156 Nezu Localities for California Plants. [zoe 



Joaquin, especially about Robert's Island; in Lake County, and 

 even on Redwood Peak, back of Oakland. Specimens are also 

 in the herbarium of the Academy of Sciences from Sisson, col- 

 lected by Dr. Palmer, and from Big Meadows, collected by J. G. 

 Lemmon, in 1880. 



CoUmsia Childii Parry. Santa L,ucia Mountains, Vortriede. 



Mimuliis Palmeri Gray. Santa Lucia Mountains, Vortriede; 

 Ben Lomond. 



Mimulics Congdoni Wats, grows under the shade of Ceanothus 

 bushes not far from the Lagunitas water-tank on the North 

 Pacific Coast Railwaj^ It much resembles M. latifoUus Gray, 

 of the islands off the coast of California and Mexico. 



Mhnulus Bolanderi Gray. Tehachapi; Santa Lucia Moun- 

 tains, Vortriede. 



Pentstetnon Palmeri Gray. Lewis Creek and New Idria, 

 Eastwood. 



Ve7'07iiea Buxbaiunii Ten. Woodland, J. IV. BlankinsJiip. 



Casiilleia plagiotoma Gray. Alcalde, Eastwood; Goodwin, 

 Ja7'ed. , 



Orthocarpus gracilis Benth. Santa Lucia Mountains, Vor- 

 triede. It seems not to have been collected since the time of 

 Nuttall. 



Aphyllon comosum (Hook.) is extraordinarily abundant in the 

 low, overflowed lands between the San Joaquin and Paradise 

 Cut about and beneath the railway trestle. It there blooms in 

 August and September, both the plant and the flower unusually 

 large, and from white through shades of lavender to purple. 

 It seems there to be always parasitic on Grindelia. 



Boschniakia strobilacea Gray has been brought from Willett's, 

 Mendocino County, by Dr. Mary G. Campbell; and from Apple- 

 gate in southern Oregon, by Mrs. H. S. Durden, It appears 

 to grow always upon roots of Manzanita. 



Utricularia zmlgaris L- Blocksburg, Humboldt County, 

 J. W. Blankinship; near San Joaquin Bridge; ponds near Olema. 



Acanthomhitha lanceolata Curran. Specimens of this plant 

 obtained recently show that it is not nearly so widely separated 



