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S delphinifolia ( e da3 

 V humilis Ge da'} 

 Modiola ( aroliniana Don. 



The West American Scientist. 



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da 3 



Genus MALVASTRUM A. Gray. 



MALVASTRUM DENSIFLORUM S. W. 

 MALVASTRUM EXILE A. Gray. 

 M FasCICULATuM Ge da 3 

 MALVASTRUM FREMONTII Torr. 



as long as the petioles and mostly jointed 

 near the base or the lower above the mid- 

 dle: calyx-lobes broadly ovate, acute; 

 corolla bright orange, 6-9" long: calyx 

 and fr. villous-pubescent; carpels 10, 

 abruptly short-beaked, 3-seeded, 4" 

 long, about equalling the calyx. On Todos 

 Santos Bay, Lower California, by C. C. 



MALVASTRUM MARRUBIOIDES D.-H, Parry, January, 1883, and at Tia Juana, by 

 MALVASTRUM ROTUNDIFOLIUM A.G. 

 MALVASTRUM THURBERI A. Gray. 



Genus SPHAERALCEA S. N. Hilaire. 



SPHAERALCEA AMBIGUA A. Gray. 

 SPHAERALCEA EMORYI Torr. 

 SPHAERALCEA FREMONTII Torr. 



C. R. Orcutt, in May of the same year."— 

 S. Watson, Proc. Am. Acad., xx. 357 

 (Feb. 21, 1885). 



ABUTILON CRISPUM Sweet. 



ABUTILON LEMMONI S. Watson. 



"Perennial, the stout half-woody 

 branching stems 1-2° high, hoary through- 

 out with a very dense short stellate 

 pubescence, its stellate character scarce- 



S. OROUTfll Rose. 



"Perennial (?), 60-90 cm high, with dense, 

 stellate pubescence througeout; leaves thick- 



ish, ovate, entire or somewhat 3 lobed, with fr perceptible on the calyx: leaves cor- 



slightly cordate or truncate base, obtuse; lis date to cordate-lanceolate, acute or 



Ismail, in close, glomerate clusters, on short or slightly acuminate, dentate, the blade 



long racemes; calyx 4 mm long, with ovate usually Y or less (sometimes 2') long, 



lobes; petals 8 mm long brick-red; s .vies cla- about equalling or shorter than the slen- 



yate, thickened; carpels 12, reniform, strongly ^ petioleS; gli htl er aboye . pe _ 



reticulated except the minute terminal por- - 



. ,. ' . . , , r vi!wf.,i duncles axillary, solitary, shorter than 

 tion, 2mm m diameter, 1-seeded. Collected 



nearCarriso [not Canso] creek, e, 1 N 1890, by the leaves, joined near the top: calyx 

 Or (No. 2-210). This species, although referred with broadly ovate acute lobes; corolla 

 |o Sphseralcea, can hardly be kept out of Mai- y. or orange, small (3-4'' long): carpels 

 Ireopsis. 'i be carpel is more like that of the about 9, acute, 4-5" long, finely pubescent, 



3-seeded, equalling or a little exceeding 



Watson, Proc. 



Am. Acad., xx. 357-8 (Feb. 21, 1885). 



latter genus than of any other known species, 



i yet very similar to those of S coulter! and S ^ 



ealifornica " Ro*e na nb eont 1 289 



SPHAERALCEA SULPHUREA S. Wat. 



G en us SID A Linnneus. 

 felDA 1! EDERACEA A. Gray. 



Genus LAV ATlWliA Linnaeus. 



Gen (is JII15LSCUS Linnuens. 



HIBISCUS DENUDATUS Benth. 

 HORSFORDIA NEWBERRYI A. Gray. 

 HORSFORDIA PALMERI S. Watson. 



Touirnefort. 



STERCULIACEAE. 



Genus FREMOKTIA Torrey. 



F. c AL I P'U RN I ca T orrey 

 Fn-montodendron californicum Cv 4:74. 



AYENIA PUSILLA Linn. 

 LINACEAE. 



Genusi LTNFM Linnaeus, 

 LINUM PERENE Linn. 



Z YG OPH YLL ACE AE. 



GeniiH TRIMULIJS Linnaeus. 



TRIBULUS GRANDIFLORUS B. & H. 



Genus AIHiTlLOX 



A K l T T I LO N A I - i LANTI ACU M S. Wats. 

 •'Woody at base, the herbaceous stems 

 t; -v ■ high, pubescent and somewhat vil- 

 lous: leaves densely soft-tomentose, vei- TRIBULUS MAXIMUS Linn. 



ty and whitish, round-cordate, acute, cJei.iis FAGONfA Limia 



tlifi round' d basal Lobes overlapping, un- 



,..,,., , , , FAGONIA CALIFORNICA Benth. 



equally serrate, Vz-V-fc broad, shorter 



thai ■ petioles: fl. axillary and solitary, Genus LAIMUEA. Car. 



on villous-pubsecent pedicels, which are LARREA MEXICANA Moric. 



