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high. Dr. Merrinm lias reported it also from Deep Spring Valley, California, and 

 from Fish Lake Valley, Gold Mountain, Oasis, Indian Spring, Timpaliute, andl'ahran- 

 agat valleys, Nevada. 



Fraxinus anomala Wats. Bot. King Surv. 283(1871)— Torr. in herb. Type locality, 

 " first discovered by Newberry on Macomb'e expedition in 1859 in Labyrinth Canon 

 on the Colorado River, Utah." 



This peculiar, simple-leafed ash has been collected heretofore only in southern 

 Utah and in southern Colorado. It was found by the expedition on tlie west slope 

 of the Charleston Mountains, both ou the road to Clark's sawmill (No. 379) and near 

 Mountain Springs, and on the eastern slope of the Beavenlam Mountains, Utah (No. 

 1948). 



Fraxinus coriacea Wats. Amer.Nat. vii.302 (1873). Type localities, "Ash Mead- 

 owe, Nevada, and Devil's Run Canon, Arizona." 



This ash appears not to have been reported from the State of California before, 

 but it is known in the Lower Sonoran region of soul liern It ah, southern Nevada, and 

 Arizona. It was collected along Cottonwood Creek, on the west shore of Owens 

 Lake (No. 998), and at Ash Meadows, Nevada (No. 2146), one of the type localities. 



Fraxinus dipetala Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech. 362 (1840-41). Type locality not 

 given. The original specimens were collected in California by Douglas. 

 Valley of Kaweah River (No. 1300). 



Fraxinus oregona Nutt. Sylv. iii. 59 (1812-53). Type locality, ''in the Oregon 

 territory." "We never saw it above the first falls of the Oregon." 

 With the last (No. 1303). 



Fraxinus pistacisefolia Torr. Pac. R. Rep., iv. 128 (1857). Typo locality, " rocky 

 ravines of Williams' River," northwestern Arizona. 



This species of the ash appears not to have been reported from California before. 

 It is certainly quite distinct from F. coriacea and, where we found it, grew among 

 the pifions in the Upper Sonoran zone. The type specimens also were collected in 

 the same zone, for Lieut. Whipple in his itinerary states 1 of their camp on Jan- 

 uary 3 1854, the day ou which the specimens were collected, " We now seem to bo 

 below the region of pines, and of the sweet-berried cedars. Red cedar is, however, 

 abundant- larger and finer than before seen. There are also numerous pifions with 

 esculent nuts, affording food for wild beasts as well as for Indians." 



Specimens were collected in Death Valley Canon, Panamiut Mountains (No. 

 2017). 



Adelia parvifolia (Gray) Proc. Amer. Acad. iv. 364 (1859), as Forcstiera acuminata 

 parvifolia. Type locality. " New Mexico; near Santa FeV' 



This is the Forcstiera neomexicana of (hay's Synoptical Flora. It is an interesting 

 shrub and was seen very r sparingly, first in Willow Creek Canon, Panamiut Mountains 

 (No. 829), at about the upper limit of Larrea, and afterwards on the west side of 

 Owens Lako (No. 1001) in the dry wash of a stream descending from the Sierra 

 Nevada; in Tehachapi Canon, near Cameron; and at Willow Spring in Antelope 

 Valley. These points are all either a little above or a little below the liue between 

 the Upper and Lower Sonoran zones. 



apocynace.se. 



Amsonla brevifolia Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad, xii, 64 (1877). Type locality, "S. 

 Utah and W. Arizona, to the border of California." 

 Willow Creek Canon, Panamiut Mountains (No. 825). 



iPac, R, Rep. iii. pt. i. 86 (1856). 



