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CATALOGUE OF SPECIES. 147 



In the yellow and black pine forests of the Sierra Nevada (Nos. 130r>, 1843,2101). 

 A careful examination of the underground portion of this plant showed that it has 

 no connection with the roots of any other plant, and that it is undoubtedly a sapro- 

 phyte. Its underground parts form an interlocking brittle mass often 10 to 12 centi- 

 meters in diameter. 



Allotropa virgata Torr. & Gr. in Gray, Pac. R. Rep. vi. pt. iii. 80 (1857). Type 

 locality, "on the Cascade Mountains of northern Oregon." 



Near Mineral King, Sierra Nevada (No. 1516). In the reference cited above, the 

 species is named, without description, us the oniy one belonging to the genus, and 

 a diagnosis of the genus is given on the following page. 



Pleuricospora fimbriolata Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. vii. 369 (1868). Type 

 locality, "in or near the Mariposa Sequoia gigantea Grove/' California. 



Valley of the Kaweah River (No. 1363). This is the southernmost known station 

 of this exceedingly rare plant. In our specimens the petals are one-third longer 

 than the sepals, and the scales on the stem overlap only at its base. 



LENNOACE.3E3. 



Fholisma arenarium Nutt. in Hook. Ic. PL vii. t. 626 (1841). Type localities, 

 "Monterey and St. Diego, California." 



Between Indian Wells and Haway Meadows (No. 811), and on the eastern slope 

 of Walker Pass (Nos. 1016, 2046). 



PLUMBAGINACE.5!. 



Statice limonium californica (Botes.) in DC. Prodr. xii. 643 (1848), as 8. califor- 

 nica; Gray, Bot. Cal. i. 466 (1876). Type locality, "in California ad San Francisco, 

 ad Santa Clara." 



This plant, the sea lavender, was seen only in the marshes in the upper part of 

 the Vegas Wash, Nevada, where it occurred abundantly. 



PRIMULACEiE. 



Primula suffrutescens Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. vii. 371 (1868). Type locality, 

 ''Sierra Nevada, ou Silver Mountain, alt. 10,500, near the snow." 

 Above timber-line on the mountains north of Whitney Meadows (No. 1663). 



Dodecatheon jeffreyi Moore in Van Houtte. Fl. des Serres, xvi. 99 (1867). 

 Description based on specimens cultivated at Dublin, from Rocky Mountain seed. 



In the high Sierra Nevada, (Nos. 1458, 2124), and in the White Mountains (No. 

 1812). 



OLEACE^J. 



Menodora spinescens Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. vii. 388 (1868). Type locality, 

 "canons and hillsides, southeastern part of the State of Nevada." 



This plant, reported heretofore only from the type locality and from the 

 Providence Mountains, San Bernardino County, California, is of frequent occur- 

 rence in the Death Valley region. It was found on the north slope of Lone Wil- 

 low Peak; on the western foot-slopes of the Charleston Mountains, both along the 

 road to Clark's sawmill and near Yount's ranch; in Vegas Valley, east of Cotton- 

 wood Springs, and north of Corn Creek; ou the summit and both slopes of the divide 

 northwest of Towner's; on the divide between Ash Meadows and Pahrump; between 

 Ash Meadows and Furnace Creek (No. 458) ; and between Keeler and Crystal Spring. 

 It is a Iow,*intncately branched shrub, commonly from 15 to 30, rarely 70 or 80, cm. 



