240 



Abrams, Fl LA 377. Occasional in 

 sandy soil toward the coast, also on 

 Catalina Island. In our opinion not a 

 good species and scarcely worthy of 

 varietal distinction. 



Plantago obversa Morris. 

 PLANTAGO HIRTELLA H. B. K. 



Per from a thick rt, hirsute, especi- 

 ally the scape and Ivs; Ivs oblong -ob- 

 lanceolate to narrowly oblong, 5 dm 

 long- or less, tapering below to a short 

 petiole, sparsely dentate; scape usual- 

 ly longer than the Ivs, stout, erect; 

 spike 15-30 cm long, dense, except at 

 base; cor persistent, its lobes close! 

 over the cap; sd 3. 



Abrams, Fl LA 376. 



San Francisco to Chile. 

 PLANTAGO LANCEOLATA Linn. 



Ribgrass or English plantain; widely 

 naturalized. Europe. 

 PLANTAGO MAJOR Linn. 



Glabrous or sometimes sparsely pub- 

 escent; Ivs spreading, long-petioled, 

 mostly ovate, narrowed o: rounded at 

 base, entire or coarsely dentate, 2 dm 

 long or less; scapes exceeding the Ivs, 

 erect, 3 dm long or less; spikes 2 dm 

 long or less; pyxis ovoid, circumscis- 

 sile at about the middle, 5-16-seeded. 



Plantain; a common weed; widely nat- 

 uralized. Europe. 

 PLANTAGO PATAGONICA Jacq. 



British Columbia to Patagonia. 

 VARIETY ARISTATA. A. Gray. 



Parish, Erythea 3:61. "North of San- 

 ta Ana canon, near Mentone, San Ber- 

 nardino Co., Cal." In some almost all 

 the bracts aristate, in others only a 

 few of the lowest ones, forming a tran- 

 sition to the common var. nuda, Gray. 

 Variety GNAPHALOIDES A. Gray. 



Baja! San Diego Co.! 

 PLANTAGO PICTA Morris. 



Utah, Arizona, Southern California 

 (Parish 2643). 

 PLANTAGO OBLONGA Morris. 



Colorado Desert, California (Orcutt). 

 PLANTAGO IGNOTA Morris. 



Ft. Verde, Arizona (E. A. Mearns 199); 

 northern Baja California. 

 PLANTAGO SPECIOSA Morris. 



Santa Catalina Island, California (G. 

 B. Grant 2412). 

 PLANTAGO OBVERSA Morris. 



Del Mar, San Diego County, California 

 (Belle Sumner Angier 21). 



Plantago erecta Morris in part; Torr 

 bot. cl. b. 27:118 (1900). 

 PLANTAGO ERECTA Morris. 

 Plantago patagonica Califo<rnica Greene 

 Man bay reg. 236 (1894). 



California; Oregon. 

 PLANTAGO VIRGINICA Linn. 

 Variety LONGIFOLIA A. Gray. 



San Julio, Baja Cal (Br). 



Genns OXYTHECA Xnttnll. 



Slender dichotomously branched an, 

 stipitate-elandular at the nodes: Ivs in 

 a rosette at base: bracts foliaceous and 

 more or less united, usually ternate: 

 involucres few-fid, more or less dis- 



tinctly edicellate. campanulate or tur- 

 binate, 3-5-cleft, tiie teeth bearing an 

 awn or awnless: fls equal, glandular- 

 pubescent on the outside: sta I). 

 OXYTHECA PERFOL1ATA T. & G. 



Utah; Nevada; Mohave; CD. 

 OXYTHECA TRILOBATA A. Gray. 



Much branched from the base, 1 dm 

 hi or less; Ivs somewhat villous, o"b- 

 lanceolate, 2-3 cm long; bracts ternate, 

 oblong-lanceolate, awned, not reflexed; 

 inv broadly turbinate, 5-parted nearly 

 to the base, strongly nerved, 3-4 mm 

 long, with awns slightly shorter than 

 the lobes; pedicels spreading. 4-10 mm 

 long; fls 3-5 in each inv, light rose 

 color, 2 mm long; seg ligulate-oblong, 

 3-cleft, the lobes lanceolate, acumin- 

 ate, slightly erose on the sides; ovary 

 triangular. 



Abrams, Fl LA 116. SBer and SD Co. 

 anBer Co (Parish 600). Ha U 76. 



LICHENES. 



ACOLIUM BOLANDERI Tuck. 



SD, on rocks and pebbles (Or 2118). Baja. 

 Hasse, Erythea 3:41; 4:15*3 "A teredo- 

 like fungus and not a lichen." (Stizenber- 

 ger). 

 ACOLIUM STI. JACOBI Tuck. 



"Thallus of white granules soon com- 

 pacted into a chinky crust; apothecia of 

 middling size in this genus (in the soli- 

 tary specimen mm, 5-8 in width, and 

 about the same in height), of the sub- 

 stance and color of the thallus. more or 

 less turbinate. the interior exciple yellow, 

 the disk more or less protruded, black, 

 but yellowish green at the surface. 

 Spores (no thekes observed) rounded and 

 short-ellipsoid, bi-locular, 0.020-40 mm 

 loug, 0,016-30 mm wide." Tuckerman, 

 Torr cl b 10:22. Mesas, SD (Pringle! Or). 

 A LECTORI A CANARIENSIS Mont. 



San Diego (Palmer). 

 ARTHONIA ANASTOMOSANS Ach. 



Hasse, Erythea 3:44; 4:108. On various 

 barks, LA Co. 

 ARTHONIA DISPERSA (SchracO. 



Hasse, Erythea 3:44, on Quercus, LA Co 

 Variety TETRAMERA Stiz. 



Hasse, Erythea 4:108. On Que 

 Variety CYTISII Mass. 



Hasse. Erythea 4:108. On Quercus. 

 ARTHONIA EPIGINA Tuck. 



San Diego (Orj. 

 ARTHONIA GLOBOSA Tuck. 



San Diego mesas (Or 2132) 

 ARTHONIA ORBOLIFERA A'h. 



Hasse, Erythea 4:108. On Heteromeles. 

 ARTHONIA PREMNEA Tuck. 



Hasse, Erythea 4:150, LA Co. on dead 

 twigs. 

 ARTHONIA RADIATA Pers. 



H<aj?e. Erythea 3:14. on Jug ans and 

 Quercus, LA Co: 4:10S. 

 ARTHONIA SANGUINE A Hig. 



Baja, on cacti (Or). 

 ARTHONIA STICTELLA Stiz. 



Hasse, Erythea 4:10S. On bark. 

 BIATORA ATROPURPUREA Fr. 



San Diego (Or 2125). 

 BIATORA COARCTATA Nyl. 



Hasse. Erythea 4:97, 108, LA CM. "ii 

 earth and rocks. 



