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Galium Catalinense is abundant on rocky slopes and sunny cliffs. 



We have a very peculiar form of CEuothera micrautlia with 

 numerous decumbent stems, three to four feet long; bark shreddy; 

 leaves at base cespitose, two to three inches long, the upper smaller, 

 very wavy, somewhat dentate and clasping. 



Ribes viburniflorum thrives in all parts of the island in moist 

 places. Its leaves shine in the sun and it is exquisitely fragrant 

 occasionally; it covers the steep walls of one canon^ that I know to 

 the height of a hundred feet for a stretch of a quarter of a mile or 

 more. This canon — and if it is ever honored with a name, it should 

 indeed be that of *• Currant Canon" — which consumes two hours in 

 tramping from its head to the sea, is clothed with this beautiful 

 Ribes — mile after mile of overhanging rocks being festooned with 

 its branches. 



In Pebbly Beach Canon, one specimen of Specularia biflora was 

 collected, peculiar in its construction, having four stigmas, six 

 stamens and a small sixth lobe to the five-lobed calyx. 



An anomalous specimen of Godetia tenella was collected and 

 proved very interesting. It had four stamens with long filaments 

 and the anthers purple and arcuate, and four stamens with fila- 

 ments half as long and anthers yellow; all the anthers ciliate with 

 short white hairs and somewhat pubescent with scattered hairs; 

 stigma lobes white, purple tinged; leaves barely petioled. 



Mr. Lyon speaks of the absence of Brodisea capitata during the 

 time of his visit, although he says it was collected here in other 

 years. For the last three seasons, at least, it has been abundant. 

 Brodisea minor is rarely seen. 



A wonder in beauty is Mirabilis Californica and fittingly named. 

 The plant differs in many respects from the ordinary form. Plant 

 not " yellowish green ; " stems three to four feet long, mostly decum- 

 bent from " a decidedly woody base," half an inch in diameter; 

 leaves hispid-pubescent, the short, stiff hairs mostly recurved, 

 "from a distinctly pustulate base," the margins beset with 

 stiff hairs; pubescence slight upon the stems and young leaves; 

 petioles twelve lines long; involucre six lines long; perianth twelve 

 lines long, with yellow, five-ra^'ed eye; fruit six lines long. 



Lyonothamnus floribundus is hardly so rare as reported by Mr. 

 Brandegee. I have found more than a dozen groves on the larger 



