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Parish; San Diego, Cleveland; Lower Cal. ‘‘from San Enrique 
across the peninsula to San Quentin,’ Brandegee, 1. c. ii, 178. 
Pectocarya is represented in the United States by four species, 
two of them extending the whole range of the Pacific coast from the 
British to the Mexican boundary. The third, P. pusz//a, reaches 
from Washington to northern California, while the remaining one, 
P. linearis, inhabits the arid regions of southern California, Utah 
and Arizona. These two are found also in Chili. The Botany of 
California says, somewhat enigmatically, that they ‘‘inhabit the 
western coast of America, from Chili to California; perhaps diffused 
since the introduction of sheep and cattle.’”’ In which direction this 
diffusion is supposed to have occurred is not stated. In the Synop- 
tical Flora and in the appended enumeration both are regarded as 
native. The same disposition is also made of Plagiobothrys rufes- 
cens, although this is said in the text to be ‘‘perchance introduced 
from Chili.”* 
Lastarriga Chilensis occurs in North America, from Antioch, in 
central California,t to Ascension on the Peninsula.t In 1871, Dr. 
Watson confidently pronounces it a ‘‘Chilian species, introduced 
into California.”§ Ten years later he says more hesitatingly, “‘Per- 
haps introduced from Chili to California by sheep and cattle.”’||_ Dr. 
Parry, who made a special study of the Eriogonez, and had the 
advantage of long and wide field observation, says that it is ‘‘ prob- 
ably native to both Chili and California,’’] and at a later date calls 
it, with greater positiveness, ‘‘a native of the Pacific Coast of North 
and South America.” ** : 
It will be seen from this brief review that doubts respecting the 
indigenous character of these plants have usually been expressed 
with hesitation, and often abandoned upon fuller knowledge. They 
seem to have been selected rather arbitrarily from among their fel- 
lows whose claims to Californian nativity are undisputed. Some, 
‘but not all, are provided with arrangements whereby their seeds 
may be easily carried in the pelage of domestic animals, and this 
possibility has suggested the doubts which have been expressed re-_ 
/*Syn: Fl. 25%, 431% . ||Bot. Cal. ii, 39. ae 
tParry, Proc. Davenp. Acad. iv, 63. ‘JProc. Davenp. Acad. 1. c. 
tBrandegee, Proc. Cal. Acad., 2d ser., ii, 20g. ** ib. v, 36. 
_— $Bot. King, 477. ae 
