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58 BOTANY OF THE DEATH VALLEY EXPEDITION. 



Pceonia californica Nutt. in Torr. & Gr. PL i. 41 (1838). Type locality, "mar- 

 gins of bushy plains, and in the valleys of the mountains, in the vicinity [of] St. 

 Barbara, Upper California." 



San Bernardino Valley (Nos. 112,120). 



CALYCANTHACE5I. 



Butneria occidentalis (Hook. & Arn.) Bot. Beech. 340(1840-41), under Calycanfhus; 

 Greene, Erythea, i. 207 (1893). Type locality not given. The plant was lirst collected, 

 probably in California, by Douglas. 



Along the Kaweah River (No. 1305). 



BERBERIDACEiB. 



Berberis fremontii Torr. Bot. Mcx. Bound, ii. 30 (1859). Type locality, as taken 

 from Fremont's plant, " »n the tributaries of the Rio Virgen, in southern Utah." 



Found by the writer near Mountain Springs, Charleston Mountains (No. 376), and 

 by Dr. Merriam in the Pahranagat Mountains, at Hungry Hill Summit, and in the 

 Beaverdam Mountains and Santa Clara Valley, The last two stations are in Utah, 

 the others in Nevada. The first two represent about the western limit of species in 

 this region. 



NYMPH-53ACE.SI. 



Brasenia purpurea (Mx.) FL L 324 (1803), under RydropeWs; Casp. in Enfler 

 &Prantl, Nat. PH. iii. abt. 2. 6 (1888). Type locality, "in aquis tranquillis Caro- 

 lina; inferioris et Provincial Teiinassee." This is the Brasenia peitata of Pursh. 



In one of the Kern River Lakes, Sierra Nevada (No. 1726). The name Menyanthes 

 nymphoides was used for this plant in the year 1784 by Thunberg, Flora Japonica, p. 

 82, but merely because he considered it the same as the Menyanthes nymphoides of 

 Linnams, which is a Limnanthemum. The specific name nymphoides can not there- 

 fore be retained, since it was applied to Brasenia only by reason of a mis-identifica- 

 tion. The name Menyanthes peitata does not occur in Thnnberg's Flora Japonica. 



PAPAVERACE^J. 



Platystemon californicus Benth. Trans. Hort. Soc. Lonil. ser. 2. i. 405 (1835). 

 Type locality Calif ornian. 

 Tejou Mountains (No. 1193). 



Arctomecon californicum Torr. & From, in Frem. Second Rep. 312 (1845). Type 

 locality "in only a single station in the California^ mountains, on the banks of a 

 creek." 



This is not the plant described as Arctomecon californicum in the Botany of Cali- 

 fornia, which is A. humile. 1 The true characters of A. californicum are given in the 

 diagnosis following the description of A. merriami. Arctomecon humile differs from 

 A. californicum in its smaller size throughout, capsnles about half as long, less hairy 

 leaves, fewer flower parts, white petals, dilated filaments, and the presence of a 

 style. A. californicum has not been collected since 1844, and the recorded type local- 

 ity (see above) is so general as to bo almost valueless. Fremont did not mention 

 the plant in his narrative, but by an interesting coincidence it is possible to name 

 -with probable certainty the place in which he found it. Mr. Vernon Bailey collected 

 our specimens May 1, 1891, on the road between Cottonwood Creek and Vegas 



l The plant collected in 1874 in the vicinity of St. George, Utah, by Dr. C. C. 

 Parry and redescribed by Dr. Gray in the Proceedings of the American Academy, 

 xii, 53 (1876), as A. californicum Torr., with a figure, has since been described by the 

 present writer as A. humile. See Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. vii. 67 (1892). 



