452 POLYGALACE.E. Pohjgala. 



breadth : inflorescences short, 3-4-flowerecl, soon recurving : flowers and fruit much as in 

 the last but beak of keel more slender. — Brittou in Wheelork, 1. c. 143. P. Arizona;, var. 

 tenui/olia, Chodat, 1. c. 109. — W. Texas, Tom Greene Co., Tu-etdy, and what a])pears to be 

 the same in S. Arizona, Lemmon, nos. 497 and 2641. 



++ ++ -H- Glabrous or nearly so : low shrubs of the Pacific Slope. 

 P. corniita, Kellogg. Branching shrub, 2 to 6 feet high : leaves elliptic-oblong to oval, 

 obtuse, often thickish, 6 to 15 lines long, rather abruptly narrowed at tlie base to distinct 

 but very short petioles : outer sepals tomentulose over the whole outer surface, rarely almost 

 glabrous : flowers 4 lines in length, yellowish or greenish white, borne in short mostly ter- 

 minal racemes : wings oblong : jietals scarcely etjualliug the keel ; tliis tipped with a slender 

 straiglitish beak : capsule orbicular, refuse, 4 lines in diameter ; seeds very hairy with deeply 

 lobed caruncle half their length. — Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. i. 62 ; Wheelock, 1. c. 147. P. C'uli- 

 fornica, Nutt. in herb, as to preserved types ; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 59, but certainly 

 not P. Californica, Nutt. (as syn.) in Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 671, which without doubt relates 

 to the next species. P. cucullata, Newberry, I'acif. R. Rep. iv. 76, not Beuth. P. Califor- 

 nica, Chodat, 1. c. 106, t. 18, f. 6-9. — Coniferous woods, &c., mountains of California from 

 Los Angeles Co., Nevin, northward perhaps to Oregon ; first coll. by yuttall. 



P. Californica, Nutt. Similar in foliage but mostly of lower stature; stems shorter, more 

 slender and numerous : flowers of two kinds ; the larger showy, half inch in length, roseate, 

 borne in sliort terminal racemes, mostly sterile : outer sepals ciliolate, otherwise glabrous : 

 wings spatulate : petals mostly exceeding the keel ; this bearing a short thickish mostly 

 recurved beak : inconspicuous fertile flowers upon basal shoots : capsule ovate to suborbicu- 

 lar, 3 to 4 lines in diameter ; soft puberulent seeds capped by a less deeply lobed caruncle. — 

 Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. i. 671 (where definitely characterized but erroneously regarded as 

 identical with the very different and probably Mexican P. Nutk-ana) ; Greene, Fl. Francis. 

 93; Wheelock, 1. c. 111. P. Nutkana, Torr. & Gray, 1. c. ; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 49, 1. 12; 

 Chodat, 1. c. 105, t. 18, f. 5 ; not Moc. P. cucullata, Benth. PI. Hartw. 299; Brew. & Wats. 

 1. c. ; Wheelock, 1. c. 146 (by clerical error, see Bull. Torr. Club, xix. 32). — Mountains and 

 hillsides, Oregon, Howell, to Sta. Barbara, California, and southward, as P. Fls/iice, Parry, 

 Proc. Davenp. Acad. iv. 39, of Lower Calif., is doubtless, as stated by Chodat, Bull. Herb. 

 Boiss. iv. 898, only a robust southern form of the same species. 



-t— -t— Branches mostly indurating with age and spinescent-tipped. 



P. SUbspinosa, Watson. Puberulent or rarely pubescent to almost glabrous, 2 to 6 inches 

 or more in heiglit, from a long stout ligneous root and considerably branched stock : leaves 

 lance-oblong to elliptic, spatulate or almost linear, of firm texture, acute to very obtuse, 5 to 

 10 lines long, narrowed to a sessile base : flowers 4 to 5 lines long : elliptic-oblong mo.stly acute 

 or acutish wings and tips of the lateral petals rose-purple ; keel yellow, with a distinct but 

 blunt beak : obovate retuse glabrous or glabrate capsule veiny. — Am. Nat. vii. 299 ; Ben- 

 net, Jour. Bot. xvii, 140; Brew. & Wats. Bot. Calif, i. 59 ; Wheelock, 1. c. 144 ; Chodat, I.e. 

 109, t. 18, f. 16-17. — Foothills of W. Colorado, H. C. Long, to Silver City, Nevada, A'e%.9, 

 and northern borders of Arizona, Palmer. 



P. acanthoclada, Gray. Stems more ligneous, 2 or 3 feet high, becoming an inch in 

 thickness (ace. to Jones), at first cinereous-tomentulose, copiously branched; branches end- 

 ing in divaricately spreading spines : leaves much as in the last, but in the type smaller, 3 to 

 5 lines in length, Inerved : flowers white or with petals purplish-tinged at the tips: wings 

 obovate, rounded at the apex : keel with a short blunt or in some cases almost obsolete beak 

 or mere ridge ; fruit (ace. to Jones) oblong-ovate, 2^ lines long, deeply notched. — Proc. 

 Am. Acad. xi. 73 ; Coulter, Man. Rocky Mt. Reg. 30; Wheelock, 1. c. 144; Jones, Zoe, iii. 

 284 ; Chodat, 1. c. 110, t. 18, f. 18-20. — W. Colorado, Bran(lpf]ee,to Esmeralda Co., Nevada, 

 S/iorklf I/, and Sta Catalina Mts., Arizona, Lemmon; first coll. by Brnndeqee. 



Var. intricata, A. I-'astwood. Leaves about twice as large (8 or 10 lines long), gla- 

 brate or nearly so : wings "tipped with rose-color": fruit oval, deeply emarginate, about 2 

 lines in length, "red on the margin." — Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. ser. 2, vi. 283. — Near the 

 eastern border of Utah, Miss Eastwood. Without characters which well developed speci- 

 mens of the too little known type may not also exhibit. 



