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1913] _PARISH—CALIFORNIA PAROSELAS 303 
and New Mexico to Coahuila, Mexico (PurpuUs 115), south to Guaymas 
(PALMER) and Lower California (BRANDEGEE). 
PECIMENS EXAMINED.—Mojave Desert: Inyo Mountains, S. W. AusTIN 
441; Panamint Cafion, May 14, 1906, HALL 6999; Bagdad, May 2, 1892, 
BRANDEGEE; Camp Cady, May 1882, ParisH 83; Sheephole Mountains, 
May 1895, HALL 6097. Colorado Desert: Palm Springs, April 10, 1880 
ParIsH 88, and April ro, 1893, DAvipson; Coachella, April 1905, GREATA 415, 
and HALL 5792; Mecca, April 1904, Mrs. M. McKippen; McCoy Wash, 
April 1905, HALL 5932; Borregos Spring, April 28, 1894, BRANDEGEE; Hodges 
Mountain, April 1905, HALL 5975; Salton, April 12, 1892, Davy 8049; Chucka- 
walla Bench, December 3, 1904, E. E. SCHELLENGER 99; Palo Verde, April 
1905, HALL 5956; Calexico, March 29, 1902, Davy 8005; Dixyland, October 
18, 1912, PARISH 8312. 
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Fic. 1.—Parosela mollis: a, leaf; b, part of rachis, showing the glandular brac- 
teoles; c, calyx, from the inside, to show the glands, which are concealed on the exterior 
by the dense hairs; d, seed; e, mature pod; a,c, d,e, X3- 
2. PARosELA Parry (T. & G.) Heller, Cat. N. Am. Pl. ed. 2. 6. 
1900.—Dalea Parryi T. & G., Proc. Am. Acad. '7:397. 1868.— 
Perennial, the slender woody stems ascending, 1-6 dm. tall, finely 
and closely puberulent, or glabrate, dotted with small flat, dark 
glands: leaflets 3-21, oblong to obovate, obtuse or retuse, I-3 mm. 
long, sparsely puberulent or glabrate, obscurely glandular-dotted 
or glandless: flowers numerous in pedunculate spikes 5-8 cm. long; 
calyx 3 mm. long, nervose, silky-canescent, obscuring the rows of 
small glands in the intervals, or glabrate; upper teeth triangular 
