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LYCIUM HASSEI Greene. 



"Glabrous but slightly viscid, com- 

 pactly branching and somewhat spin- 

 escent, 8 or 10 ft. hig-h: leaves spatu- 

 late, obtuse, an inch long: flowers 4- or 

 5-merous; calyx-lobes 2-4, foliaceous, 

 oblxmg or lanceolate, unequal, much 

 longer than the campanulate tube; co- 

 rolla % inch long, narrowly funnel- 

 form, the oval lobes spreading, light 

 purple with a greenish tinge: stamens 

 well exserted: berries small, globose, 

 scarlet. Santa Catalina Island, July 

 15, 1888; a single dense clump consist- 

 ing perhaps of one or possibly several 

 bushes, the whole mass as broad as 

 high and quite impenetrable; collect- 

 ors Dr. H. E. Hasse and Mr. W. S. 

 Lyon." Greene, Pittonia 1:222. 



COLLINSIA CALLOSA Parish. 



"Plants 15-30 cm high, dichotomously 

 branched, glabrous except the slightly 

 glandular pedicels and calyces; leaves 

 opposite or ternate, oblong to acutely 

 ovate, 2 cm or less in length, the upper 

 much reduced, sessile, entire, the mar- 

 gins somewhat revolute; fls in verticils 

 of 2 or 3. or solitary, -on slender pedi- 

 cel about 1 cm long; calyx lobes 

 acute; corolla light blue, 5-8 mm long, 

 the lips about equalling the moderate- 

 ly gibbous throat, their lobes all entire 

 and of equal length, the lower lip with 

 prominent internal callosities below 

 the sinuses; filaments glabrous, the 

 abortive one filiform, 1 mm high; style 

 4 mm long, stigma entire; mature cap- 

 sule globose, shorter than the calyx 

 lobes: seeds 3 in each cell, oblong-men- 

 iscoidal, 3 mm long, reticularly rugose." 

 Parish. Erythea 7:96. San Antonio 

 Mts., 6,500 ft. (H. M. Hall). 



COLLINSIA CONCOLOR Greene. 



"Near C. bicolor, but with few pairs 

 of leaves and long internodes, the 

 plant a foot high or more, delicately 

 puberulent throughout: leaves 1-1% 

 inches long, linear or oblong-linear, the 

 margins crenate-serrate, or entire and 

 revolute: racemes of few and rather 

 remote verticils: calyx tube hoary 

 with a long villous-arachnoid pubes- 

 cence; segments oblong, obtuse: corol- 

 la red-purple throughout, in form like 

 that of C. bicolor, but less than half 

 as large." Greene, Erythea 3:49. 

 Southern part of San Diego Co., Calif. 

 ?(R. D. Alderson). 



COLLINSIA FRANCISCANA Biol. 



"From %-2% ft. high; low and erect 

 or tall and reclining on neighboring 

 plants; glabrous below, minutely viscid 

 pubescent above: leaves ovate or 

 ovate-lanceolate, the upper sessile, the 

 lower shortly petroled: flowers from 

 1-3 in the axils of the leaves and. 

 bracts, or 5-6 in the axils of the upper- 

 most bracts: pedicels from slightly 

 shorter to 2 or 3 times as long as the 

 calyx lobes, much elongated in fruit: 

 corolla 8-12 lines long; upper lip white, 

 purple spotted at base; throat 4 1-onger 

 than wide, closed at the mouth and al- 

 most glabrous within or scantily his- 

 pidulous; upper filaments slightly 

 bearded; gland subulate, the abortive 

 anther yellowish and glabrous, the fil- 

 amentous portion thicker, about one- 

 third as long, white and hispidulous: 

 calyx 1-obes but slightly exceeding the 

 ovary: seeds 8-12 in each cell, rugu- 

 lose." Bioletti, Erythea 1:17. San 

 Francisco, Cal. 



PENTSTEMON LEUCANTHUS Greene. 

 "Stems erect from a woody base, 4-6 

 ft. high: plant pallid and glaucous 

 throughout: leaves linear-lanceolate, 

 entire: thyrsus narrow, the flowers 

 ^hort-pedicelled: sepals ovate with a 

 prominent acuminate tip: corolla 

 white, l-iy 2 inches long, the tube nar- 

 row, the limb bilabiate with rather 

 short spreading lobes: anthers horse- 

 shoe-shaped, their edges muricate: 

 sterile filament naked, obtuse at the 

 short flattened apex. San Rafael 

 mountains, Santa Barbara county, 

 Caif. June 1887, John Spence." Greene, 

 Pittonia 1:72. 



DIPLACUS PARVIFLORUS Greene. 



"Rigidly shrubby, ' but flowering at 

 from 3 inches to 2 ft. high; glabrous 

 and glutinous: leaves narrowly ovate 

 or rhombic-ovate, coarsely serrate- 

 toothed: corolla an inch long, brick- 

 red, nearly tubular, the small, entire, 

 quadrate lobes very little spreading: 

 stamens exserted. North side of the is- 

 land of Santa Cruz, abundant on open, 

 rocky slopes, flowering profusely at a 

 height of only 3 or 4 inches, yet not at 

 all herbaceous." Greene, Pittonia 1:36. 

 DIPLACUS GRANDIFLORUS Greene. 



"Low and decumbent: branches and 

 peduncles minutely puberulent, the 

 hairs simple, stiff, deflexed: leaves ob- 



