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KtJROTiA J.ANATA (Pursli) Moq, Chenop. Eniuii. 81. 1840. 



Diotis lanata Piirsh, Fl. Am. Sept. 3: 602. 1814. 



Type locality, "on the banks of the Missouri, in open prai- 

 ries. M. Lezmsy In the Botany of California this species is 

 not credited to California except to the east of the Sierra. Mr. 

 Coville, in Cont. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4: 182, reports it from "near 

 the mouth of Tehachapi Pass; and on the desert between Mohave 

 and Willow Spring," both places in Kern county on the desert. 



No. 7705, collected April 14, on desert hills at Randsburg, 

 Kern county, elevation about 3000 feet. It occurred here as a 

 shrub about two feet high, the branches gnarled and crowded. 

 Occasional male plants only were noticed. 



No. 7737, collected April 20, at vSunset, Kern county, on 

 the western side of the San Joaquin valley, the elevation about 

 1000 feet. The plants grew on gravelly hills in rather large 

 clumps, the branches spreading and symmetrical. This station, 

 on the eastern foothills of the inner Coast Range, is the most 

 westerly station recorded. The female plant only was collected 

 under this number. 



No. 7739, collected April 20, at Sunset, Kern county, in 

 company with y'J2)Ti ^^^^ bearing both male and female flowers. 

 The branches in these plants were more strict and wand-like, 

 in appearance quite different from those of the female plant. 

 The strictly male plant was not noticed here. 



Allenrolfia occidentalis (S. Wats.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PI. 

 546. 1891. 

 Halostachvs occidentalis S. Wats. Bot. King Rep. 293. 



1871. 

 SpirostacJivs occidentalis S. W^ats. Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 125. 



1874. 



No. 7793, collected April 29, at McKittrick, Kern county. 



Quite a grove of it occurs a short distance south of the town in 



moist sand and clay, near a small alkaline stream, the shrubs 



about five feet hioh. Orio-inallv recorded bv Watson from 



