovate-lanceolate, erose-dentate, 1-2' 

 long, the uppermost clasping : pedicels 

 shorter than the leaves: calyx-teeth trr- 

 angular, acute, nearly equal: corolla pale 

 rose-red, only the small, nearly regular 

 limb exserted from the calyx: seed small 

 oblong, with a loose, wrinkled coat." 

 Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. Sci., i. 108-9 (Mar. 

 7, 18S5). 



Mohave (Parish 1166) L A Co (Nevin); 

 Baja! 



FRANKENIA GRANDIFOLIA C. ft 8. 



. Fls pink: calyx-tube furrowed. San 

 Francisco to Mexico; Arizona; Nevada; 

 saline soil. 

 FRANKENIA PALMERI S. Watsoik 



Shrub, a ft. high, fls w. San Diego, 

 south. 



SIMMONDSIA CALIFORNICA Nutt. 



The goat-nut, or deer-nut, is an 

 acorn-like fruit, edible and pleasant to 

 the taste, produced by a low, oval- 

 formed, rigid shrub, in profusion, under 

 all conditions of soil from the sea coast 

 to the borders of the desert to eastern 

 Arizona. The Indians at the Catali- 

 na mission, in Lower California, claim 



