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LAMPSANA coMMUNIS L. ‘This Composite was collected on the 
road from Glen Blair to Ten Mile River. It has probably been 
introduced, as it has also been collected at Santa Barbara. There 
is a specimen in the Herbarium of the Academy from the latter 
place. collected by Dr. Stearns. 
RIBES LACUSTRE Poir. This was also collected in Little Val- 
ley. It is identical with the species of the Atlantic Coast and is 
quite unlike the variety molle Gray of the Sierra Neaada. 
Rosa NuTKANA Presl. This is the common rose in Little 
Valley and is the largest flowered species of California. It has 
been collected also by H. E. Brown, on the north side of Mount 
Shasta, being No. 349 of his collection. 
These are all represented in the Herbarium of the California 
Academy of Sciences, the specimens from Mendocino County 
having been presented by Mrs. McCallum. 
CNICUS GIGANTEUS Willd., in Santa Cruz County, California. 
This thistle is a native of the Southern Mediterranean region. 
There is a specimen in the Herbarium of the California Academy 
of Sciences, collected by Dr. Dukerly in the Province of Con- 
stantine, Algiers. The plant from Santa Cruz County was dis- 
covered by the Honorable Horace Davis, growing on his country 
place near Glenwood. There were two plants growing side by 
side and they reached the great height of twelve feet and two 
inches, with a diameter at base of two inches. The summit 
spread out into a great panicle, containing hundreds of sessile 
heads in bunches at the ends of branchlets, with the ovate in- 
volucres as hard, almost, as bullets and altogether so heavy as to 
bend the stout stem to the ground. ‘The leaves are broad 
and amplexicaul not deeply lobed and with the divisions 
_ spine-tipped; the lower surface is white tomentose, the upper 
scabrous, with short appressed bristles. The involucres are about 
an inch long with many small scales; these are green at base, 
have a yeilowish spot at apex and are tipped with a short, stiff, 
yellow or brown spine, they are somewhat arachnoid tomentose. 
The flowers are purple. 
