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the spur a little longer, and possibly the corolla may be a trifle 

 smaller." The type was collected at Antioch, Contra Costa 

 covnty, in May, 1883, by Mrs. Curran. 



PivECTRiTiS GLABRA Jepsou, Fl. West. Mid. Cal. 475. 1901. 



No. 8558, collected May 23, about three miles beyond San 

 Mateo, San Mateo county, ou the Half Moou Bay road, eleva- 

 tion 200 feet, on a grassy slope facing northward in damp ground. 

 This has the same shaped fruit as the type, which is not, how- 

 ever, "wholly glabrous," but occasionally is somewhat pubes- 

 cent on the back as well as on the under side of the beak. The 

 type is Davy 951, collected at Antioch, Contra Costa county, 

 April 7, 1895. 



No. 8590, collected May 30, near Smith Creek, Santa Clara 

 county, elevation 2150 feet, in a narrow ravine facing northward 

 in moist ground. This, like no. 8558, has the back of the fruit 

 pubescent, the wings glabrous, but the shape of the fruit is like 

 that of P. glabra. 



Plectritis iiitida 



Tall and stout, 6 dm. high or less, the stems as much as 

 5 mm. in diameter, brownish, smooth and .shining, slightly 

 scurfy at the nodes, branched from the base, the branches as- 

 cending, the lowermost 3 dm. long: the first two pairs of leaves 

 on margined petioles 4 cm. long, the blades broadly oblanceo- 

 late, between 3 and 4 cm. long, the next several pairs oblong, 

 sessile, 3 or 4 cm. long, all obtuse; the uppermost ovate, i to 2 

 cm. long, acute or acutish, sessile: inflorescence terminal, com- 

 monly in several approximate whorls, these composed of rather 

 many short branches: calyx lobes linear-attenuate, about 5 mm. 

 long: corollas pinkish, small, 4 mm. long, the small lobes nearly 

 equal, barel)- i mm. long and as widej spur i mm. longer than 

 the corolla tube, stout for the size of the flower: fruit pale yel- 

 low-brown, smooth and shining, nearly 2 mm. long, the dorsal 

 side raised and rounded but hardly keeled, not grooved, the ven- 



