3^ Muhlenbergia, Volume 8 



ish, about i cm. long, membranaceous, pale: calj-x 8 mm. long, 

 puberulent, villous on the short, triangular-subulate teeth. 



Type locality: "S. California, in the mountains east of San 

 Diego, Dr. Palmer." This is number 261 of Palmer's 1875 col- 

 lections, and according to his field notes was collected at "Ori- 

 flamme Mine," which is situated in Oriflamme canyon on the 

 desert slopes of the Cuiamaca mountains about five miles east of 

 Cuiamaca lake. 



Distribution'. Western borders of the Colorado desert in the 

 juniper and pinyon belt, or rarely extending into the yellow 

 pine belt. 



Specimens examined: Big Morongo canyon, altitude 3000 

 feet. Parish joop; Tauquitz valley, San Jacinto mountains, alti- 

 tude 7000 feet. Hall 24JO; twenty miles south of Palm Springs, 

 Hall "/jS; Coyote canyon, Santa Ana mountains, Hall 2ijy; 

 Onflaniuje c&nyon^ Palmer 261^ Abrams jpj2; Laguna moun- 

 tains, Orciitt^ July, 1889. 



8. M0NARDEI.LA OBLONGA Greene, Pittonia 5: 83. 1902. 



Madronella oblonga Greene, Leaflets 1: 169. 1906. 



Stems woody at base, 2 to 4 dm. high: herbage silvery can- 

 escent throughout with dense appressed puberulence: lea\es 

 oblong, 15 to 20mm. long, rounded at the slightly tapering 

 apex, upper surface with retrorsely appressed, subulate, i-celled 

 hairs: bracts broadly ovate, acute or shortly acuminate, mem- 

 branaceous, pale or tinged with rose-purple, 9 to 12 mm. long: 

 calyx 9 mm. long, pubescent and glandular, lobes and sinuses 

 with stiff spreading hairs: corolla apparently pale rose-purple. . 



I have not seen the t3^pe of oblonga^ but from the descrip- 

 tion and distribution there seems little doubt that the plants here 

 described belong to that species. 



Type locality: "In the mountains south of Tehachapi, Cali- 

 fornia." 



Distj^bntion: In the pinyon and lower altitudes of the \el- 

 low pine belts of the mountains bordering on the Mojave desert, 

 from Mt. Pinos to the Panamint mountains, and on the western 

 slope of the Sierra Nevada in Kern cotinty. 



