NEW LOCALITIES FOR CALIFORNIA PLANTS. 



BY T. S. BRANDEGEE. 



In a region of such great extent as the State of California, so 

 much of it yet wild and unvisited by botanists, we may hardly 

 yet hope to have anything approaching a complete enumeration of 

 the plants to be found within its borders. The distribution of 

 the greater number of the species is, however, already approxi- 

 mately known, though fresh facts as they appear show us 

 continually that the range of very many of them is much 

 greater than has been supposed. The present paper is intended 

 as a record of not only new forms, but of a very considerable 

 number of extensions in range, some of them so unexpected and 

 so far from previous stations as to be hardly credible without the 

 evidence of the collector's specimens. 



The data hereinafter given are largely drawn from collections 

 made by Mr. William Vortriede in the Santa Lucia Mountains, 

 in 1892, by Mr. L- Jared at Goodwin and Carisa Plain in the 

 southeastern part of San Luis Obispo County from April to June 

 of the present year, and by Miss Alice Eastwood, also in this 

 year, in the mountains west and south of Bakersfield and west 

 and north of Alcalde, and from the Mission of San Antonio 

 through the coast mountains north to the Sur River. The 

 names of other collectors are given after the stations of the plants 

 collected by them. Where no name appears the collection has 

 been in most cases made by the writer. 



Myosurus minvnus L- grows in very stout luxuriant form, 

 the long receptacle often branching, about the marsh between 

 Mt. Eden and Alvarado. It is nearly as abundant, but much 

 more slender along the railway between Suisun and Vanden. 



Delphinium 7iudicaule T. & G. Santa Lucia Mountains, 



Eastwood, Vortriede. 



Isopyrum occidentale H. & A. Santa Lucia Mountains, Vor- 

 triede; Coburn Mills, Tulare County. 



In the alpine region about Mt. Whitney there grows a yellow 

 flowered Aquilegia, probably the one mentioned in the Botany 

 of California as A. ccvrzdea. It is common about Mt. Kaweah 

 and there its yellow color often shades into red upon the spurs. 



