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SARCOSTEMMA HETEROPHYLLUM, E/ngelm. MSS.; Torr. 1. c., p. 161. Common along banks of 
Colorado to Black cafion. In fruit. The stem is sometimes 10 or 15 feet long. 
Amsonia TOMENTOSA, Torr. & Frém. in Frém. 2d Rep., p. 316; Torr. Mex. Bound. Surv., p. 
158. Yampai valley, near water; growing in tufts 1-2 feet high; March 25. 
OLEACEA. 
ForESTIERA LiGUsTRINA, Poir. Enc. Suppl. 2, p. 264; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound., p.167. Adelia 
ligustrina, Mieb. Fl. 2, p. 224. Camp 62; May 28. With ferbile flowers and young leaves. 
A shrub eight feet high. 
NYCTAGINACEA. 
MIRABILIS MULTIFLORA, Gray in Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv., t. 169. Nyctaginea Torreyana: 
Choisy in DC. Prodr. 13, par. 2, p. 429. About rancherias. ‘The Oaks;’’ November 17. 
MiraBiLis Cauirornica, Gray, I. c. t. 48. From San Diego to Santa Isabel, California ; 
November. Sitgreaves’s Pass; March 25. Riverside mountain and cafion of Diamond river; 
April. Flowers white and purple. ) 
ALLIONIA INCARNATA, Linn, Choisy, l. c. Mouth of Diamond river; April 3. 
ABRONIA FRAGRANS, Nutt.; Torr. & Gray, Bot. Beckwith Rep. 14, t.10. Mouth of Diamond 
river and Camp 66; April, in flower. 
ABRONIA MELLIFERA, Dougl. in Hook. Bot. Mag., t. 2879. Sandy hills, Camp 49. Flowers, 
pale rose color, fragrant; March 1 to 25. 
POLYGONACEA. 
Erioconum Frascroutatum, Benth. in Linn. Trans. 17, p. 411. San Diego, California. A 
shrub 2-5 feet high, with white and purple flowers; November. : 
Er1oconuM POLirouium, Benth. in DC. Prodr. 14, sect. 1, p. 12. Jesup’s rapid, on rocks, | 
Camp 48; February. 
_ Ertoconum Parvirotium, Smith in Rees’s Cycl. Benth., l.c. San Luis Obispo; November. 
A shrub 2-3 feet high. Flowers white, veined with purple. 
ERi0GONUM HELEANTHEMIFOLIUM (E. Wrightii) var. HELEANTHEMIFOLIUM, Torr. in Bot. Mex. 
Bound, p. 116; E. Benth., l. ¢., p. 15. San Felipe, California; November. 
Erroconum vireatum, Benth. in DO. Prodr., l. c., p. 16. San Diego, California; November. 
BE. elongatum, Benth. at least, Frémont’s plant, quoted by Bentham, seems to be hardly distinct. 
RIOGONUM POLYCLADON, Benth., l. c., Santa Isabel and ‘‘The Oaks;” November. 
Ertoconum INFLATUM, Torr. in Frémont 2d Rep.; Benth., 1. c. Gravelly and rocky hills on the 
Upper Colorado, common, March. The branches are more or less inflated below the divisions; 
flowers greenish yellow; radical leaves mostly waved on the margin. Sométimes there are 
small lanceolate leaves at the first division of the stem. 
| RIOGONUM THomast, Torr. in Pacif. R. Road Surv. 5, p. 364. Riverside mountains and 
_ Sitgreaves’s Pass, Upper Colorado; January, March. 
___ERIOGONUM DEFLEXUM, (n. sp.:) annuum; caule nudo ramosisimo glabro ramulis rigidis foliis 
_ radicalibus ovato-orbiculatis, hirutis pedicellis brevissimis deflexis; involucris campanulatis 
_ obtuse—5-dentatis; perigonii laciniis late ovatis obtusissimis basi cordatis interioribus multomi- 
noribus ovate lanceolatis acutiusculis. Three Point Bend; January 19; allied to E. cernuum, 
_ Nutt. but that is much more slender, the peduncles considerably longer than the involucre, 
and the form of the sepals is very different. We have this plant also from the collections of 
_ Mr. Schott collected on the Lower Gila. 
_ CHORIZANTHE BREVICORNU, Torr. in Bot. Mex. Bound., p. 1TT. Desert arroyos, banks of the 
