92 ERYTHEA. 



Salicornia 8UBTERMINALIS, Parish, Eryth. vi. 87. I now 

 have this from Sunta Monica, Hasse, and San Diego, Brandegee. 

 At the latter place it is said to be the most abundant species. In 

 fruiting specimens the terminal joints are not always present, being 

 probably deciduous. But the plant is readily recognized by its 

 habit and the enlarged fruiting joints. 



EscHscHOLTZiA Californica, Cham, in Nees, Horse. Phys. 

 Berol. 73, t. 15. San Gorgonio Pass, from Belmont to Banning, 

 altitude about 3,000 feet. Upper Lake at Bear -Valley in the San 

 Bernardino Mountains, at 6,700 feet altitude. Elizabeth Lake at 

 3,800 feet altitude. 



Perennial from a fleshy root ; foliage ample, its divisions mostly 

 broad and obtuse; torus with a more or less expanded border; 

 corolla large, orange-yellow, the earliest flowers not scapose. 



Restricting the species to the perennial plant above indicated' 

 it is rare in Southern California. The perennial chai-acter ap- 

 pears to be inherent and not to depend directly upon the condi- 

 tions, to which the plant is subjected, as has been conjectured to be 

 the case in some localities. In the San Gorgonio Pass tlie plants 

 grow in a hard, red clay, which becomes thoroughly dry in sum- 

 mer, and the plants vegetate only during the rainy season, flower- 

 ing in early spring, the root soon becoming dormant. At Elizabeth- 

 Lake they grow on dry hillsides, and were still flowering in June. 

 Those in Bear-Valley endure the rigors of a Sierran winter. They 

 grow mostly on a subalkaline flat, the only case where they have a 

 permanently damp soil, but they also extend up the adjacent gravelly 

 hills above the moisture of the basin. Except at the last station 

 they are accompanied by the very similar E. peninsularis, Greene, 

 which is distinguishable only by its annual root, and the early 

 scapose flowers common to many, and probably to all, the annual 

 forms. 



Whipplea modesta, Torrey, Pac. R. Rep. iv. 90, t. 7. A 

 considerable patch on a gravelly slope, under Quercus agrifolia, in 

 the canon leading from Yucaipe, near Redlands, to San Timoteo, at 

 about 2,000 feet altitude, July 6, 1899. This extends the southern 

 limit of the species far beyond previously reported stations, and to a 



