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nearest subsequent collection is that made at the Mt Whitney 

 Meadows, by Coville & Funston." The plant appears to belong 

 to higher altitudes than that of Los Angeles. 

 Chortzanthe spinosa Watson, Bot. Cal. 2:481. 

 The type-specimen is noted as collected "near San Bernardino, 

 by Lemmon." It really came from the Mojave Desert, where it 

 has been obtained since by several botanists. 



Atripeex Parryi Watson, Proc. Am. Acad. 17:378. 

 A specimen said to have been collected by Dr. Parry "near 

 Colton" is the type of this species. Dr. Parry's plant was col- 

 letecd at Lancaster, in the Mojave Desert. 



Kochia Caufornica Watson, Proc. Am. Acad. 17:378. 

 One of the types of this species, also, is noted as collected 

 "near Colton, by Parry," but like the last came really from 

 Lancaster. Both plants are characteristic desert species, and are 

 not rare in the Mojave Desert. 



Ceadothrix cryptantha Watson, Proc. Am. Acad. 26:125. 

 Dr. Parry's 274 of 1881, a part of the type of this species, is 

 another distinctively desert plant erroneously stated to have been 

 collected "at Colton." Dr. Parry obtained it in the eastern part 

 of the Colorado Desert. 

 Lupinus microcarpus Sims, Bot. Mag. t. 2413. 

 There is a specimen of this plant in the Gray herbarium, 

 labeled "? Thurber, San Diego," which appears to be the principal 

 evidence of its existence in southern California. Certainly it is 

 not "frequent," as noted by Brewer and Watson in the Botany 

 of California. 

 DaeEa Caufornica Watson, Proc. Am. Acad. 11:132. 

 The original description of this species cites as the type 

 "scanty specimens recently collected by Dr. Parry in the San 

 Bernardino Mountains," and in the Botany of California' 7 the 

 locality is given more definitely as "dry washes in the San Ber- 

 nardino Mountains, near Cajon Pass." In reality Dr. Parry's 

 type was collected on the borders of the Colorado Desert, a few 

 miles east of Banning. The plant, an intricately branched 



16 Coville, F. V. Death Val. Rep. i95. 



17 Brewer & Watson, Hot. Cal., 1:143. 



