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BOTANY. 
Micromeria Douglasu, Benth , in DC. Prodr. 12, p. 223. Salinas valley, California; 
November. 
Salvia carduacea, Benth. Lab. p. 302. S. Gossypina, Benth. PI. Hartw. p. 330. Los 
Angeles ; March. 
Salvia Columbariae, Benth. 1. c. With the last. Commonly not more than a foot high, hut 
often smaller and sometimes much larger. All the specimens have annual roots. 
Audibertia polystachya, Benth. Lab.p. 414, and in DC. Prodr. 12, p. 360. San Luis Rey 
and San Diego ; April. Stem nearly four feet high, simple, the upper half of the plant bear¬ 
ing opposite spikes, which are about two inches in length. Lower leaves two and a half 
inches long and an inch wide, conspicuously petioled. The whole plant is canescent. 
Audibertia stachyoides, Benth. 1. c. Santa Clara and San Diego ; April. A branching 
shrub, with the foliage resembling that of the common garden sage. 
Amsinckia spectabilis, Fisch. & Mey. Ind. Sort. Petrop. 1835. Los Angeles and Santa 
Clara valley ; March. A slender form of the plant was collected near Santa Barbara. 
Eritrichium fulvum, Alph. DC. Prodr. 10, p. 132. Santa Barbara, San Bernardino, and 
other places in California; April. 
Plagiobotrys canescens, Benth. PI. Hartw., p. 326. San Gabriel, &c.; April. A common 
Californian plant. The genus is hardly distinct from Eritrichium. 
I^ritriciiium Chorisianum, DC. 1. c. Myosotis Chorisiana, Cham, and Schlecht. Salinas 
valley; November. 
Heliotropium curassavicum, Linn.; DC. Prodr. 9, p. 539. On the Gila river; common; June. 
Nemophila parviflora, Benth. Linn. Trans. 7, p. 2*75. San Gabriel and Los Angeles; 
March. 
Nemophila insignis, Benth. 1. c. Santa Barbara ; also between Santa Clara and Los An¬ 
geles ; March. 
Nemophila aurita, Lindl. Bot. Beg. t. 1601 ; Alph. DC. Prodr. 9 , p. 290. Los Angeles; 
March. 
Phacelia (Eutoca) Parryi, Torr. in Bot. Mex. Bound, ined. San Isabel, California; May. 
This species connects Whitlavia with Phacelia, agreeing with the former in the scales at the 
base of tbe stamens, and with Phacelia (Eutoca) in the form of the corolla. 
Whitlavia grandiflora, Harv. in Hook. Bond. Jour. Bot. 5, p. 311, t. 11. San Bernardino 
and Kikal Mungo mountain ; March and April. Flowers varying from eight lines to an inch 
and a half in length. The cultivated plant is also variable. We think that W. minor, Harv. 
1. c. t. 12, is only a small form of W. grandiflora. 
Phacelia circinata, Jacq. Eel. 1, t. 91 ; Alph. DC. Prodr. 9, p. 299. San Gabriel, &c.; 
May. 
Phacelia tanacetifolia, Benth. in Linn. Trans. 17, p. 280. Santa Barbara to San Isabel; 
February, May. 
Erythryea floribunda, Benth. PI. Hartw., p. 322. Banks of the Salinas river ; November. 
Plant 5—7 inches high. This and the other species of the genus are known in California by 
the name of Canchalagua, a bitter tonic of considerable celebrity. 
Erythryea triachantha, Griseb. in DC. Prodr. 9, p. 60. On the Gila river, above the 
Pimas villages ; June. 
Convolvulus lobatus, Engelm. & Gray, PI. Lindh. 1, p. 44, ( adnot .) C. hastatus, Nutt, in 
Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. ( n, ser.) 5, p. 194 ; not of Thunb. Burro mountains ; August. 
