BULL[:TIN 



or THE 



SooiHern Galllornla flGadeniii ol SGlences 



VOL. 2. LOS ANGELES, CAL, OCT. I, 1903. NO 7 



NEW YORK 



BOTANICAL, 

 GARDEN 



A Fe^v New or Rare Southern California Plants 



BY S. B. PARISH 



^^ DRABA CUNEIFOLIA SONORAE. D. Sonorae, Greene^ 



Bull. C'aL Acad.. 12:-")!). 'i'hc only L'alifoniian station given for 

 this plant in the Synoptical Flora is "Chollas Valley 

 near San Diego." However, it is probably widely spread in 

 Sonthern California. We have it from Los Angeles (Davidson), 

 Riverside (Hall), and near Colton (Parish). Watson main- 

 tained it on the stellate hairs of the pod. in distinction from 

 the simple hairs on the pod of the Nnttallian species. But in 

 our specimens the sarae^ pod commonly has a comraingiing of 

 simple, 1-2 branched, and stellate hairs in varying proportions. 

 Even the remaining character, "racemes nearly sessile," is in- 

 constant, as they often are more or less leafy below. The 

 variety, integrifolia, Wats., is a foi'in of sterile soils, distin- 

 guished by its small size, and the absence of hairs on the pods. 

 We have it from Santa ^lonica (Hasse), and San Bernardino 

 (Parish).' 



AMARANTHUS DEFLEXUS. Linn, Sp. PI. 222. This 

 Southern European plant, which has been reported in 

 this State only from the Bay Region, was collected in June, 

 1902, at Los Angeles, by Mr. Ernest Braunton. 

 ^ BRANDEGEA PARVIFLORA, Watson ex Rose, Contr. 

 U. S. Nat. Herb. 5 :120. The type of this species was collected in 

 1879 by Mr. W. G. Wright, in West Canyon, at Palm Springs, 

 in the Colorado Desert, not "near San Bernardino," as erro- 



