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' NEMACLADUS ADENOPHORUS. 



An erect, annual herb 1-2 cm. high, glabrous, diffusely much- 

 branched, the branches filiform; the rosulate basal leaves entire, 

 oDovate, 5 mm. long, the rameai reduced to subulate bracts ; riow- 

 ers scattered on capillary pedicels ; calyx-ttibe hemispherical, less 

 than I mm. high ; its teech equal ;lobes 01 the upper lip ot the bila- 

 biate corolla about 2 mm. long, the middle margins tringed with 

 long hairs, white, the tips purple-brown, which is continued in a 

 narrow line down the center, lobes of lower lip somewhat smaller 

 and less colored, or entirely white ; filaments monodelphous from 

 the base of the style nearly to its summit, free above and below, 

 anthers free, oblong, with a minute cusp in the sinus of the emar- 

 ginate apex ; style incurved at the summit ; ovar}' surmounted by 

 four rounded, yellowish glands, the anterior pair each produced 

 into an erect, stipe-like process bearing from its summit three 

 parallel, obliquely-declined, pellticid, rod-like appendages ; cap- 

 sule 4-valved ; seeds 10-12, oval, minutely tuberculate. 



On dry, barren mesas, at Rabbit Springs, alt. 2,700 ft., on 

 the Mojave Desert. 4956 Parish, June i, 1901. 



The characcer is drawn from field notes on the living plants, 

 and the remarkable and elegant glandular appendages are dif- 

 ficult to make out in dry specimens. The disposition of color in 

 the corolla, and the appendages of the glands, which appear nec- 

 tariferous, suggest insect fertilization. But the plant is, in fact, 

 self-fertilized. At anthesis the anthers are closed over the stigma, 

 forming a globular termination to the style, and it is not till they 

 have discharged their pollen that they become reflexed on their 

 short free filaments, and leave the stigma exposed. 



New Records for Los Angeles County. 



BY ANSTRUTHER DAVIDSON, C. M., M. D. 



Since the publication of my catalogue of the '"Plants of Los 

 Angeles Co.," by the Southern California Academy of Sciences, 

 in 1896, the botanists of the coast, though few, have been very 

 diligent in their explorations, and as a natural result, quite a few 

 additions have been made to the county list, while the limited 

 range hitherto accorded to many species has been widely ex-- 

 tended. 



Mr. Le Roy Abrams has, in the pages of this Bulletin, al- 

 ready made record of many species new to the county, and of a 



