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Melica striata Boland. Yosemite Cliffs. 



fugax Boland. Frequent above 6,000 feet. 

 Glyceria fluitans. R. Br. Y. 



nervata Trin. Frequent above 4,000 feet. 



pauciflora Presl. W., etc. 

 Agropyrum violaceum Lange. Upper slopes of the mountains. 



A. 

 Cheilanthes Californica Mett. Y. 

 Pellaea Breweri Eaton. Yosemite Cliffs. 



densa Hook. Yosemite Cliffs. 



Bridgesli Hook. Yosemite Cliffs. 

 Cryptogramme acrostichoides. R. Br. Yosemite Cliffs. Moun- 

 tain slopes. 

 Aspidium Nevadense Eaton. 



These species, 295 in number, of which only 21 are certainly 

 known to extend above to the proper alpine heights, taken with the 

 39 species in common with the plains and lower foothills, and the 75 

 species which reach here from the coniferous belt, make a total of 

 409 native species, which constitute the entire proper flora of the 

 district. Scarcely a trace of the naturalized plants of the lower re- 

 gions here appears except in the cultivated grounds at Wawona and 

 in the Yosemite, and no attempt is here made to take any account of 

 them nor of some common plants that are limited to the cultivated 

 fields and meadows in both valleys, and are as much introduced plants 

 where they are *bund as the recognized weeds that grow with them- 



NOTES ON OTTERS. 



BY SAM HUBBARD, JR. 



SEA OTTER {Eitkydris lutris'). 



The coast of Washington from Gray's Harbor north to Cape Flat- 

 tery is the only part of the United States in which the sea otter is 

 now hunted outside of Alaska. This interesting and valuable fur 

 bearer, unlike its cousin, the land otter, lives in the ocean, and is 

 rarely known to come ashore. A full-grown sea otter is about as 

 large as a setter dog, with a thick, chunky head, and a mouth full 

 of formidable looking teeth. It has short fore legs, not over six or 



