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drifts at the date of the earlier visit, while at the later one the 

 sheep had nearly finished all that were to their taste. No one 

 lives on the upper part of the mountain, but there are remains of 

 old cabins at the summit meadows, where the shepherd pitches 

 his tent for the late summer when the flocks are driven up from 

 the lower slopes. In the clear cold streams which run down its 

 gorges to join the south fork of the Eel River, trout abound and 

 deer are a common sight, and venison is familiar food to the 

 visitor. 



The landscape forcibly reminds of the Sierra Nevada. The 

 small lakes and boggy meadows are bordered by Veratrum and 

 alpine asters, and spangled with white violets and the primrose 

 mimulus all hoary with dew-entangled hairs. The upper slopes 

 and dry valleys are covered with forests of white cedar, fir and 

 "Jeff"rey's pine," surrounded by thickets of the bitter cherry 

 [Prumis emarginata) and the " snowbush " {Ceanothus cordii- 

 latus), while the peaks and ridges and the dry uplands of the 

 meadows are brightened by the scarlet Gilia aggregata, the 

 well-known " pussy's paws" {^Spragiiea umbellata), the brilliant 

 yellow Eriogonum timbellatum, the broad tufts of purple and 

 white E. ovalifolium , and the fluffy rose-colored balls of the 

 most beautiful of all the species, E. Lobbii. 



A few additions to the coast flora were made by Mr. Brande- 

 gee in a visit of a single day, late in September, to the Yolo 

 Bolo.* The mountain had been at that date so ravaged by 

 sheep, that no food whatever remained for the horses, and the 

 trip was brought to an untimely conclusion. 



Mr. C. F. L^eithold, a student of the Stanford University, 

 made in June of the present year a collection of the plants of 

 Cobb Mountain, in I^ake County, a few miles north of Mt. St. 

 Helena. Its flora is almost the same as that of the neighboring 

 mountain, but Abies concolor is found upon it. 



The general level of Lake County is of considerable alti- 

 tude, Clear Lake which occupies its centre being about 1500 feet, 

 so that the elevation of the mountains above the level of the sea 

 is a good deal greater than their apparent height. Bartlett 



* Called on the maps " Yallo Ballo," but pronounced as above by the 

 people of the vicinitj-. 



