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(sometimes strongly so), smooth or minutely scabrous with a thin 

 webby tuft at the base; palet ± shorter than its glume, narrow, 



smooth. . .11 



This is No. 6115 of Bolander s distribution, and recently col- 

 lected by Prof. M. E. Jones, at Soda Springs, Cal. It is closely re- 

 lated to Poa arctica, which was also collected at the same place by 



Mr. Jones. ,.,,/. • ^^ ^ 



Stipa Parishii.— Culms 1 to W ft. high, leafy especially be- 

 low; leaves conduplicate or involute, smooth, rigid and divergent 

 lower ones 6 inches, upper ones about 3 inches long, throat of 

 sheath fringed with a few soft white hairs, ligule very short, upper 

 sheath long* somewhat inflated and enclosing the base of the pan- 

 icle; panicle about 6 inches long, open and somewhat spreading 

 except at the included base, lower branches in threes, upper in 

 pairs or single, rather few flowered at the ends of the branches and 

 tiranchlets, longest rays about 2 inches; outer glumes hnear- 

 lanceolate, acute. 3 nerved, smooth, the lower one 6 to 7 lines long, 

 the upper 5 to 6 lines, nearly twice as long as the flowering glume, 

 which with the short stipe is 3 to 1 lines long, densely clothed 

 with silky hairs which are longer toward the apex, bidentate, the 

 teeth less than a line long; awn 9 lines long, smooth below, sca- 

 brous above. , _ „ _ _ . , „ 

 Collected in the San Bernardino Mts., by Mr. S. B. Parish, for 



whom it is named. — Or. Vasky. 



Notes on California Plants— Balsamorhiza sagittate, Nutt. 

 o-rows on the west side of the Sierras at Summit, along with 

 IVi/etJtia mollis. 



Dr. Gray did well to take it for granted (without proof) that 

 Collomm tinctoria, Kellogg, was a var. of C. linearis. I have a form 

 intermediate between the two, showing that they are not distinct 

 as suggested in the Flora of California. 



The flowers of Eriogonum Lobbii are sometimes ochroleucous, 

 as well as white. 



Polygonum Muhlenbergii grows at Santa Cruz. 



The leaves of Spiranthes Romanzbffiana are net-vemed. 



Allium platycaule has linear-oblong reticulations. They are 



not absent. , . , 



The heads of Hieracium albiflorum are olten slightly glandu- 

 lar in my Santa Cruz specimens, and in my Soda Springs specimens 

 they are quite glandular even to the peduncles. The pubescence 

 of the heads, in at least some species of Hieracium and Crepis, is a 

 verv shaky character. n , 



* Tt is a mistake to say that the leaves of the Eucalyptus oi Cal- 

 ifornia "turn edgewise to the sun" and so give little shade lne 

 young leaves are pendent and so vertical of course, but they do not 

 show a sensitiveness bv which the petiole is twisted to keep them 



