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37_52 Vallecito, San Diego Co. c. 1100 ft. [Footnote: This is an approximation derived from p. 84, Mendenhall's Desert Watering Places in Cal.] No. 8549. Philibertia hirtella Parish. [=Sarcostemma hirtellum] Climbing a little. See p. 63. See also below. No. 8549a. Philibertia hirtella Parish. See. p. 63. The Advantages of Field Examination illustrated by no. 8549. Its flowers are structurally so different from P. heterophylla (Engelm.) Jepson that a proposal has been made to put it into a distinct genus. And yet these two were both regarded as varieties of one species in the Syn. Fl. The field examination of the flowers shows the great unlikeness of the two species--and yet lab. dissection had shown the same results. A generalization should be made from this and similar cases for use in the preface of the manual; and contrast with the case of ecologic variation as in Eschscholzia and seeming ecologic |
37_53 15 Apr. 1920. variation as in Godetia species where the multitudinous strains seem to breed true. No. 8550. Mohavea confertiflora Hel. Wash bed, in sand. Fls. so pale a cream color as to be almost white, and yet a distinct cream after all. The palate of the lower lip is very convex; up it runs a yellow nerve, at the end of the nerve is a purple splash which is situated on the sides of the palate, while the rib or nerve referred to runs up the middle of the summit. The upper leaves or bracts of the flowers properly are narrow-lanceolate, attenuate and very stiffly erect. The upper lip has a shower of purple dots in a well-defined center. Stems quite stocky. Stamens and style included, not extending beyond the closed palate. The cor. structure is, basically, a great deal like Antirrhinum. Cont. p. 67. No. 8551. Perityle emoryi Leaves palmately lobed; rays short, white. Wash, in sand. |
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