Leaves ovate-lanceolate; stamens and styles long exserted; cap- 
sule pedicellate Arizonica 11 
Leaves lanceolate, acuminate; stamens included; capsule tapering 
at each end, long-pedicellate. Pringlei 12 
1. ZAUSCHNERIA CALIFORNICA Presl. Rel. Haenk ii:28, t LII. 
1831. 
Decumbent or ascending, tomentose or frequently softly villous; leaves 
narrowly lanceolate to linear-oblong, usually less than 2 cm. (rarely 3 
cm.) long, 2 to 4 mm. wide, entire or obscurely and remotely denticulate, 
mucronate, tomentose and more or less hirsute, fascicled in the axils; 
calyx-tube 18-22 mm. long, constricted above the somewhat globose base, 
usually narrowly funnelform, somewhat villous or rarerly glabrous; 
sepals 8-10 mm. long; petals somewhat exceeding the sepals; stamens well 
exserted; style exserted 10-15 mm.; ovary soft-villous to short-hispid, 
rarily glabrate, not at all glandular; capsule 20-25 mm. long, more or 
Je.ss hispid, distinctly pedicelled, attenuate to a beak. 
The above description was drawn from a suite of specimens, special 
attention being given to A. D. E. Elmer No. 3391, from Tassajara Hot 
Springs, Monterey County, June, 1901, and A. D. E. Elmer No. 4039, 
from Carmel Bay, Monterey County Sept., 1902, since the original plant 
from which the genus was first described seems to have come from this 
region. Greene expresses the opinion (Pitt. i:27) that the typical Z. 
Californica of Presl is the plant named var. microphylla by Dr. Gray in 
herb. At my request Dr. Abrams, while at Cambridge last summer, 
looked up Gray's type and wrote me as follows. "Brewer's No. 38, 1860- 
62, Los Angeles, is labeled in Dr. Gray's handwriting 'Z. californica var. 
? microphylla.' This plant is the common linear-leaved plant of the 
Los Angeles region. * * * Mounted on the same sheet is a very similar 
specimen collected by Fremont, Sept. 13, 1846. This has no locality but 
is labeled 'Zauschneria n. sp.' It came from the Torrey Herbarium and 
I suspect the writing is Torrey's. A third 1 specimen on the sheet was 
collected by Torrey 93a, 1865 in Santa Barbara Co. This is not named. 
It is evident that Brewer's plant must be consiJered the type." Since 
the original Z. Californica is said to have come from near Monterey I 
am inclined to disagree with Greene's opinion, although in a former 
paper (Bull. So .Cal. Acad. Sci. xv:47-54. 1916) I accepted his position, 
the more so because Presl's plate represents a plant very much more 
like Z. villosa Greene. 
Specimens Examined 
Tassajara Hot Springs, Monterey Co., June, 1901, A. D. E. Elmer 
3391 (DH); Carmel Bay, Monterey Co., Sept., 1902, A. D. E. Elmer 4039 
(UC); Monterey Co., 1897, A. L. Bolton (UC); Berkeley, Sept., 
1891, Edw. L. Greene (UC) ; Gavilan Mts., July 5, 1861, Guirado 755 (UC); 
San Diego Co., Oct., 1897, Mary F. Reynolds (UC) ; Oak Knoll, Los An- 
geles Co., Oct., 1902; Ernest Braunton 727 (UC) ; Lake Temescal, Ala- 
meda Co., Aug., 1891, F. T. Bioletti (UC) ; Yountville, Oct., 1895, Capt. 
F. L. Clark (UC) ; Suisun Marshes, Seot. 25, 1897, J. Burtt Davy 4098 
(UC); Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 12, 1915, Geo. L. Moxley 452 (UC, GLM); 
Los Angeles, Nov., 1901, Miss E. D. Palmer (UC) ; Stanley's, Santa 
Clara Co., Sept., 1893, J. Burtt Davy 269 (UC) ; Tolemas Springs, Solano 
Co., Aug., 1891, W. L. Jepson (UC); Summit of Mt. Hamilton, July 29, 
1899, Harley P. Chandler (UC) ; San Tuan Grades, Monterey Co., Aug. 
25, 1916, Abrams 6308 (DH); Coast trail above Water's, Santa Lucia 
Mts., Aug. 6, 1903, W. R. Dudley (DH); Pecho Valley, San Luis Obispo 
Co., Dec. 30, 1893, W. R. Dudley (DH) ; Mt. Diablo, Contra Costa Co., 
Oct. 8, 1910, Abrams 4338 (DH); San Jose Canyon, Monterey Peninsula. 
Dec. 28, 1909, Josephine D. Randall (DH); Santa Cruz Peninsula, Santa 
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