especially the cob yigart bg 
red; Ivs cl red 
51 
are Pa age = beds, the moun- 
k. 
reoso 
knee-high. The Pe eran are abso- 
luteiy devoid of grass 0 s. 
The mineral wea, principally itis 
eonstitutes the whole ot of 
nesburg, with an aggregate 
eda tpe re ot about 1,200. 
WEST a SCIENTIST: 
tablished 1 cane 
FP. ubli shed Mont 
ce 10c a copy: $1 a year: wae 
CHARLES igh Aga mo — OKCU TT, iiditor. 
Number 365 Twenty-first Stree 
San Diego, Catiforn 
RR 
COLLEO OTED TED DESCRIPTIONS. 
OXYTHECA C ARYOPHYLLOIDES Pry. 
simple primary stem, or branching 
from the base, upper " stems prolonged 
ender, 
i 
less glandular-pubescent ant 
> Iws and bracts parently st tri- 
gose-puhescent, the whcle her se nd 
oblanceo acntats, 
YY peareeGl, 4-8 linear, about as long as the 
52 
lines long; involucres obpyramidal, 3 lines 
high, shallowly 5 Pipa each lobe with a 
naz fede We ieibbe: Sak SuREeI. Wiener 
ped ae be an awn a ine or less in length: 
ils usually 4, on short pedicels, slightly 
bescent on the 
oo. divisions, 1-three-fourths po 
stamens 9: akene triangular, 
closed by ihe withering-persistent Abani 
nth.”—Ha U 75. 
OXYTHECA L LUTEOLA Par 
“Prostrate (3-10 in. a "Richtotom- 
ously branched from the base, smooth, or 
equaling the bracts; fls pubescent, - 
ed (7-15), developing centripetally, the 
shert pedicel jointed at of the 
i ooh 
m 
of the involucral awns, the smaller us- | 
ually staminate and abortive, with ec 
bracteoles of 2 kinds, one linear-spatu-  _ 
late, pubescent and ciliate, the other © 
pedicels; 
