GOLDMAN——-PLANT RECORDS OF LOWER CALIFORNIA, 817 
BROMELIACEAE. Pineapple Family. 
Hechtia montana T. 8. Brandeg. 
First noted by us at about 450 meters altitude on a mountain’5 or 6 miles south- 
west of El Potrero, where a fruiting specimen was taken October 31. It was after- 
wards seen at intervals along our route and was most abundant in places on the 
basal slopes of the Victoria Mountains in the Cape District south of La Paz. 
DRACAENACEAE. Yucca Family. 
Hesperoyucca whipplei (Torr.) Baker. WHIPPLE YUCCA. 
This Yucca is common on open slopes above about 1,440 meters altitude in the 
Sierra del Pinal. A few were found in flower and a specimen taken June 7, at about 
1,680 meters on the west slope just below the summit of one of the higher peaks near 
Laguna Hanson. 
Fruiting specimens of Hesperoyucca from Jaraguéy, 58 miles southeast of San 
Fernando, are doubtfully referred to this species by Trelease. In a letter he states 
that the leaves are broader than usual, with watered-silk marking, and that the speci- 
meng extend the known range of the genus southward from the northern part of the 
Peninsula. As they represent a species 2.5 to 3.5 meters high growing abundantly in 
an extremely arid, Lower Sonoran desert region (the character of country avoided 
by whipplei farther north), their identity with the present species would seem well 
questioned. A Hesperoyucca occurs also on the desert near San Fernando. 
Nolina beldingi T. 8. Brandeg. BEARGRASS. PLATE 108. 
Abundant in many places in the oak forest from about 1,300 meters altitude to the 
summit of the Sierra de la Laguna.! It is a large, conspicuous, branching species, 
attaining a height of 7.5 meters. At the time of our visit most of the ripe seeds had 
fallen, but a specimen retaining a few was taken at La Laguna, January 27. 
Nolina palmeri 8. Wats. BEARGRASS. 
The genus Nolina was noted in only a few places along our route. Nolina palmeri 
was abundant at about 900 meters in the canyon leading from San Matias Spring 
down into San Matias Pass, and above 840 meters along the open bottom and sides of 
Windy Canyon on the east slope of the San Pedro Martir Mountains. It grew to a 
height of 3 to 3.5 meters. A specimen in flower was taken near San Matias Pass, 
June 28. Trelease ? gives the type locality of this species as Tantillas Mountains 
and assigns it a range overlapping those of N. bigelovii and N. beldingi deserticola. 
Nolina bigelovii 8S. Wats. BEARGRASS. PLATE 109. 
This species was noted at about 540 meters elevation on a rocky mesa near Jara- 
gudy, 58 miles southeast of San Fernando, where it was collected in fruit September 
9. Only a few plants were seen there growing among large bowlders. ‘The leaves 
are about 120 cm. long and the flower stalk 1.8 to 3 meters high. 
Yucca valida T. 8. Brandeg. TREE yucca. PLatTE 110, 
Yuccas were abundant at intervals along much of our route throughout the Penin- 
sula, except in the high mountains, but too few specimens were collected to throw 
much light on the number or distribution of species. Specimens taken at 600 meters 
near Yubay and at about the same elevation on the southern slope of the Victoria 
Mountains have been referred to this species by Trelease. The localities represented 
*See footnote, p. 314. 
?'The Desert Group Nolineae. Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. 50: 420, 1911. 
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