40 Botany of Mariposa. [zoe 



Asclepias speciosa Torr. Open grounds. A rather showy spe- 

 cies. More common in the next zone. Stockton, etc. 

 C. 

 Erythnea venusta Gray. Water courses. Frequent. More 



abundant in the zone above. C. 

 GiUa Bolanderi Gray. Open clayey grounds. Mariposa, etc. 

 Scarce, 

 filicaulis Torr. Dry hillsides. Mt. Bullion, etc. Not com- 

 mon. 

 Ellisia membranacea Benth. Open rocky places near the plains. 

 Phacelia humilis T. & G. Rocky shaded places. Mariposa and 

 above. C. S. 

 hispida Gray. Rocks. Agua Fria, etc. March, 

 phyllomanica Gray (or bipinnatifida). Shaded rocks. 

 Mariposa, etc. 

 Plagiobothrys tenellus Gray. Moist grounds. Frequent. C. 

 Torreyanus Gray. Same localities. C. 

 muriculatus. Wooded hillsides. C. 

 barbigerus Gray. Open shady places. Darrah 



Road, etc. C. 

 sparsiflorus Greene. Rocky banks of streams. 

 Mormon Bar. 

 Echinospermum Greenei Gra}'. Open grassy places. Mariposa. 

 Cynoglossum laeve Gray. Moist hillsides. April. 

 Pectocarya pusilla Gray. Clayey soils near Mariposa. April. 

 Datura meteloides DC. Stream beds. Probably introduced 



from below. 

 Verbascum Thapsus L. This common eastern weed is fast be- 

 coming too frequent in Mariposa county. C. 

 Antirrhinum leptaleum Gray. Open and especiallv cultivated 

 grounds. Mariposa and above. C. 

 Breweri Gray. Occasional on hillsides, near Mariposa. 

 Collinsia tinctoria Hartg. Wooded hillsides and stream banks. 



Mariposa and above. C. 

 Penstemon heterophyllus Lindl. Open grounds, Mariposa, etc. 

 azureus Benth. Higher up. Probably a form of the last. 

 C. 

 Mimulus nanus Hook. & Arn. Wooded hillsides. Mariposa and 

 above. C. 



