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a rounded summit which is a httle less than 5600 ft. elevation. 

 On this north slope we found some very fine specimens of 

 Heuchera elegans. This little alum-root grew at the base 

 of rocks and trees. It has a thick rootstock, roundish-cordate 

 basal leaves and cymosely branched panicles of small flowers 

 with pink calyx and white petals. Here also were many mag- 

 nificent clumps of Pentstemon Palmcri, some of them nearly 

 three feet in diameter and two feet high. The large creamy 

 lavender flowers made a very fine show. Almost equally fine 

 was the display of Nama Parryi, some of the stalks of which 

 were five or more feet high and carried spikes nearly two 

 feet long of purplish funnelform flowers. 



Coming out on Barley Flats, which is an open rolling 

 ridge, having a general elevation of about 5500 ft., covered 

 with grasses and forested with big cone pine (Pinus Coulteri), 

 we found various patches of color. Portions were quite white 

 with Linanthus androsaceus, a slender plant with palmately 

 linear-lobed leaves and salver-shaped flowers with a very slen- 

 der tube and oval lobes. The flowers vary- from white to pink- 

 ish. Other parts were deep orange with Chaenactis glahriiiscula, 

 while scattered all about were clumps of Lit pinus Hallii, plants 

 of Calochortiis invenustus montanus with pale lavender 

 flowers, and mats of Briogommi Kennedyi (?) . This last 

 was not yet in flower, which accounts for the slight uncertainty 

 in its determination, but its interest for this trip lay in its 

 being the host of several plants of the slender broom-rape 

 {Thalesia fascitdata) . Many smaller and less massed flowers 

 were scattered all about, although the season was rather late. 



Leaving Barley Flats the trail took an eastward trend 

 and we travelled about five miles along a dry ridge having 

 very little of especial interest. About the only color to relieve 

 the monotonous gray-green of the chaparral, which is here 



