T918] PARISH—CALIFORNIA PLANTS 339 
side of Eagle Mountains at Cottonwood Springs (10856, May 13, 
1916) 
RUTA CHALAPENSIS L. Mant. 1:69. 1767.—Abundant for some 
distance along a street in the Mexican quarter at Ventura (11046, 
September 1916). The Ruta bracteosa of DAviwson’s Plants of Los 
Angeles County, reported as found “in a field at El Monte.” 
Tetracoccus Haiti Brandegee, Zoe 5:229. 1908.—Abundant 
on the arid hills at Cottonwood Springs, in the Eagle Mountains, a 
part of the range dividing the Colorado from the Mojave Desert 
(10844, 10845, May 13, 1916). The type was collected, in flower 
only, at Chuckawalla Bench, in the same region as above, by Hail 
and Greata 5865, and the plant is known only from these two col- 
lections. A compact rigid shrub 0.6-1 m. high; capsule ovoid to 
ovoid-oblong, light brown, densely hirsute with very short: white 
hairs, 6~7 mm. high; carpels 3, lobulate at base, 1-seeded; seeds 
light in color, shining, minutely puncticulate; caruncle minute, 
wart-shaped. 
* CONDALIA LyciomES (Gray) Weberb. in Engl. and Prantl. 
Nat. Pflanzenf. 35:404.—Forming dense thickets along the edge 
of the dry wash at Cottonwood Springs (10846, May 13, 1916). 
* MENTZELIA NITENS Greene, Fl. Franc. 234. 1891.—In dry 
washes, Lone Willow Springs, Argus Mountain (ror29, May 9, 
1915). . 
MENTZELIA REFLEXA Coville, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 7:74. 
1892.—This is a common plant in dry hot canyons in the Panamint 
Mountains and Death Valley region, where the type was collected 
by Coville and Funston. Furnace Creek (10041, May 17, 1915); 
Salt Creek (10063, May 21). A few specimens were found at 
Calico (9780, April 23), which is the western known limit. 
* OPUNTIA ACANTHOCARPA Engelm. and Bigel.; Engelm. Pacif. 
R.R. Rept. 4:51. 1856.—An abundant and vigorous growth of this 
Opuntia forms a distinct belt along the base of the New York 
Mountains near Leastalk. 
OPUNTIA MOJAVENSIS Engelm. and Bigel.; Engelm. Pacif. R.R. 
Rept. 4:40, pl. 9, figs. 6-8. 1856.—In 1853 BicrLow collected a 
platopuntia “on the Mojave, west of the Colorado,” to which the 
foregoing name was given. In April 1915 I sent living specimens 
