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ERIOGOXUM PARVIFOLIUM Smith. 



Shrubby, about 3 m hi, more or less 

 w-tomentose thruout: Ivs broadly .ovate 

 to oblong-, 8-18 mm long, acute, abruptly 

 narrowed at base to the very short peti- 

 ole, revolute and undulate on the mar- 

 gins, becoming glabrate above; lower 

 Bracts conspicuous, the upper smaller; 

 inv tomentose, about 3 mm long; per- 

 ianth rose colored, glabrous, about 3 mm 

 long. 



Abrams, Fl LA 117. Common on the 

 sand-dunes along the seashore. 



Davidson, PI LA Co 15. 



SBar; Soledad, SD Co (Or 974). 

 ERIOGOXUM SAXATILE S. Watson. 



Caudex "densely Ify, sparingly branch- 

 ed; Ivs rounded or obovate, obtuse, 12-16 

 mm broad, cuneate at base, densely to- 

 mentose on both sides; petioles short 

 and thick; branches of the cymose pani- 

 cle 1-2 dm long, spreading; bracts sub- 

 foliaceous, triangular; inv 3-4 mm long, 

 teeth acute; perianth rose color, 2-3 mm 

 long, the lobes appressed to the nearly 

 ^labrous ak, this abruptly narrowed at 

 base. 



Abrams, Fl LA 118. Gabriel, SBer 

 mts. 



latchie. Erythea 2:78; Mt Lowe, 

 LA 



Wai-on. Am ac pr 12:267 (1877). 



Coville, CXH 4:188. Panamint mts. 

 _ Santa Lucia mts; SBer (Parry). Ha U 



EBIOGONUM SPECIOSUM Drew. 



rutescent. sts densely clustere;d 

 Ivs sm. broadly oblanceolate, acute at 

 both ends, densely tomentose beneath, 

 glabrate above; petioles 3" long: ped 

 erect, nearly a c hi, bearing 2-4 elon- 

 gated rays which are com again divided, 

 the nodes .all leafy-bracted: inv sm, the 

 acute lobes deflexed; fls numerous, 

 bright y tinged with p. 6" long includ- 

 in~ the slender stipe; sty and fil slightly 

 hairy. Gravelly banks of the South 

 Fork of Trinity river, in Hy-Am-Pum 

 valley, Jl 23. Fls very num and showy." 

 Drew, Torr cl b 16:152. Humboldt 

 Co. Cal. 

 ERIOGOXUM XUDUM Dougl. 



Caudex sparingly leafy; scapes rather 

 slender, fistulose. 3-6 dm hi, sparingly 

 branched above: Ivs broadly ovate or ob- 

 long, obtuse. 1-5 cm long, on slender 

 petioles, undulate, densely tomentose 

 beneath, becoming glabrate above; inv 

 usually 3-6 in each cluster, glabrous or 

 nearly so, 4-6 mm hi; fls glabrous or 

 somewhat villous. 2-3 mm long, w or 

 rose color. 



Douglas, MS. in Bentham, Linn soc tr 

 17:413 (1837). 



Type locality: "plains of the Mul- 

 toonah.'' 



Coville, CXH 4:1S7. Tehachapi can- 

 yon. 



ams, Fl LA 117. Cat. 



EOTHORBIACEAE. 



Monoecious or dioecious herbs, 

 shrubs or trees with acrid, often milky 

 juice: Ivs opp. alt or whorled, entire or 

 toothed, sessile or petioled, sometimes 

 with glands at base; stipules piesent 

 or 0: infl various: fls sometimes ap<?t- 



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alous, often reduced and subtended by 

 an inv, which resembeles a ^x: sta fe^v 

 or num, in 1 or many sr; fil distinct or 

 united: ova usually 3-celled; ovules 1-2 

 in each cell, peduloiio; sty equaling the 

 cells in number, simple, divided or 

 many-cleft: fr mostly a 3-lpbed cap 

 separating often elastically into 3 2- 

 valved carpels from a persistent axis: 

 sds anatropous; embryo straight or 

 slightly curved; endosperm fleshy or 

 oily; cotyledons broad. 



Genus KICIXIS Linnaeus. 

 RICIXIS COMMUXIS Linn. 



L sp PI 1007. 



Davidson. PI LA Co 16; Erythea 1:100, 

 LA Co. 



Parish, Zoe 1:124. 



Castor bean. Cruz; SBer; SD! San 

 Gregorio. Baja (Br). Thoroughly nat- 

 uralized. 



Abrams, Fl LA 234. 



Castor bean; naturalized in the vicin- 

 ity of SBar, and on Cruz (Greene). 



Genus STILLIXGIA Garden. 



Glabrous herbs or shrubs with alt or 

 rarely opp, entire or toothed Ivs, often 

 with '2 glands at base, and monoecious 

 bracteolate apetalous fls in terminal 

 spikes: bractlets 2-glandular: stam fls 

 several together in axils of the bract- 

 lets; ex slightly 2-3-lobed: sta 2-3, ex- 

 serted: pistillate fls solitary in the axils 

 of the lower bractlets; ex 3-lobed: ova 

 2-3-celled; ovules 1 in each cell; sty 

 short, somewhat united at the base: cap 

 2-3-lobed, separating into 2-3 2-valved 

 carpels: sds ovoid or subglobose. 

 STILLIXGIA AXXUA Mull. 



Low, 2-6' hi, somewhat viscid, dichoto- 

 mously branched, sts angled and Ify: Ivs 

 ovate to lanceolate, accuminate, narrow- 

 ed to a broad winged petiole, stoutly 

 3-nerved from base of petiole, ciliate- 

 or spinulose-dentate. 1' long: spikes 

 shorter than Ivs. with 1-3 naked pistil- 

 late fls at base: stam bracts minute. 

 1-nd; pistillate with sm glands on long 

 stout pedicels: cap 2" in diam, with 

 prominent gynophore; central column 0: 

 sd oblong-ovate, 1%" long, smooth, with 

 no caruncle or a very sm one. CD 

 (Parish 7"6i. Mohave: Ut ; Baja: 



DC, Prodr 15:110.'. 



Watson Am ac pr 14:297. 

 STILLIXGIA LIXEARIFOLIA S. Wat. 



Herbaceous, branching from the some- 

 what woody base: sts and branches slen- 

 der, terete, ascending, 3 dm hi or more: 

 Ivs linear, entire or rarely obscurely 

 glandular-toothed, acute, 1.5-2.5 cm long; 

 spikes slender, open, 2.5-4 mm long, with 

 2-7 scattered pistillate fls below; bracts 

 very sm. ovate, acute, minutely glandu- 

 lar "on both sides, 1-fld; staminate fls 

 minute: ex turbinate: sta 2; pistillate 

 ex ": cap 3 mm broad; sd round-ovate, 

 acute. 2 mm long, smooth, somewhat 

 viscid. Baja! 



Abrams. Fl LA 234. SBer; SD. 



Davidson. PI LA Co 16. 

 Genus EUPHORBIA Linnaeus. 



Monoecious herbs or shrubs with alt, 

 opp or verticillate Ivs, and cymose fls 



