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keel showing as a conspicuous blotch in the center. Pod obtuse, 

 3-seeded. 



Trifolium obtusiflorum Hook. 



Strawberry Valley, Shingle Valley, both below 5500 ft. alt. 



(No. 2075.) 



Trifolium Rusbyi Greene, Erythea i. 5 (1898). 



(.'ollected only in the meadows of Tahquitz Valley at 8000 ft. 

 alt., in the Upper Transition Zone. These specimens have the 

 small, narrow leaflets of var. atroruhens Greene.* The flowers 

 are on very short pedicels and the color is intermediate between 

 that of the type and that of the variety. (No. 2365.) 



Trifolium tridentatum Lindl. 



Beneath pines of the south side at 4500 ft. alt. (No. 2029.) 



Trifolium variegatum Nutt. 



This species, the stems of which vary from a few inches in 

 length when growing in dry soil to two feet or more when near 

 streams, was found on the south and west sides up to an altitude 

 of 8500 ft. (Nos. 2035, 2273.) 



Trifolium Wormskjoldii Lelim. T. involucraium Willd., of 

 Bot. Calif. 

 Found only in meadows below 4500 ft. alt. 



Vicia Americana truncata (JSfntt.) Brewer. Vetch. 



In the lower part of the pine belt of the south side. (No. 



2298.) 



GERANIACE^. 



Erodium cicutarium ( L.) L'Her. Filaree. 



Commonly introduced on ranches at the lower altitudes. 



Geranium Fremontii Torr. 



Collected at several places in Tahquitz Valley with the next. 

 (No. 722.1.) 



Geranium Richardsonii F. d- T. Wild Geranium. 



Quite common in wet meadows, etc., in the Upper Transition 

 Also collected in Strawberry Valley. (Nos. 722, 2336.) 



* Erythea iv. OG (18%) 



