93 94 



round, slender leaves, said to have been opening from the summit downward. Sds 



eaten a a salad by the Indians. finely tuberculate. 



STYL.OPHYDLUM ORCUTTII. ROMXEYA COULTERI HARVEY. 



"Resembling S. attenuatum in its foil- Half-hardy shrub, 6-15 ft high, branching 



age and habit, but stouter and very glau- and flexuous, woody at base: Ivs glaucous, 



cous; cor-tube much shorter and shorter thickish, petioled, 3-5 in. long, the lower 



even than the calyx, the lobes broader, ones pinnatifid, upper ones pinnately tooth- 



and more keeled, segments rose-colored, ed: petioles and margins often sparingly 



not at all tinged with yellow; calyx-lobes ciliate with rigid spinose bristles: the magni- 



obtusisih; anthers red." Rose, NY bot ficent wax-like fls 6-9 in. across: pet broadly 



g-axd b 3:36. SD; Todos; Coronado Islands, obovate : fil % in. long, bright yellow, pur- 



^ Cotyledon orcuttii Greene; Or, W Am p i e at base: capsule oblong, y 2 in. long, ob- 



Sci 10:72. scurely many angled, hispid with appressed 



S r J YL. DENSIFL.ORUM Rose. bristles and crowned with the persistent 



Cotyledon nudicaule Abrams, So Cal ac stigmas: sds black, a line or less long. Ma- 



_' (1903). non Lam (1786). tilija poppy, named in honor of T. Romney 



"Plants growing in dense clumps with Robinson, a noted astronomer. Ventura Co. 



more or less branching rootstocks, very Baja! 



glaucous throughout: Ivs numerous, er- ROMNEYA TRICHOCALYX Eastwood, 



ect, nearly terete, acute, 6-12 cm long; Closely resembling R. Coulter! in habit, Ivs 



fl'n.g branches slender and weak; inflo- thinner, divisions narrower: sep setose. SBar 



rescence a rather dense compact cyme, and Ventura Cos. SD Co. 



its ultimate branches rather short, 4-8 prxmcs PARRYANA "Rne-plm 



fl'd: pedicels short. 1-3. mm long; calyx PI ^,, P AR^ 



2 mm long, its lobes twice as long as the ln . lH<s ;i f Vnrthp Raia i f^w PTtPTiHirnr 



i-inca- st'am^ni 10 a Htttlp ;hortftr than "c&ion. .uvs mosny in '-t s or o s, roousi/, 



t^oo?^Sels^^reidinK."-S^ NY cones globose: sds large, soft-shelled. 



bot gard b 3:3? GabS (?! g asse? ' The P inone tree - Peculiar to South- 



SEDUM SPATHULIFOHUM Hook. ern and Lower California, but most 



Glabrous, glaucous or pulverulent; Ivs abundant on the table lands near the 



^ la aeiS MrSSS international boundary, is a very 



c>me compound; fls silightly pedicellate, graceful and symmetrical tree, 20-30 



decandrous; petals (yellow) linear-lance- feet high 10 . 18 i nc hes in diameter, dis- 



22MFM&* > 5E r *S?'3r& tinguished by the 3-5 (mostly 4) leaves 



& Gray. Fl N Am 1:569 (1S40). in a sheath, l^i-l 1 ^ inches long. The 



Hooker, Fl Bor Am 1:227. ova l seeds, 5-8 lines long-, with a thin 



high e& F?s mtJS^lTrB^^ 1 ^ light-brown mottled shell, are delicious 



rr.<m in cult in So Cal gardens. in flavor, either roasted or fresh, and 



ROSA MINUTIFOLIA Engelm. in a good season are collected in im- 



Very spiny and prickly: stipules mense quantities by the Indians for 

 short, narrow; leaflets very small: fls food. These nuts in a roasted condi- 

 small, solitary, on very short pedicels, tion are not rare in San Diego mar- 

 fruit globose, densely prickly. Todos kets, and often exported in quantities, 

 Santos bay, Baja Cah, south. being considered quite a luxury with 

 RHUS OVATA S. Watson. some. Unlike the other nut pines, the 



"A shrub, 5-10 high, glabrous excepting tree is very ornamental when properly 



the finely pubescent branches and the grO w n, and forms a worthy monument 



bracts of the inflorescence: leaves coria- . hntani^t nf thP ATPvican hmmd- 



ceous and shining, ovate, acute or acumi- to tne botanist < . Mexic, 



nate, entire or rarely sparingly toothed, ary survey of 1850 Dr. Charles Chns- 



2-3' long, on a stout, usually reddish topher Parry in whose honor the 



petiole 4-8" long: fl. in dense closely qT , ppip jo nampd 



panicled spikes %' long or less, the ; 



rounded bracts and sepals purplish; petals, PINLS PONDEROSA Dougl. 



light y.: fr. compressed-ovate, 2-3" The yellow pine is a noble tree, one of 



long, viscid-pubescent." S. Watson, Proc. the largest known, 200-300 feet high and 



Am. Acad., xx. 358-9 (Feb. 21, 1885). 12 . 15 feet in diameter at times, with 



Genus ROMNEYA Harvey. leaves in threes, 5 to even 11 inches 



Smooth stout erect perennial herbs, with long. "Throughout the San Bernardino 



colorless juice pinnately divided alternate range , the San Jacinto and Cuyamaca 

 Ivs and very large showy fls. Sep. 5, with 



a broad membraneous dorsal wing. Pet 6. mountains, forming the greater part of 



Sta numerous, with filiform filaments some- the coniferous forest," says Parish 



what thickened below, and oblong anthers. (Zoe 4 '351 ) 



Ovary oblong, densely setose, more or less -1 T '' ' ' VA ,_ . T>___, 



completely several-celled by the intrusion of FI . L S ^^^ Y - A ^^ ?/? 



the many-ovuled placentae; valves 7-12, The Soledad pine was for many years 



