



CATALOGUE OF SPECIES. 149 



Apocynum androsaemifolium L. Sp. PI. i. 213 (1753). Type locality, "in Vir- 

 ginia, Canada." 



Near Mineral King, Sierra Nevada {No. 1442). In the place cited above, the spe- 

 cific name of this plant was given "fol. androacemi," but in a subsequent edition of 

 the Species Plantarum the name was written as ordinarily quoted. 



Apocynum caunabin urn L. Sp. PI. i. 213 (1753). Type locality, "in Canada, 

 Virginia." 



The Indian hemp was seen about the Eagle Borax Works, Death Valley; in Cot- 

 tonwood Canon, Panumint Mountains (No. 072); at Winters's ranch, Pahrump Val- 

 ley, Nevada; and at Ash Meadows. It confines itself to marshes, at Ash Meadows 

 and Winters's ranch growing in great abundance. It is often used by the Indians as 

 a fiber for making cords and nets. 



ASCLEPIADACEiE. 



Philibertia linearis hirtella Gray, Bot. Cal. i. 478 (1876), as Sarcosiemma hciero- 

 pJujUnm hirtellum; Gray, Syn. Fl. ii. pt. i. 88 (1878). Type locality, "near Fort 

 Mohave," Arizona. 



Willow Creek Canon, Panamint Mountains (No. 817). 



G-omphocarpus cordifolius (Benth.) PI. Hartw. 323 (1810), under Accratcs; Gray, 

 Bot. Cal. i. 477 (1876). Type locality, "in valle Sacramento." 

 Near Trout Meadows, Sierra Nevada (No. 1730), in forests of Phiusjeffrcyi. 



G-omphocarpus tomentosus (Torr.) Bot. Mex. Bound. 160 (1850). Gray, Bot. 

 Cal. i. 477 (1876). Type localities, "mountains east of San Diego," and "Saulsabel," 

 both in southern California. 



Tejon Canon (No. 1227). 



Asclepias eriocarpa Benth. PI. Hartw. 323 (1840). Type locality, "in collibus 

 siccis juxta pra-dinm Tularcitos in vicinibus Monterey," California. 



Seen only on the western slope of the Sierra Nevada at several points between Kern- 

 ville and Tehachapi (No. 1072). 



Asclepias erosa Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 162 (1850). Type locality, "valley of 

 the Gila river, near Metate." 



In Johnson Canon, Mill Creek Canon, and Willow Creek Canon, Panamint Moun- 

 tains; on the Darwin Mesa; between Walker Pass and Kemville; along Caliente 

 Creek; between Caliente and Tehachapi; in Antelope Valley, Mohave Desert; on 

 the higher parts of the Tulare Plains, near Tcjou Ranch; and in the washes near 

 Poso stage station. The species occurs most abundantly in the clay soil of the 

 western foothills of the Sierra Nevada and apparently only sparingly in the desert. 



Asclepias mexicana Cav. Ic. PL i. 42 (1701). Type locality, " propo Mexico." 

 This common Californian milkweed was recorded in but two localities east of the 

 Sierra Nevada: in Johnson Canon, Panamint Mountains; and near Indian Wells on 

 the stage roail from Mohave to Keeler (No. 1010). At both places it grew in moist 

 soil. On tin 1 west side of the Sierra Nevada it was of frequent occurrence. 



Asclepias speciosa Torr. Ann. Lyc.N. Y. ii. 218 (1828). Type locality, "on the 

 Canadian [River]." 

 At Watkins's ranch, Ash Meadows (No. 340), and near Lone Pine (No. 808). 



LOGANIACB^!. 



Buddleia utahensis Coville, 1'roc. Biol. Soc. Wash. vii. 69 (1802). Type locality 

 as given below. Plate XII. 



"Shrub 20 to 30cm. high, young branches, leaves, and calyces densely tomentose; 

 leaves linear to narrowly linear-oblong, irregularly crenate, with undulate revolute 





