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176 BOTANY OF THE DEATH VALLEY EXPEDITION. 



Lophanthus urticifolius Benth. Bot. Reg. xv. under t. 1282 (1829). Type lo- 

 cality, " tlie north-west coast of America." 

 Near Mineral King, Sierra Nevada (No. 1469). 



Salazaria mesicana Torr. Hot. Mex. Bound. 133 (1859). Type locality, » ravines, 

 Chihuahua, below Presidio del Norte, near the Rio Grande." 



The shrub was observed near Hesperia (No. 46); a few miles north of Daggett; 

 on the northeast slope of Lone Willow Peak; in the northern end of Resting Springs 

 Valley; in a canon of the Funeral Mountains, west of Amargosa; on the divide be- 

 tween Furnace Creek and Ash Meadows; between the latter point and I'ahrump 

 Valley; on the western and eastern foot-slopes of the Charleston Mountains; in 

 the northern part of Vegas Valley; between Towner's and Ash Meadows; in 

 Johnson, Surprise, Willow Creek, and Mill Creek (No. 756) canons, Panamint Moun- 

 tains; along the foot of the Inyo Mountains, near Swansea (No. 867); near Crystal 

 Spring, Coso Mountains; on the oast slope of Walker Pass; in Tehachapi Caftan, 

 and between Mohave and Willow Spring. The plant is characteristic of the higher 

 altitudes of the Lower Sonoran zone, seldom occurring below 600 meters, and reaching 

 a little higher than Larrea. Dr. Merrinm reported it from Gold Mountain, Muddy 

 Mountains, ami Oasis, Indian Spring, and Pahranagat valleys, Nevada, and the Santa 

 Clara Valley and Beaverdam Mountains, Utah. 



Scutellaria anguatifolia Pursh, Fl. 1L. 412 (1814). Type locality, "on the river 

 Kooskoosky," now the Clearwater, in Idaho. 

 Frazier Mountain (No. 1197). 



Prunella vulgaris L. 8p. PL ii. 600 (1753). Type locality European. 

 Yosemite Valley (No. 1849). The generic name is commonly spelled Brundla. 



Marrubium vulgare L. Sp. PL ii. 583 (1853). Type locality European. 



This plant, the horebound, is a common weed in southern intramontane California. 

 It approaches the desert at many points, but does not enter it, We observed it in 

 the San Bernardino Valley; at the summit and on the south slope of Cajon Pass; in 

 the western end of Antelope Valley; throughout the Tulare Plains; along the road 

 between Kernville, Caliente, and Tehachapi; and between Visalia and Three Rivers. 



Stachys albens Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. vii. 387 (1868). Type localities, "Fort 

 Tejon," "Ojai," "Pechecos Pass," and "Yosemite Valley," all in California. 



In the valley of the Kaweah River (No. 1342), in Owens River Valley (No. 1772), 

 and on the east slope of the Inyo Mountains (No. 1784). 



Trichostema lanceolatum Benth. Lab. 659 (1835). Type localities, "in Amer- 

 ica boreali-occidentali prope arcem Vancouver, in siccis ad fluvium Multnomah, et 

 in Nova California." 



Near Three Rivers (No. 1284). 



PLANTAGINACEiE. 



Plantago major L. Sp. PL i. 112 (1753). Type locality European. 



In Vegas Valley, Nevada (No. 390). The plant was evidently introduced. 



Plantago patagonica gnaphaloides (Nutt.) Gen. i. 100 (1818), as V. gnaphaloidea; 

 Gray, Pac R. Rep. iv. 117 (1857). Type locality, "on the summits of high and 

 gravelly hills; commencing to appear near the confluence of the river Janke and. 

 the Missouri." 



This plant was published 1 in another place in the same year as /'. punhii. It is 



7^""& s. Sy st. Veg. iii. 120 ( 1818) . 



