170 Sierra Nevada Plants in Coast Range. [ZOE 
drifts at the date of the earlier visit, while at the later one the 
sheep had nearly finished all that were to their taste. No one 
lives on the upper part of the mountain, but there are remains of 
old cabins at the summit meadows, where the shepherd pitches 
his tent for the late summer when the flocks are driven up from 
the lower slopes. In the clear cold streams which run down its 
gorges to join the south fork of the Eel River, trout abound and 
deer are a common sight, and venison is familiar food to the 
visitor. : 
The landscape forcibly reminds of the Sierra Nevada. The 
small lakes and boggy meadows are bordered by Veratrum and 
alpine asters, and spangled with white violets and the primrose 
mimulus all hoary with dew-entangled hairs. The upper slopes 
and dry valleys are covered with forests of white cedar, fir and 
‘‘Jeffrey’s pine,” surrounded by thickets of the bitter cherry 
(Prunus emarginata) and the ‘‘snowbush’’ (Ceanothus cordu- 
latus), while the peaks and ridges and the dry uplands of the 
meadows are brightened by the scarlet Gilia aggregata, the 
well-known ‘“‘ pussy’s paws” (Spraguea umbellata), the brilliant 
yellow Eriogonum umbellatum, the broad tufts of purple and 
white £. ovalifolium, and the fluffy rose-colored balls of the 
most beautiful of all the species, Z. Lodébiz. 
A few additions to the coast flora were made by Mr. Brande- 
gee in a visit of a single day, late in September, to the Yolo 
Bolo.* The mountain had been at that date so ravaged by 
sheep, that no food whatever remained for the horses, and the 
trip was brought to an untimely conclusion. 
Mr. C. F. Leithold, a student of the Stanford University, 
made in June of the present year a collection of the plants of 
Cobb Mountain, in Lake County, a few miles north of Mt. St. 
Helena. Its flora is almost the same as that of the neighboring 
mountain, but Aédzes concolor is found upon it. 
The general level of Lake County is of considerable alti- 
tude, Clear Lake which occupies its centre being about 1500 feet, 
So that the elevation of the mountains above the level of the sea 
1s a good deal greater than their apparent height. Bartlett 
* Called on the maps “ Yallo Ballo,” but pronounced as above by the 
people of the vicinity. 
