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SAN BERN ARBE: 40 miles from the 

 Galapagos. 



SAL SI PUEDAS: 3 small islands in 

 sight of two others, known as Las Ani- 

 mas and Raza, which together form an 

 archipelago very dangerous for their 

 impetuous currents. 



ANGEL DE LA GUARDA: a great is- 

 land 15 miles wide by 50 long. 



SANTA FELICIA: a rocky islet in the 

 bay of San Felipe" de Jesus. 



SAN EUGENIO: seven miles in .cir- 

 cumference. 



LAS REYS: at the mouth of the Colo- 

 rado river. 



TI BU RON : some 20 miles long, and 10 

 broad, on the Sonora coast, noted for 

 the tales of its cannibal Indians, the 

 Seri tribe. 



SAN PEDRO MARTYR: 25 miles south 

 of Tiburon. 



SAN MARCO: near Guaymas, Son. 



LOBOS: 50 miles south of Guaymas, 

 Son. 



These islands possess excellent harbors 

 and immense resources in minerals, fish- 

 eries, and pearl-oyster banks, 

 pronounced so differently the same idiom 

 as to seem to a stranger to use distinct 

 languages. Going south from the Colo- 

 rado river, on the overflowed lands were 

 the Cocopahs, the southern gulf branch- 

 es of which Consay (1746) called Bagio- 

 pahs, Hebonumas, Quigyumas, Cuculutes 

 and Alchedumas. 



The Indians around the missions Of 

 Santa Catalina, San Pedro Martyr, San 

 Miguel, Santa Tomas, and Diego (1« 

 Alta California), are described^ as nearly 

 pure Yumas, but received various tribui 

 names, like Gueymuras, and Gimiels, the 

 leas (at Santo Tomas and San Vicente), 

 the Uchitas (from San Vicente to San 

 Fernando), the Vintacottas and Vili- 

 catas, are races now nearly or quite ex 

 tinguished. 



Between San Fernando and Moleje 

 were the Limonies, divided into the 

 Cagnaguets, Adacs, and Kadakamas, as 

 one proceeded south. 



From Moleje to Loreto were the purer 

 Cochiemies, or Guaicuris, or Vicuras, 

 whom the Jesuits asserted were of the 

 same language as the Limonies. From 

 Loretto to Magdalena bay were the 

 Monquies and Edues, and beyond to the 

 Cape, the Pericues and Coras. 



Father Copart, who was with Kino, in 

 1697, at the time of Admiral Otondo's 

 expedition, reduced the language to 

 writing, preparing a catechism. Father 

 Begert, in 1767, prepared a meagre 

 grammatical analysis and religious ex- 

 planation, on the Cochiemies or Waicura, 

 some three or four pages (see Charles 

 Rau, in Smithsonian Institution, report, 

 1864). 



The Cochiemies and Pericues are said 

 to be totally extinct. 



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FLORA OF BAJA CALIFORNIA. 



ATAMISQUEA EMARGINATA. Miers. 

 Br 2:128, "Specimens of this ill-smelling 



bush have also been collected from neigh- 

 boring regions by Mr. Pringle and Dr. 

 Palmer. It is undoubtedly this species, 

 but the structure of the fl shows so much 

 variation from the type described and 

 figured in Linn tr 21:ltl, that a somewhat 

 detailed description is rendered necessary. 

 The 2 outer larger valvate sep .entirely 

 cover the 2 inner alt somewhat bbovate 

 ones that differ from the' figure in being 

 much sh'er and having a different form, 

 but are of a similar color to the outer 

 ones, and with them decid. Opp to the 

 sep are 4 tooth-like processes, alternating 

 with the 4 pet and apparently in the 

 same whorl; the 2 upper pet are some- 

 what longer than the lower. The irregu- 

 larity of the fl is apparently caused by 

 the elongating stipe of ova developing to 

 lower side, lifting and passing beneath 

 the inferior tooth-like process that em- 

 braces it as an oblique ring: this tooth 

 longer than the upper and 4 times longer 

 than the lateral ones, becoming also su- 

 perior. Sta 6, gradually tapering, from a 

 somewhat bulbous base, not abruptly as 

 in the figure, and in the num fls exam- 

 ined, no trace of staminodia has been 

 found. The pet are all curved to the up- 

 per side. San Gregorio." 

 HELIANTHEMUM NUTANS... Br. 



"Densely and minutely stellate pubes- 

 cent thruout: sts woody, much branched, 

 about 9 i hi: lvs linear, obtuse, slightly 

 tapering to base, 5-7 mm lg, 1 mm wide: 

 pedicels solitary from opp to the arils of 

 the upper alt lvs, recurved, 14 mm lg, 

 jointed near base: inner sep 6 mm lg, 

 ovate, acute, the outer linear, half as lg: 

 pet slightly exceeding sep, broadly cu- 

 neate, acute: sta about 20: sds covered 

 with w strap-shaped papillae. The lower 

 portion of the sm bushes is covered with 

 fascicles of axillary lvs, that persist after 

 the primary ones have fallen, and give to 

 the plants an ericoid appearance. Very 

 abundant in rocky soil about the plains 

 of San Julian, Baja." — Br 2:129. 

 POLYGALA DESERTORUM. Br. 



Br 2:130, "Sts erect, branched from a 

 somewhat woody base, slightly pubescent, 

 1 ft hi: lvs linear-lanceolate, 18 mm lg, 

 tapering to base, becoming bract-like 

 above: fls upon pedicels 2-4 mm lg, soon 

 reflexed: sep glab, a*ll p, outer round, sac- 

 cate at base, 4 mm lg, lateral oblg, mu- 

 cronate, 5 mm lg: upper pet pubescent 

 near the base, nearly as lg as keel, con- 

 nected nearly half their length; keel 

 rugose-thickened, y; crest recurved, 

 prominent; sty tortuous, recurved, hollow, 

 somewhat 2 lobed; ova stipitate: cap ellip- 

 tical, emarginate: sd densely hairy, the sh 

 caruncle with 2 sm wings not % the 

 length of sd. Growing upon the plain 

 r.ear Agua Dulce. Its persistent p sep 

 make this a handsome species." 



POLYGALA APOPETALA. Br. 



Br 2:130t 3, "Frutescent, 2-3 ft hi, with 

 straight, slender, grayish -pubescent 

 branches: lvs lanceolate, entire, obtuse 

 attenuate to a sh petiole, alt, remote 

 nearly glab: fls large, pink, on slender 

 pedicels y 2 in or more lg: sep 4,. upper 



