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bricated at base ; stems simple or brancherl. stems branching; 

 from base npwards very leafy ; petals white, narrow strap-shaped 

 eqnalling the sepals and inconspicuous, stamens exserted ; mature 

 fruit 6 to 8 hues long on pedicels of less than half their length,, 

 style prominent, straight, abort 2 lines long, fruits not contorted 

 or only occasionally convolute. 



The type of this species was collected on the top of Alt- 

 San Antonio by Mr. Burlew. In the month of July Air. F. 

 Grinnell brought the same plant from Alt. San Gorg-onio. This 

 plant has passed as Draba corrugata Wats. The latter is well- 

 represented by the specimens found on Alt. San Jacinto. These 

 show a less hirsute plant, more lax in habit with conspicuou.s> 

 petals and markedly corrugate pods, which are in marked con- 

 trast to this species with its apparently apetalous flowers, and 

 tufted habit. From a note sent by Air. F. J. Smiley from the 

 Gray Herbarium it would seem that lioth Draba corrugata and. 

 D. vestita are represented on Alt. San Gorg'onio. 

 Type No. 2995 in author's herbarium. Co-type in Gra\- herbar- 

 ium. 



THE TECATE CYPRESS. 



By Charles F. Saunders. 



In the Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of 

 Sciences for January, 1914, there appeared an interesting' paper 

 by Mr. S. B. Parish concerning a peculiar cyoress growing on 

 Amount Tecate, San Diego County. Air. Parish's account was 

 based on observations of trees growing in the bottom of gulches 

 within easy access of the automobile road which skirts the base 

 of the mountain on the north side. In such situations he tound 

 the cypress to be a slender tree at most twenty feet in height, 

 but saw no seedlings or very young specimens, nor on the other 

 hand any which might be termed aged, nor the remains of old 

 trees. He was informed, however, that on the summit of the 

 mountain, several hundred specimens were growing, ay)parently 

 of great age, and with trunks two and three feet in diameter ; 

 but as an ascent of the mountain was im])racticable from the 

 high road, this report could not be confirmed. 



Finding myself recently in the vicinity of Tecate, 1 visited 

 the mountain, and spent a day upon its slopes and summit with 

 the view of studying the distribution of the cypress. The result 

 may be of interest as supplementing Air. Parish's account. 



Tecate Mountain, whose height is given by the U. S. Geo- 

 logical Survey as 3890 feet, is without trails and uninha1)ite(l, 



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