BOTANICAL NOTES. 227 



BOTANICAL NOTES. 



BY MARY K. CURRAN. 



T. Plants from Baja California. 



The following small but very interesting collection of 

 plants was made by Mr. Walter E. Bryant, already well 

 known as an ornithologist, who spent some of the early 

 months of this year in the vicinity of Magdalena Bay, 

 studying and collecting the mammals and birds of that 

 region. Several plants have been omitted from the list, being 

 generically undeterminable because imperfect; and many 

 are specifically so, for the same reason, or for lack of the 

 necessary literature. 



Argemone Mexicana L, var. alba. 



Sisymbrium canescens Nutt. 



Sisymbrium, sp. 



Lepidium nitidum Nutt. 



Lyrocarpa Coulteri Hook. & Harv. 



BiSCUTELLA, sp. 



Oligomeris subulata Boiss. 



Krameria parvifolia Benth. 



Drymaria Veatchii. — Prostrate-spreading, minutely pu- 

 bescent; leaves ovate, tapering into slender petioles of about 

 the same length and together with the flowers, fascicled in the 

 axils; pedicels slender, 2-8 lines long; sepals concave oblong- 

 ovate with broad scarious margins; petals nearly twice the 

 length of the sepals, 6-8-lobed, the outer lobes rather 

 large, spatulate, longer than the rest, and extending down- 

 ward as an undulate margin to the claw, the intermediate 

 ones linear or lanceolate: seeds dark-brown, strongly curved. 



2d Ser. Vol. I. (16) Issued Dec. 11, 1888. 



