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The flowers are much the same as in T. gracilentum y but the 

 leaves have no resemblance to it whatever. If we were to hold 

 fast to the views of mam-, and indeed it must be admitted that 

 it has been our own, that in order to have species we must find 

 characters in the flower or fruit, then we must reduce this to a 

 variety, but when we consider the striking characters of the 

 leaves we are obliged to recognize their importance as a struc- 

 tural difference in this case, and give it specific rank. 



The plant from Santa Catalina Island has linear-lanceolate 

 leaves, while those of the type from Guadalupe Island are ob- 

 long-lanceolate, acute at each end, with spinulose-serrate margins 

 and a mucronate apex. 



A note on one of the sheets of the type collection says- 

 "Rather abundant among rocks and trees on hillsides. Flowers 

 whitish with red center, becoming redder on the edges." 

 Lower California 



Specimens examined — Guadalupe Island, Palmer 26; Fran- 



ceschi j~. 



California 



Los Angeles county: Santa Catalina Island, Mrs. Trask\ 

 March, 1896. 



Ventura county. San Nicholas Island, Mrs. Trask jj and 

 April, 1897. 



T. ciliolatum Benth. PI. Hartw. 304. 1848. 



T. filiation Nutt. Journ. Phila. Acad. II. 1: 132. 1848; not 

 Clark. 



T. ciliatum var. discolor Loja. Nuovo Giorn. P>ot. 15: 146. 

 1883. 



Bentham in his original description gives the valley of the 

 Sacramento, and between San Miguel and Santa Barbara as the 

 type localities for his plant, while Nuttall's plant came from Los 

 Angeles. The species can readily be recognized by the charac- 

 ter of the calyx teeth, which are scarious and lacerate-eiliate. 

 Its distribution seems to be from Oregon to Lower California. 

 Bentham does not state the color of the flowers, and Nuttall says 

 they are "ochroleucous." Our observation of it in the field in- 



