CONTRIBUTIONS TO SOUTHERN: CALIFORNIA: . 
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S. Be PARISH. 
EQUISETUM MEXICANUM Milde, Verhandl. 1882, 1256(?). The 
Southern California plant which recently has been referred heré 
does not agree altogether satisfactorily with Milde’s description: 
His species was founded on specimens collected by Muller in: 
Orizaba, in 1855, and is perhaps of doubtful validity, having been 
included, with several other of Milde’s species, in Z. . giganteum 
i by Baker in the Handbook of Ferin-Allies. San Bernardino: 
specimens were placed in £4. variegatum Schleich, by Underwood . 
in Coville, Death Valley Report, 226, and the plant has been dis- 
tributed by: myself and others as Z. /evigatum A. Br- 
Whatever may be its proper name the plant is abundant in the 
intramontane region, ascending at least to 1,500 ft. alt., and’ 
reaching Santa Catalina Island.* In the desert region it has” 
been collected at Palm Springs in the Colorado Desert, and on 
the Mojave River at Camp Cady. It is found in wet or drier 
sand, and usually in shaded situations, and is evergreen under 
suitable conditions, but.in drier soil it vegetates in spring seas 
early summer. Fruit i in June-July. if 
“SELAGINELLA WATSONI Underw. “Bull. Lor. Ultb. a6 397. 
Summit of San Jacinto Mt. , Clinton S. Kimball, High divide 
west of Bear Valley, alt. 7,500 ft., eae Bernardino Mts., June, | 
1886, 1776 Parish. ! 
SPHAERALCEA Pilvoc ui Californten, About 1 m. high; 
stems glabrate below; leaves oblong, 2-3 cm. long, more or less 
distinctly subhastately lobed, unevenly and obtusely toothed; - 
flowers salmon-red; carpels 5 mm. long, indistinctly apiculate, 
the lower half strongly reticulate; seed ees circular, 2 mm. in 
diameter, hirsute. 
Near Colton, a single Slant. aris 1894, 2,846 Park. Sai: 
_ bell-Johnson Ranch, Garvanza, also a single plant, L. A. Greata, 
_- #McClatchie, Eryth. 2, 122, 
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