3o6 A New Nolina. 



thin and weak, bending outward and drooping as much as the mass 

 of persistent leaves below will allow. It probably blooms in July or 

 August. I have seen no fruiting specimens of small size, and it was 

 almost impossible to obtain fruit, until at last one tree was found 

 growing by the side of a large rock, the climbing of wliich enabled 

 me to get it. This was in the Sierra de la Laguna, where the spe- 

 cies is very abundant. The fruit was old at the time of my visit in 

 January of last year. Iri October I found it on the summits of the 

 San Francisquito Mountains, long past flowering, and failed in get- 

 ting fruiting specimens from a somewhat unexpected cause. Find- 

 ing a tree growing on a steep hillside by the side of a cliff in what 

 seemed a favorable situation for obtaining the fruit, I endeavored to 

 reach it, but on touching the tree a crowd of wasps came pouring 

 out of the great mass formed by the dead and adherent leaves of 

 former seasons. Of course I did not wait to verify the truth of the 

 reputation they bear among the Mexicans, which, freely translated, 

 IS that they are ' ' very brave litde animals. ' ' Afterward I found 

 that these wasps, so common in the peninsula and often attaching 

 their nests to cliffs where they hang pendent from one end, make 

 use of the Nolmas as well as the palms for a similar purpose, and it 

 IS difficult to find one not infested. 



In the central part of the peninsula last year I saw a few trees of 

 an aborescent Nolina growing near the head of a canon, and lower 

 down found what was evidently the same species, growing in the 

 usual manner of the genus-that is, with simple caudex. terminated 

 by a crown of leaves. These specimens belonged probably (they 



Nolina 



distinction, the caudex of any of the taller species being capable 

 of becoming arborescent and branching. 



N. Bigelovii and A^. 



Kq a\ *• 4- r t ^ -"^- ^ u-ffji, uui seems lo 



feM xf . ""''■ '^ ' -derstand them growing in the 



fl!^;.7t '■"■' "','•"" '' «'™ •" compliment to Mr. L Belding. 



n itho o!f ", " T '•■ "''° ™^ ""= «-' '» "oti^c " i" h- "- 



nithological expedition to the Sierra d^ 1o T i 



ntrr. nnri ,..K ,. "^^erra de Ja Laguna, several years 



