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This species has been referred to A. unifolium, A. campanula- 
tum, A, serratum and A. peninsulare by different botanists. A. 
peninsulare Lemmon, is a plant common in the foothills distant 
from the coast, rose-pink in color and appears to be a luxuriant 
form of A. serratum. 
A. precox is common about San Diego, on northern slopes of 
cafions, especially near the coast, and is a conspicuous part of the 
early flora of February. It has been distributed in collections 
from Ensenada; of Cleveland, from San Diego; El Cajon, San 
Diego County; S. B. Parish, San Bernardino, No. 4667; A. W. 
Anthony, 187; Santa Cruz Island, T. S. Brandegee: C. F. Baker, 
3391. Dr. Watson’s description of Al/ium hyalinum, Proc. Am. 
Acad., xxiv. 87, not 4. hyalinum Curran, Bull. Cal. Acad. i. 155, 
seems to have been drawn from the Santa Cruz Island specimens. 
Salvia Greatai. Shrubby, branching, the young stems 
white aud tomentose with white branching hairs, 1-1.5 m. high: 
leaves ovate-lanceolate, tipped with a spine and also spinose- 
pinnatifid, sessile, 2.5 cm. long, white-tomentose on both faces, 
especially beneath: flowers in 4-5 seesile, capitate 6-10-flowered 
clusters near the ends of the branches, surrounded by spinulose- 
awned, tomentose bracts, the outer bracts broady ovate and 
spinulose-toothed, the inner becoming linear-lanceolate: calyx 
tomentose, 1 cm. long, the upper lip tipped with a spine, and near 
its base are two smaller spines representing lobes; lower lip of 
two linear-lanceolate lobes 3 mm. long, spinulose-awned: corolla 
nearly twice as long as the calyx, ochroleucous, slightly and 
gradually ampliated; upper lip 3 mm. long, with two pointed 
lobes; lower lip slightly longer, 3-lobed, the middle lobe broadest 
and longest and irregularly fimbriate: anther of the lower fork of 
the connective half as long as the upper and polleniferous. 
This species has characters both of § Echinosphace and § Pycnos- 
phace, but is very unlike S. carduacea and S. Columbarie of these 
sections. It was collected by H. M. Halland L. A. Greata in 
Cafion Springs wash, about four miles northeast of Dos Palmas, 
Riverside County, California. No. 5848, H. M. 
Tetracoccus Hallii. A rigidly branched shrub of gray ap- 
pearance, 2 m. high, the smaller branches often spinescent, 
