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Colorado River, c. 300 ft. Near Riverside Mts. ---------- No. 5237. Palafoxia linearis Comp. with funnelform whitish corollas and long-exserted pink styles. No. 5238. Krameria canescens Gray. [= K. grayi] Intricately and densely branched thorny shrub, 2 1/4 ft. h. more intricate and dense than any shrub hitherto met with. Fls. purple, lower lobe calyx largest, lateral curving upward at tip, 2 upper approximate, all reflexed-recurving! Ovary with 2 lateral horizontally flattened crenate-toothed glands._ Stamens 4, all above ovary on one side the flower, in 2 unequal pairs, parallel with the style which curves upward. Glands_ all over pappillose. Above ---------- _ = lower petals
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= Riverside Co. 28 Oct. 1912 ---------- stamens and horizontally spreading are 3 sterile yellowish filaments with dilated purple tips = petals of upper set. No. 5239. Parkinsonia torreyana (Cercidium torreyanum Sarg.) [= Cercidium floridum Benth.] Tree 18 ft. h., 3 ft. circ. at ground, 2 ft. 10 in. at 2 ft. above ground. Mesa. Leaves with 2 pinnae; pinnae with 2 or 3 pairs of leaflets; leaflets elliptic or obovate. No. 5240. Lycium_ andersonii Gray. 4 to 5 ft. h. Berries gathered for food by squaws in June in Palo Verde Valley says Rennie. In Wash. Berries said by whites to be good. No. 5241. Grass. [= Hilaria] Pleuraphis rigida. Wash No. 5242. Comp. Porophyllum gracile Benth acc. SBP in litt. 3/28/13. Wash. 1 1/2 ft. h. ---------- _ Corolla tubular-funnelform, either 5 or 4-merous, even on same branchlet, !!! Stamens with anthers maturing and elongating unequally, inserted half-way down_ on tube, their bases _ about middle
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