( 392 ) 
Distribution: Along the seashore from San Francisco south to 
Orange County. Upper Sonoran. 
Specimens examined: Playa del Rey, Abrams 2502; Santa 
Monica, Hasse 4823; Redondo, Grant 724. 
3. SYRMATIUM. CatirorNiA BROOM. 
Herbage nearly glabrous, not silky-pubescent. 
alyx-teeth subulate, about 2 mm. long. 1. S. glabrum. 
Calyx-teeth very short and triangular. 2. S. junceum. 
Herbage appressed silky-pubescent. 3. S. procumbens. 
1. SYRMATIUM GLABRUM Vogel, Linnaea 10: 591. 1836. 
Hosackia scoparia Nutt.; Torr. & Gray, Fl. N. Am. 1: 325. 
838 
1838. 
Hosackia glabra Torr. U. S. Expl. Exped. 17: 274. 1874. 
Lotus glaber Greene, Pittonia 2: 148. 18g0. 
Type locality: “California.” Probably collected in the vicinity 
of the old Russian settlement, near Bodega Bay. 
Distribution: Common on dry hillsides and slopes, especially 
in chaparral, throughout the California Sub-area of the Upper 
Sonoran, from Mendocino County and the western slopes of the 
Sierra Nevada southward to northern Lower California. 
The species of this genus here included are low broom-like suf- 
frutescent plants, and not true shrubs. 
Specimens examined: Santa Barbara, Elmer 3881; Torrey 105; 
Sulphur Mountain, near Santa Paula, Abrams & McGregor 32; 
Oakgrove Canyon, Liebre Mountains, Abrams &9 McGregor 390; 
Los Angeles, Tracy & Evans, July 5, 1887; foothills, near San 
Bernardino, Parish 4776, S. B.t WW. F. Parish 146; San Diego, 
Nuttall; Thurber 524; Orcutt, Feb. 15, 1886; Palmer 58; Jacumba 
Hot Spring, Abrams 3652. 
2, S¥RMATIUM JUNCEUM (Benth.) Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. 2: 
147. 1886. 
Hosackia guncea Benth. Trans. Linn. Soc. 17: 326. 1837. 
Lotus junceus Greene, Pittonia 2: 148. 1890. 
Type locality: “California.” Collected by Douglas, probably 
in the vicinity of Monterey. 
Distribution: A maritime species occurring along the coast from 
Monterey to San Diego. It is closely related to S. glabrum, and 
