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SELAGINELLACEAE 



Selaginella hanseni 



No. 8173, collected April 12, in Madera county about three 

 miles above Pollasky, growing mostly on flat granite rocks at 

 the point of contact with the soil. Rather common in the vi- 

 cinity. 



GNETACEAE 



Ephedra viridis Coville, Cont. U. S. Nat. Herb. 4: 220. 1895. 

 No. 8299, collected May 21, at the mouth of a canyon 

 about three miles south of Bishop, Inyo county, in the Sierra 

 foothills in granite sand, the elevation about 4500 feet. It oc- 

 curs here and there, but was nowhere abundant. The type was 

 collected "near Crystal Spring, Coso Mountains, Inyo County, 

 California." 



MELANTHACEAE 



Toxicoscordion arenicola 



Bulbs broadly ovoid, 15 mm. or less in diameter, clothed 

 with dark brown outer coats: stems 5 dm. or less high, rather 

 slender, glabrous, leafy below: leaves somewhat sheathing, 

 mostly basal, a little more than half the length of the stem, 

 8 mm. wide or less, scabrous on the margins, not noticeably stri- 

 ate, reduced on the upper part of the stem to bracts with broad 

 base and filamentous apex: inflorescence at first short and denrCy 

 3 cm. across, 4 or 5 cm. long, at length becoming 1 to 2 dm, 

 long: pedicels very slender, 15 mm. long or less, both spreading 

 and ascending: bracts membranous, 5-7 mm, long, acuminate 

 from a base 2 mm. wide: perianth white, 7 mm. across when ex- 

 panded, the divisions oblong, the outer ones a little shorter and 

 narrower than the inner, these 3 mm. long, over 2 mm. wide, all 

 faintly 3-toothed at apex and equally very short clawed (about 

 Yi mm.) at base, with a small yellow almost orbicular fimbriate 

 gland just above the claw: stamens about 4 mm. long; anthers 



