208 Naturalized Plants. [ ZOE 
In 1880 he was of the opinion that ‘‘ Microcala has probably been 
introduced into California from South America,’* but in 1886 he 
enumerates it as a native species. 
Specularia biflora is said to grow ‘‘near towns and. settlements 
near the coast; perhaps introduced from South America.’’{ In 
fact this plant is a shy inhabitant of damp and shady places in the 
hills, secluded in habit and not enduring tillage. The Synoptical 
Flora unquestioningly sets it down as native, and later it is so given 
in the enumeration. In the Flora of Guadalupe Island, Watson 
speaks of it as “ possibly introduced from Chili; perhaps indigenous 
to both countries.”§ Other botanists, without exception, I think, 
have regarded it as a native plant, an opinion in which field observ- 
ers will certainly concur. 
At the publication of the Botany of California Amdblyopappus pus- 
illus was known in North America only from “about San Diego, 
and on the Island of Guadalupe,” and it is there suggested that it 
had been introduced from Chili. Its presence on that lone island 
had seemed to Dr. Watson to “rather favor the belief that it is a na- 
tive of the west coast’’ of the United States,|| but did not prevent 
him from counting it among the introduced plants. Dr. Gray gives 
its range in the Synoptical Flora as ‘‘San Diego and southward,’ 
and records it as a native both in the text and in the enumeration. 
Prof. Greene has expressed the same opinion. That it is so can 
hardly be doubted in view of the number and character of the sta- 
tions at which it has been recently collected. These greatly extend. 
its range, which is now known to include most of the coast islands 
from San Miguel to Cerros, and the littoral region from Monterey 
southward to San Enrique on the Peninsula. 
_ The following are the known stations: San Miguel, Greene, Pitt. 
1, 00; Santa Rosa, Brandegee, Proc. Cal. Acad., 2d ser. i, 213; 
Santa Cruz, Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. ii, 404; Anacapa, Yates, 9th 
Rep. Cal. State Miner. 184; Santa Catalina, Lyons, Bot. Gaz. xi, 
334; Guadalupe, Palmer, Proc. Am. Acad. xi, 113, Greene, Bull. 
Cal. Acad, i, 224; San Benito, Palmer, Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. i, 
21; ichtasuct eairy; Bot. Mex. Bound. 96; San Luis Rey, W. F. 
*Veget. Rocky Mts., 1 40. | - §Proc. Am. 'Acad., XI, aca 
_+Syn. FL, 2, 5 a i Wek: 413. 
_TBot. Cal7§, 446. woe Ha 
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