seeded: sd naked, albumen 0: embryo 

 straight, cotyledons auriculate at base 

 and including the radicle. 



KRAMERIA CANESCENS A. Gray. 



Gray, PI Wright 1:42 (1852). 



Type locality: "prairies near the Pe- 

 co." Texas. 



Virgin and Muddy rivers, Nev (Mer- 

 riPMi alley). Baja mts (Or 950). 



Pubescence short and tomentose: Ivs 

 lanceolate to linear: peds short, 2- 

 bracted: sep lanceolate, the smaller one 

 linear: capsule ovate-globose, tipped 

 with the stout curved sty, and armed 

 with slender prickles barbed at apex. 



Torrey, bot Mex boundary 49 t 13. 



PDA ORCUTTT AHA Vasey. 



"Culms caespitose, about 2 high, radi- 

 cal leaves numerous, narrow, flaccid, 

 about 6 / long, scabrous; culm leaves 2-4 

 inche long, attenuate at the apex, and 

 with the sheaths scabrous, upper sheath 

 very long; ligule membranaceous, about 

 2" long, acute, becoming lacerate; nodes 

 smooth; panicle 4-6' long, lax, the bran- 

 ches erect and soni' what appfcSsed, the 

 ower in threes, 1-3' long, the lower 

 bird or more uaktd, numerously flow- 

 ered above; empty glumes nearly equal, 

 \\" long, the upper .vnerved, lower one- 

 nerved, scarious margined; flowering 

 'glumes oblong, obtuMsh, flattish on the 

 back, scabrous, about 2 /x long scarious 

 tipped, slightly pubescent below, five- 

 nerved; palet as long as it- glume, acute- 

 ciliate scabrous on the keels. First col- 

 lected by C..R. Orcuit near San Diego 

 in 1884, and subsequ^ ntly by Mr. Loren- 

 zo Jared in Santa Barbara county, Cal. 

 The mature spikelets have the appear- 

 ance of Gl c ria. Its narrow, scabrous 

 leaves are good, distinctive characters. 5 ' 

 Vasey, \V 3:165 (Ag. 1887) 

 NAVARRETIA FOLIACEA Greene. 



"^'ear N. atractyloides, but more dif- 

 fuse and leafy, leaves ampler, less coria- 

 ceous and of a lighter green, their seg- 

 ments not wholly spinose, but herba- 

 ceous below; segments f the calyx very 

 unequal, 2 large, ovate-acuminate spin- 

 ose tipped and inure or less recurved, 3 



100 



very small and only broadly subulate: 

 corolla white, small, little surpassing the 

 calyx: herbage scentless." Greene, Pitt 

 1:138 (25 N 1887). Potrero, SD co (D. 

 Cleveland). 



NAVARRETIA PEN1NSULARIS Greene. 

 "Diffusely branching, 3-10' high, glan- 

 dular-puberulent and very viscid: leaves 

 all acerose-pinnatifid: fls. rather few, in 

 numerous scattered and mostly pedun- 

 culate glomerules: calyx sparsely hirsute, 

 the segments subulate, entire, very un- 

 equal, the shortest fully equalling the 

 tube the longest surpassed by the pur- 

 plish corolla: capslue 3-celled, many- 

 seeded. Hanson's ranch, in the north- 

 ern part of Lower California, July 10, 

 1884, (\ R. i 'rcutt, No. 1113 Related to 

 N divaricata, but sufficiently distin- 

 guished by its clamminess and different 

 inflorescence, as well as by its larger 

 corollas." Greene, Pittonia, i. 186. 



NAVARRETIA HAMATA Greene. 



"Near N atractyloides, and like it aro- 

 matic, but smaller and comparatively 

 slender; leaves not ioliaceous-dilated, 

 but with a linear, or nearly linear rachis 

 and few or many spinose-subulate seg- 

 ments of which the terminal one, and 

 sometimes one or all of the lateral pairs 

 are strongly recurved or else abiuptly 

 defiVxed (forming ho< ks); calyx-seg- 

 ments all subulate and spinose-tipped, 

 all erect, 2 twice as large as the others: 

 corolla sal verform, deep purple, large 

 for the plant, the slender tube well ex- 

 serted from the calyx. Gimdalupe mt., 

 Lower California, June, 1883, C. R. Or- 

 cutt. Also at All Saints bay, May. 1885. 

 by the present writer." Greene, Pit. i. 

 139 (N 25, 1887). 



ECHINOSPERMUM GREENEI A. Gray. 

 "Allocarya echinoglochin. Habit pu- 

 bescence and inflorescence of A. trachy- 

 carpa, but a coarser, larger plant; nutlets 

 \" long, ovate, straight, carinate ventri- 

 cally down to the nearly basal ovate 

 scar, the back covered with coarse gran- 

 ulations and stout barbed prickles %-% 

 line high, these distinct at base or more 

 or less confluent into walled reticula- 

 tions, the latter sometimes strongly de- 

 veloped and the prickles themselves 

 correspondingly reduced or even nearly 

 obsolete bD .o Oregon." Greene. 



