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MUHLENBERGIA 



THE MONARDPXLAS OF SOUTHERN 



CALIFORNIA— II 



Hv L. K. Ahrams 



6. MoxARDKLLA VIMIXKA Greene, Pittonia 5: H^. 1902. 



Madronella vinu)ira Greene, Leaflets 1 : 169. 1906. 



vStenis woody at base, abont 6dm. high, (^lancons j^^reen, 

 finely piibernlent: leaves narrowly linear-lanceolate, 2 to 4 cin. 

 long, glaucous green, clothed with fine comparatively sparse pu- 

 berulence, this upwardly appressed on upper surface, oil ducts 

 thickly crowded on lower surface: bracts ovate-lanceolate, green- 

 ish, tinged with rose-purple: calyx pubescent, villous on the tri- 

 angular-subulate teeth. 



Tvpe locality: "From some unrecorded locality in the moun- 

 tains of San Diego Co., California." 



Distribution: F'oothills on the coastal slope of San Diego 

 county. 



Specimens examined: San Diego county, locality not given, 

 Vasey 491 (type); Poway, Susan G. Stokes, August, 1895; Mc- 

 Coon's ranch, near Poway, Parish 4421; San Diego, Brandegee, 

 May 21, 1894. 



7. MoxARDKLLA LixoiDES A. Grav, Proc. Am. Acad. II: loi. 



1876. 



Madrofiella linoides CixetWQ, Leaflets 1: 169. 1906. 



Perennial from a woody base, 3 to 5 dm. high: branches 

 silvery with verv fine, almost imperceptible, retrorsely appressed 

 pul)erulence: leaves 15 to 20 mm. long, linear or linear-oblong, 

 entire, thick, veins not evident, silvery with very minute puber- 

 ulence composed of triangular i-celled hairs, those on upper sur- 

 face upwardK' appressed or curx-ed: l^racts broad 1\- ovate, or acut- 



