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other species, being much narrower, approaching those of C. minor, 
The lower part of the stem is very leafy, the leaves becoming 1 dm. 
long, the rhachis and divisions 0.5-2 mm. broad. The type and all 
specimens are in hb. Univ. Calif. except a small part of a flowering 
branch in hb. Gray and perhaps also in hb. U. 8. Nat. Mus., collected 
by Lyman Belding no. 4, at Laguna, Lower California, altitude 915 m. 
ee 34. C. arrinis H. & A., perennis herbacea; caule simplici piloso- 
hispido 3-6 dm. alto ; foliis lineari-lanceolatis trinerviis integris rar 
pinnatisectis ; floribus subracemosis, inferioribus pedunculatis, superi- 
oribus confertis ; bracteis similibus foliis brevioribus ; calycis segmen- 
tis acute bilobis ; corolla calycem superanti et valde divaricate exserta ; 
labio inferiore exserto protuberanti. — Bot. Beech. 154 (1833) ; Benth. 
in DC. Prodr. x. 532; Gray in Bot. Cal. i. 573, and Synop. Fl. N. Am. it 
pt. 1, 296 ; Hemsl. |. c. 460. — This species is distinctively Californian 
and peculiar to the coast region. It varies extremely in foliage and 
flowers but can scarcely be divided into varieties. ‘The Mexican specl- 
mens in hb. Gray are all from the coast of Lower California, — Todos 
Santos Island, A. W. Anthony, no. 198 ; San Quentin, H. Palmer, n0. 
642, coll. of 1889. 
35. C. MINOR Gray, annua, vel perennis glandulosa et sparse pilosa ; 
caulibus simplicibus vel ramosis 1-plurimis 3-6 dm. altis gracilibus 
foliosis ; foliis anguste linearibus apice attenuatis 2-5 cm. longis ; flor 
us racemosis, pedicellis brevibus filiformibus rectis ; bracteis termina- 
libus fasciculatis apice coloratis anguste linearibus et attenuatis; 
calyce subfalcato in altitudinem 1.5 em. fisso, laciniis 2 filiformibus— 
(L — (type, in hb. Gray). Curmvanva: C. V. Horie 
umholtz Exped.) ; Bigelow ; Wright, no. 1493; Presidio del No 
Schott. Sonora: Los Animos, Thurber, no. 330; Tubac, Parry ; Santa 
Cruz Mountains, Captain EL K. Smith. N. W. Mexico, Seeman, 
‘distributed as C. afinis. This species has more slender flowers than 
its allies. At the summit of the stem the bracts and flowers ate 
