228 Plants of Caltfornia. [ZOE 
Nemacaulis Nuttallii Benth. This littoral plant is common 
along the seashore near San Diego. It also grows abundantly on 
a sand-dune of the Colorado Desert near Carriso Creek. The 
two forms named by Nuttall WV. denudata and N. foliosa, are well 
marked at Ocean Beach, San Diego. 
Peucephyllum Schottit Gray. ‘This bush has been found north 
of San Diego County and in northern Lower California, but has 
not been reported from the intermediate region. I collected it in 
the cafions af Carriso Mountains, Colorado Desert. 
Malperia tenuis Watson. On preceeding pages this species 
was noted as growing near the boundary line about Signal 
Mountain. It grows also about Split and Carriso Mountains, 
many miles north of the Mexican boundary line. 
Krynitzkia barbigera Gray, var. inops. Stems weak, flexuous, 
with upwardly appressed pubescence; leaves broadly linear; 
inflorescence congested into glomerules; calyx-lobes much elon- 
gated at maturity, often more than 1 cm. long, densely bearded 
below the middle; fully mature nutlets elongated, obclavate, 
with rather large and sharp-pointed muriculations, the groove 
open from apex to the dilated base. 
The type was collected on the Mojave Desert, June, 1884; 
other specimens not so fully mature are from Inyo, April 16, 
1891; San Felipe, April 25, 1899; Keeler, April 14, 1891, and 
the Needles, Arizona; Dr. E. F. Clark. All in the Brandegee 
Herbarium. 
Allium praecox. A peninsulare Jones, Cont. Bot. x. 22, not 
Lemmon. Five dm. high and less from a bulb 3-4 cm. below 
the surface of the ground: leaves 2-4 from near the base of the 
stem, 2 dm. long or less, 4 mm. wide or less: spathe splitting 
usually into two acuminate segments 2.5 cm. long: umbels 10-20 
flowered; pedicels 2-3 cm. long: perianth segments equal in 
length, 5 mm. long, ovate-acuminate, the inner ones narrower!, 
nearly white, with purple midnerve becoming dull purple: sta- 
mens shorter than the perianth, gradually widened to the base; 
anthers purple: style nearly as long as the filaments, stigma not 
lobed; capsule crestless: bulb coatings with narrow, linear, hori- 
zontally contorted reticulations. 
