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toothed or entire, 2.5-5 cm long; fls sm. 

 shorter than the floral Ivs; ex-lobes 2 

 mm long-; pet oval, 3 mm long; 5 outer 

 sta with dilated fll; capsule cylindric 

 or nearly so, 6-12 mm long, few-seeded; 

 sds prismatic, with a very shallow 

 groove, sides faintly tuberculate. 



Abrams, PI LA 256 Occasional in tne 

 chaparral belt throughout our range. 



Brandegee, Zoe 1:113, Cat. 

 CUCURBITA POETIDISSIMA HBK. 

 Jepson, Erythea 1:12. 

 Calabazilla or mock-orange. Sts 

 stout, rough, hirsute, trailing to a 

 length of 2-5 m; st very large, car- 

 rot-shaped; Ivs ovate-triangular, cor- 

 date or truncate at the base, acute at 

 the apex 1-3 dm long, denticulate, usu- 

 ally slightly 3-5-lobed, rough above, 

 canescent beneath, on stout petioles, 

 8-15 cm long; peds 2.5-5 cm long; fls 

 mostly solitary; cor 7-10 cm long; pepo 

 g-lobose, 5-10 cm in diam, smooth. 



Abrams, Fl LA 384. "Frequent on 

 dry sandy soil throughout our range." 



Curcubita perennis A. Gray. 

 MICRAMPELIS LEPTOCARPA Greene. 

 "Habit of M fabacea, but slender, 

 with smaller and more deeply lobed 

 foliage; Ivs very thin, rather sparsely 

 and delicately scabrous; fls w, appar- 

 ently open-campanulate rather than 

 rotate; the staminate about 8-12 in a 

 simple raceme; pistillate ones twice 

 as large (% i broad), with oblong 

 prickly ovary % i long or more; ma- 

 ture fr rather narrowly oblong, acute, 

 about 5 i long, less than 2 i thick, 

 strongly armed with flattened prickles 

 %-l i long; seed-cavities 2, each with 

 perhaps 5 or 6 sds, but these unknown. 

 C D (W. G. Wright)." Greene, Pit- 

 tonia 2:282 (1892). 



MICRAMPEMS MACROCAHPA Greene. 

 Nearly glabrous sts much branched, 

 climbing over shrubs, from a very 

 large fusiform root; Ivs about 1-1.5 dm 

 broad, with close'd sinus, 5-cleft to the 

 middle or below it, the divisions slight- 

 ly 3-5-lobed, mucronate; fruit ovoid- 

 oblong, 8-12 cm long, usually densely 

 echinate with stout but rather soft 

 spines; the longest often 5 cm long, 

 usually 12-14 seeded; seed ovoid, 18 

 mm long, light brown, encircled by a 

 dark marginal line. 



Frequent in the hills and in the chap- 

 arral belt of all the mountains. F-May. 

 Commonly called chilicothe or wild cu- 

 cumber. 



Abrams. Fl LA 385. 

 Echinocystis macrocarpa Greene, Cal 

 ac b 1:188. 



Genus MESEMBRIANTHEMUM Linn. 

 M. AEQUILATERALE Haworth. 



The "beach strawberry," "sea apple," 

 or "Hottentot fig," is a stout, prostrate 

 perennial plant, abundant on the sea 

 shore from Santa Cruz, California, to 

 Chili, Tasmania, and Australia, bearing 

 large, solitary brilliant rose-red flow- 

 ers, that are very fragrant, followed 



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by luscious dull-red berries that are 

 very acceptable to children, large and 

 small, when enjoying a day on the 

 beach. 



Sts prostrate, often forming exten- 

 sive mats; Ivs 3-angled, opp, clasping, 

 linear, 1-3 i long, smooth; fls solitary, 

 sessile, iy 2 i dm, rose-p: ex-tube tur- 

 binate, ^ i long or more, angled or 

 terete, the larger foliaceous, lobejs 

 nearly as long; sty 6-10. Beach straw- 

 berry, Hottentot-fig. SD to Chili, Aus- 

 tralia, Tasmania. 



Abrams, Fl LA 139. 

 M. NODIFLORUM Linn. 



A prostrate branching ann with 

 rather slender terete Ivs; fls w, sm, 

 about 1 cm broad. SD! 



Abrams, Fl LA 140. Near Capistrano 

 south. 



Brandegee, Zoe 1:113. Cat. 

 LA Co. (Davidson) to Baja, in saline 

 soil. 

 M. CRYSTALLINUM Linn. 



Ice plant: the broad succulent leaves 

 excellent as a salad; widely distributed. 



An or biennial, prostrate and widely 

 branching, herbage covered with w 

 glistening' papillae; Ivs flat, fleshy, 

 clasping, broadly ovate or spatulate, 

 undulate; fls axy, sessile or nearly so, 

 w or p; ex-tube campanulate, 3-5 li 

 long, lobes ovate, retuse or acute; stigr 

 5. Cruz. SD! Baja! S Africa. 



Abrams, Fl LA 139. 

 SESUVIUM SESSILE Pers; 



Sts prostrate, much branched, ^1-3 dm 

 long or more; Ivs broadly spatulate or 

 linear, 1-4 cm long; fls sessile Or near- 

 ly so, 6-10 mm long; sep ovate-lanceo- 

 late, scar'ous margined. 6 mm long; fil 

 united below the middle, r. 



Abrams, Fl LA 139. 

 MOLLUGO VERTICILLATA L. 



St much branched, prostrate, 10-20 

 cm long, glabrous, not succulent; Ivs 

 in whorls of 5's or 6's, spatulate to 

 linear-lanceolate, entire, obtuse, 10-25 

 mm long, narrowed to a short petiole; 

 fls 1.5-2 mm broad; sep oblong slightly 

 shorter than the ovoid cap; cap rough- 

 ened by the projecting sds; sds minute, 

 smooth and shining or slightly granu- 

 lar. Abrams, Fl LA 138. 



Growing in damp places near bord- 

 ers of pools. Garvanza, Davidson; L'a- 

 guna, Orange Co. 



Tyne localities; "in -Africa, Virginia. 



Linnaeus, sp PI 1:89 (1753). 



Coville, C N H 4:115, 261. 

 GILIA TENUIFLORA Bentham. 



Commonly a ft hi, slender: radical 

 and lower cauline Ivs with shorter 

 lobes than in G. tricolor; upper Ivs sm, 

 few; fls mostly slender tube, 4-5 times 

 the loose panicle: cor p or rose, fun- 

 nelform with slender tube, 4-5 times 

 as long as ex (7-9 li long): its lobes 

 broadly obovate and longer than the 

 sta. 



Gray, Bot Cal 1:498 (1876). 



Monterey to Ubi, Baja (Br.) Jacum- 

 ba, SD Co! "sometimes 2 ft hi." 



