199 

 the 5 apical valves spreading at ma- 



, Abrams, Fl LA 299. SBer valley. 



Samolus Valerandi L. var. Americana 

 A. Gray. 

 Davidson, PI LA Co 11. 



Greene, Cal ac b 1:406. 

 PHOL.ISMA DEFRESSUM Greene. 



"Sts solitary, completely covered by 

 the rhombic-ovate, or sometimes ob- 

 long-, closely imbricated scales, fls in 

 a depressed, barely convex hd, 1-2 i 

 broad":' sep 6, linear-filiform, minutely 

 glandular ciliolate: cor tubular-funnel- 

 form 6-lobed, lilac-p: sta shorter and 

 sty longer than in P. arenarium." 

 Greene, Cal ac b 1:198. On roots of 

 Aplopappus Berberidis. Quintin 



(Greene, in 1885). 

 DODECATHEON CXEVELANDI Greene. 



"A ft or 2 hi, pale g and glandular; 

 new rts formed not at the end of the 

 dry season but at its beginning, re- 

 maining dormant through the summer; 

 no tubers formed either originally or 

 by rt-metamorphosis: Ivs scarcely 

 fleshy not depressed but ascending or 

 erect, spatulate-obovate, the margins 

 erose: fls 5-merous. cor bright p with 

 a y base and some dark p spots next 

 the androecium: androecium about 3 li 

 long, fil connate, the tube dark p, the 

 ornate exterior of each fil changing to 

 y at the base of the anth and continued 

 up the back of it nearly to the apex 

 in a lanceolate form and lying in ir- 

 regular folds; anth otherwise p, not 

 quite twice the length of the stamineal 

 tube, slightly divergent around the 

 moderately exserted pistil, retuse at 

 the rather blun,t apex: cap oblong, cir- 

 cumscissile at top: sds r'ish brown, 

 somewhat cubical, the testa sinuously 

 reticulate." Greene, Pittonia 1:214. 

 Type locality SD named in honor of 

 Daniel Cleveland, a pioneer botanist of 

 SD. Baja! Giant Cyclamen. 



Orcutt, W Am Scientist 7:128. 



Abrams, Fl LA 300. "Frequent on 

 dry mesas and grassy hillsides." 

 DODECATHEON HENDERSONI Gray. 



Scapes r or r'ish, 9-14 i hi, from a 

 strong cluster of fleshy fibrous rts; 

 Ivs elliptic, often widest below the 

 middle, the margin more or less crisp- 

 ed, 1-1% i long, on petioles about as 

 long; umbels .3-13-fld, the pedicels 3% 

 i long or less; fls 5, rarely 4-merous; 

 ex cleft into* ovate-lanceolate lobes; 

 pet p with a transverse y band at base, 

 which is edged above by w and bound- 

 ed below by a black p area, oblong, 7 li 

 long; fil black-p; anth clavate, 2 li 

 long; cap oblong, circumscissile well 

 below the summit. Mosquito Bills. 

 Sailors Caps. Rosa. 



Genus FRAXINUS Tournefort. 



Ash: Ivs unequally pinnate, exstipu- 

 late, decid: fls sm, in sm crowded pan- 

 icles, appearing just before the Ivs and 

 from separate buds, dioecious or polyg- 

 amous: fr a 1-seeded samara, with ter- 

 minal wing. 



FRAXINUS OREGAXA Nuttall. 



Oregon ash: tree 15-30 ft hi; Ivs 6-11 

 i long; Ifts 5-7, oblong to oval, acute, 

 entire or somewhat serrate toward the 

 apex, pubescent, especially beneath, 

 glabrate in age: fls dioecious: cor 0. 

 Ore. Baja! 



Abrams, Fl LA 302. San Gabriel and 

 Lytle creek canyons. 



Davidson, PI LA Co 11. 



Nuttall, Sylva 3:59 t 99. 



Jepson, Erythea 1:15. "Scott valley, 

 Handsome trees, 70-90 ft hi." 

 FRAXINUS DIPETALA H. & A. 



Flowering ash: shrub 5-12 ft hi; Ivs 

 2-6 i long; Ifts 3-9, g above, y'ish g 

 beneath when young; fls mostly per- 

 fect; cor w, 3 li long, of 2 distinct oval 

 pet abruptly narrowed at base into 

 very short claws. SBer (Parish). Baja! 



Abrams, Fl LA 302. "Occasional in 

 canyons." 

 Variety TRIFOLJOI.ATA Torrey. 



Baja! Las Huevitas, Baja (Br>. 

 Genus ASCL.EPIAS Liiimteu?. 



Per erect or decumbent herbs, with 

 opp verticillate or rarely alt Ivs, and 

 fls in terminal or axy umbels: ex 5- 

 parted or divided, usually sm. lobes 

 acute, often glandular within: cor 

 deeply 5-parted, lobes mostly valvate, 

 reflexed in anth: corona-column gener- 

 ally present: corona of 5 concave, erect 

 or spreading hords, each bearing with- 

 ^in a slender or subulate incurved horn: 

 fil connate into a tube: anth tipped 

 with an inflexed membrane; winged, 

 the wings broadened below th e middle; 

 pollen-masses solitary in each sac, pen- 

 dulous on their caudicles: stig nearly 

 flat, 5-angled or lobed: follicles usual- 

 ly thick, acuminate: sds usually com- 

 ose. Milkweed. 

 ASCLEPIAS ERIOCARPA Benth. 



Erect, 5-8 dm hi; densely floccose- 

 woolly, the loose wool hardly decid ex- 

 cept from the angled st below; Ivs not 

 rarely ternate and the uppermost alt, 

 elongated-oblong or the u.pper lanceo- 

 late, obtuse or subcordate at base 

 .short-petioled. 10-20 cm long: umbels 

 few or several, on stout peduncles; fls 

 dull w; cor at first woolly outside; 

 lobes longer than the 'pedicels: column 

 short but distinct; hoods shorter than 

 the anth, rather spreading, ventricose, 

 semi-orbicular in outline and open 

 round to near the middle of the back, 

 the summits produced inwardly into 

 an acute angle or tooth barely enclos- 

 ing the filiform acute horn; ova gla- 

 brous, the summit of the sty villous; 

 follicles more or less wooly. 



Abrams, Fl LA 307. "Frequent on 

 dry mesas and in the foothills, also oc- 

 casionally in the pine belt of the San 

 Gabriel mts." 



Bentham, PI Hartw 323 (1849). 



Type locality: "in collibus siccis 

 juxta praedium Tularcitos in vicinibus 

 Monterey, Cal." 



Coville, CNH 4:149. 



