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Blythe, Cal. Palo Verde Valley ---------- Mountains. The nearest springs to my well are McCoy Springs (10 miles) and Springs (6 miles)." -- Hopkins, at Blythe, of the firm of Carrigan and Hopkins. No. 5258. Teucrium cubense L. var. densum Jepson Blythe. Overflow flats. Stems many from the root-crown, ascending at base, erect above. Three diverging acute lobes to lower lip of corolla, the middle largest; the upper lip very deeply cleft, the lobes occupying a lateral position and looking as if part of the lower lip. The lower lip then looks like a downwardly spreading pinnately lobed structure. Corolla light blue. Ovary green; anthers 1-celled. See p. 148 at bottom.
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c. 270 ft. Riverside Co. 31 Oct. 1912 ---------- No. 5259. Nama hispidum Gray var. acc. SBP. Corolla narrowly campanulate, rose-purple, ("magenta" says Rennie), Blythe, overflow flats. Colonizers. _cf. Parish in litt. Mar. 28, 1913. - Cereus giganteus cont. from p. 106. These figures are, probably, worth setting down only as indicating the profound impression these giants of the cactus world make upon a man who has a native sense of the interests attaching to the plant world. - Palo Verde. Cont. from p. 105. I showed Baggs Parkinsonia torreyana_ and microphylla__ and these correspond to his female & male trees" respectively, the "male" being the more ragged and less leafy tree. _ Fl. Apr. acc. Sargent __ May-June acc Sarg.
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