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tains and may extend far southward. It was rather common in the rocky and gravelly 
deposit where La Providencia Canyon opens on the desert at the east base of the high 
mountains and was taken in flower there June 26. A specimen in the U. 8. National 
Herbarium, also in flower, was collected at Santa Rosalfa Bay by A. W. Anthony, 
July-October, 1896. Mesosphaerum emoryi is a northern representative of a group 
mainly tropical in distribution. 
Mesosphaerum laniflorum (Benth.) Kuntze. 
This species is abundant at the lower elevations in the Cape District from La Paz 
southward. It was published in the Botany of the Voyage of the Sulphur from material 
taken at Cape San Lucas. Flowering specimens in the U. 8. National Herbarium 
were collected at the type locality by Xantus, between August, 1859, and January, 
1860; at La Paz by Palmer, January 20-February 5, 1890; at Todos Santos by Brande- 
gee, January 29, 1890; and at Las Animas by Purpus in 1901. 
Mesosphaerum palmeri (S. Wats.) Goldman. 
The range of this shrub includes the coast of southern Sonora and the Cape District 
of the Peninsula, It is common in the subtropical belt on the lower slopes of the 
Victoria Mountains, Flowering specimens were taken between Miraflores and Rancho 
San Bernardo, January 20, and at 750 meters altitude between La Laguna and El 
Paraiso, January 29. 
Monardella linoides A. Gray. 
This little undershrub, perhaps representing the subspecies stricta of Parish, was 
common in the open pine forest at 2,400 meters altitude in the Transition Zone of the 
San Pedro Martir Mountains, It was taken in flower at Vallecitos, July 15. 
Monardella macrantha A. Gray. 
A very small shrub or woody herb growing abundantly in the open. pine forest at 
2,400 meters altitude in the upper part of the Transition Zone in the San Pedro Martir 
Mountains. The large, handsome flowers were quite conspicuous near Vallecitos, 
where specimens were taken July 15. 
Ramona incana pachystachya (A. Gray) Heller. 
In many parts of the open pine forest in the San Pedro Martir Mountains this sage 
was the most common shrub. It was noted from about 1,500 meters on north slopes 
near El Pifién up to near the summit of the range, but was most abundant in the 
upper part of the Transition Zone. Flowering specimens were taken at El Pifidn, 
July 7, and at Rancho Santo Tomas, July 26. 
Ramona polystachya (Benth.) Greene. 
This sage was rather common along the basal slopes of hills bordering Trinidad 
Valley, where it was taken in flower, at about 780 meters, June 16. The species 
appears to belong to the Upper Sonoran Zone. 
Salvia californica T. S. Brandeg. 
This Salvia was described from Calmallf, where Brandegee collected it while on his 
overland journey from Magdalena Bay to San Quintin. We found it abundant at 
about 300 meters along canyons in the hills near San Pablo, not far to the southward 
of Calmallf. Itisashrub about a meter high, associated here with both Lower Sonoran 
and tropical or subtropical species. Flowering specimens were taken October 3. 
Salvia similis T. 8. Brandeg. 
A common shrub growing 1.8 to 3 meters high along small streams and in shaded 
canyons in the Upper Sonoran Zone on the upper slopes of the Sierra de Ja Laguna. 
It was taken in flower af 1,350 meters on the road from Rancho San Bernardo to El 
Satiz, January 21. This species is restricted, so far as known, to these mountains, 
