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Floral leaves not concealing flowers. 
Calyam lobes oplimeslone is ene ss A. pinetorum 
Calyx lobes more than 1% line long. 
eaves smostihymemiire: 25.55.2540 - A. integrifolia 
Leaves somewhat cinereous........... A. desertorum 
Leaves light green, hairs on capsule pustulate at base 
A. viridescens 
Petals 4 lines long or more. 
Petals about 4 lines, capsular hairs with pustulate base 
A. affinis 
Petals about 6 lines long, capsular hairs not pustulate at base 
A. gracilenta 
Seeds irregularly angled, only occasionally grooved. 
Heeirall cealimtchy lomo Or WMO. <4. eetewe eres sss se A. aurea 
Petals small. 
Floral leaves almost concealing the capsule. 
Leaves pinnate partite or much divided. ..A. congesta 
Leaves mostly entire, bracts larger...A. davidsoniana 
Floral leaves not concealing capsule. 
Capsule over 6 lines long, floral leaves much shorter 
A. albicaulis 
Capsule 6 lines long or less, one of the floral leaves 
ASP lonemaseuber capsules seme eee A. montana 
ae Acrolasia micrantha, (T. & G.) Rybd. 
Rather rare. The specimens from Catalina and Guadalupe 
are more decumbent and foliaceous than those of the interior. 
It may be found in nearly all the canyons of the Santa Monica 
mountains, and is probably more common there than anywhere 
else in the county. The plants from the interior are more 
strict and stouter of habit; notably those from Canyon Diablo, 
Davy 245, Saratoga, Santa Clara Co.: Davidson, Catalina 
Is. and Santa Moniea Mts.: Hall 1219, Temecula Canyon, River- 
side Co.: Brandegee July 1888,Little Sur, San Diego Co.: 
Oreutt, June 4, 783, Tia Juana.: Anthony 259, Guadalupe: 
Parish June 1893, Canyon Diablo. 
Vv A. micrantha stricta. .n. var. 
Annual, 8 in. high, upright and stiff in habit, eauline leaves 
11% in. long, 3 lines broad, diminishing upwards, regularly 
sinuate toothed or serrate; floral braets broadly ovate, entire 
or remotely tothed as in type; flowers, capsule and seed as in 
type. The strict habit of growth and the symmetrically toothed 
leaves separate it from the type. F. W. Hubby No. 67, Ap. 6, 
1896, Ojai, Santa Barbara Co.; E. L. Greene, June 24, 1892, Mt. 
Diablo, Cal. The former in the University of California 
the type. 
