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fenuzs grows on the boundary line near Signal Mt., Gonolobus 
parvifolius comes from Ironwood Well; and 
CALYCOSERIS WRrRiGHTIIT Gray, var. Californica. Flowers 
white, becoming purplish in age; akenes moreslender, with longer 
beak and sharper angles than are those of the type as described 
by Dr. Gray. 
In sand, near San Felipe, growing with C. Parryi. The 
glands of the latter are black, but are pale in the variety and 
probably also in the type of C. Wrighitzz. 
NOTES AND NEW SPECIES OF LOWER CALIFORNIA 
PLANTS. 
BY T. S. BRANDEGEE. 
In 1902 I went to San José del Cabo to collect botanical speci- 
mens, and explored many localities of the Cape Region not visited 
by me during previous trips. Just before this trip there had been 
abundant rains and a severe drought of several years duration 
had come to anend. The severity of this drought can be realized 
by the fact that on Sierra El Taste I saw oak trees that must have 
been more than a hundred years old dead from its effects. The mid- 
dle elevations seemed to have suffered more from the lack of The 
usualrains than the lower, probably because their vegetation is not 
so accustomed to a small rainfall. At the time ofthis last visit the 
annuals were more luxuriant than I had ever before seen them, 
having grown rapidly from seed that must have lain dormant 
several years. The trees andbushes had not fully recovered from 
the long drought and many of them did not come into flower. 
Dr. C. A. Purpus in rtgo1 made a visit of several months to the 
Cape Region, collecting Cacti and as many plants as it was pos- 
sible to find during the existence of the drought. His collection 
was made at a different season of the year from that of my visits 
to the country, and consequently many interesting plants were 
added to the flora. The study of the collections has made it 
necessary to work over the material gathered in previous years, 
and previous mistakes have been corrected as much as possible. 
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