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No. 8384, collected June 8,: in San Mateo county near. 

 Ocean View, San Francisco, on the Lake Merced side of the 

 Ocean Shore tracks, growing near no. 8382, but has pe'als only 

 half as large. The two looked different in the fieid, but \x\ the 

 dried state seem to be the same species. The species of Godctia 

 have been so confused in literature that accurate delenainations 

 are impossible without a careful revision of the genus. 



Anogra longiflora 



Acaulescent, apparently annual, with a vertical root about 

 5 mm. thick at the crown: leaves ascending, about i dm. long, 

 half of which is petiole, the blade oblong-lanceolate. 2 cm. wide 

 or less, narrowed into the petiole, the apex acute, the margins 

 with short spreading distant teeth and sometimes slightly run- 

 cinate, more or less papillose roughened on both sides, the mar- 

 gins sparingly sbort ciiiate: calyx glabrous, the tube i dm. long, 

 cylindrical except near the top, where it is dilated to funnel- 

 form, the broadest part 15mm. wide; the lobes finally reflexed, 

 3 cm. long, lanceolate, acuminatej nearly i cm. wide at base, the 

 tips not free in the bud: corollas large, white, fading pink, the 

 petals broadly cuneate, 5 cmi. long, fibout 4 cm, wide across the 

 eroded top: filaments subulate, 3 cm. long; anthers linear, 15 

 mm. long, affixfed at the riiiddlei -style a little exceeding the sta- 

 mens; stigma 4 cleft, the lobes' 5 mm. long, spreading: ovary 

 somewhat glandular, the valves apparently not winged. 



•■ The .type lis 'no; .8219, collected May 9, 1906, in Silver can- 

 yon opposite Laws, Inyo county, California, inthfe White moun-:. 

 tains on steep slopes in shale. The flowers are nocturnal, but 

 remain open during part of the following morning. According 

 toFrittoti, 111. Fl. 3: 488, the genus is composed of "caulescent 

 herbs," with flowers "diurnal." Our Californian plants do not 

 accord with these characters, for A. californicu and xylocarpa 

 are both acaulescent,*' the former ■nocturnal as observed by my- 

 self. In The Plant Wori'd,'!: 22.' t§97,T Have recorded the 

 fact that A. albicaulis is nocturnal, and no doubt a little careful 



