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EURYPTERA PARVIFOLIA (H, & A.) C. & R. Cont. U. S- NaL 

 Herb. 7: 241. 1900. 



Ferula parvifolia H. & A. Bot. Beech. 348. 1840. 



Peucedanum parvifolia T. & G. Fl. N, A. 1: 628. 1840. 



PeiicedafiMm Californicum C. & R. Bot. Gaz, 13: 143. 

 1888. 



No. 8420, collected July 31, along the railroad about two 

 miles northeast of Del Monte, Monterey county, in the sand 

 hills. It is rather plentiful in the pine woods back of Monterey 

 toward Pacific Grove, which is no doubt the type locality. 



OLE ACE AE 



Menodora spinescens Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 7: 388. 1868. 



No. 8202, collected May 8, on the edge of the sand hills 

 about three miles west of Laws, Inyo county, and observed at 

 various other places in the neighborhood. The type came from 

 "canyons and hillsides, southeastern part of the State of Ne- 

 vada." It is apparently not rare in the desert region, but sel- 

 dom collected, 



POLEMONIACEAE 



Phlox longituba 



Suffrutescent perennial i to 4 dm. high, branched above, 

 the slender woody stems covered with gray flaky bark, only the 

 herbaceous young branches pubescent and glandular, the pubes- 

 cence of short, spreading chaffy hairs; leaves lanceolate or lin-- 

 ear-lanceolate, 3 cm. or less long, 5 mm. or less wide, more or 

 less pubescent with chaffy hairs, scabrous to the touch, the ses- 

 sile base slightly clasping, the apex short-acuminate, apiculate^ 

 the margins slightly inrolled, midvein rather prominent beneath; 

 all but the uppermost internodes equaling or a little exceeding 

 the leaves: pedicels slender, 7 to 10 mm. long, glandular pubes- 

 cent: calyx 7 to 10 mm. long, glandular pubescent, the scarious 

 spaces between the ribs not replicate, but some of them appear- 



