282 THE FUR SEALS OF THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS. 



Talinum Guadalupeuse, n. sp. 



Leaves thick and fleshy oblanceolate, 2 to 5 centimeters long, all radical. Eoot 

 fusiform, fleshy, broadening at top into a short rhizoma extending laterally. Flower- 

 ing panicles 3 to 5 decimeters in height, ascending, naked except for the deltoid 

 acuminate scarions bracts at the bases of the divaricate, scattered branches which 

 occupy the upper half. Flowers in terminal close clusters. Sepals 2, roundish, per- 

 sistent. Petals rose-colored, broadly oborate, nearly 1 centimeter long. Stamens 

 numerous. Slender exserted style with a 2 to 3 lobed stigma. Capsule broadly ovoid 

 acute. Walls three-valved, splitting from above. Placenta basal. Seeds disk-shaped, 

 numerous. 

 Sphaeralcia? 



Material scanty. Near northeast landing. 

 Malva borealis, Wallm. 

 Erodium Cicutarium, L'Her. Alfilarilla. 



In fruit. 

 Erodium moschatum, L'Her. 



In fruit. Contrary to Professor Greene's experience in 1885, the Erodiums have 

 become widely extended over the island and form the favorite food for the goats. 

 Rhus Lauriua, Nutt. Laurel sumach. 



In flower. Collected from the shrubs mentioned by Franceschi in the old crater 

 on the northeast side of the island. The only ones seen. 

 TrifoliTim microcephalum, Pursh. 



In fruit, north end of island. 

 Hosackia ornithopus, Greene? 



Too fragmentary for exact determination; near northeast landing. 

 Mentzelia micrantha, Torr. &. Gr. 



North end, in the canyon. 

 Cactus Goodrichii (Scheer.), Kuntze. (Mamillaria goodrichU Soheei.) 



In fruit. Not many specimens observed, and all confined to the south end of the 

 island. 

 Opuutia prolifera, Engelm. Prickly pear. 



Abundant near the northeast part of the island, also near the west side anchorage, 

 and scarce at the south end in the central valley. 

 Mesembryanthemum orystallinum. L. 



Near south anchorage. 

 Filago Califomica, Nutt. 

 Franseria campborata, Greene. 

 Hemizonia frutescens, Gray. Guadalupe tar weed. 



In full flower. Abundant in the south part of the island on very rough, rocky 

 lava soil, or sand near the red lava cones, lieported by Palmer in 1875 as very rare 

 by Greene as abundant. It may have increased, as goats do not relish it. It is 

 remarkable as a sufifrutescent species in a genus of annuals, and was so observed by 

 Dr. Palmer and by our collectors in 1897, as evidenced by specimens. 

 Perityle incana, Gray. 



This fine species was in full flower. Abundant in southern part of island. 



