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cream-colored flowers and lead-colored fruit. The species has not 

 been seen elsewhere, nor any representative of the genus, though 

 the specimen referred to is multiplying by shoots at the base. 



It is seldom that Eschscholtzia Californica is seen here, but there 

 is a very small poppy, which rarely reaches over eight inches in 

 height; it is frequent on high, dry hills, and is most commonly 

 three to six inches high. Miss Eastwood writes me that it may be 

 E. ramosa Greene. 



There is a Lupine frequently met with which Miss Eastwood 

 thinks an undescribed variety of Lupinus truncatus. 



In one locality Sarcostemma heterophyllum covers a great rock 

 which, falling from an overhanging cliff, has nearly filled the narrow 

 arroyo. 



A dainty plant is Hosackia micrantha; in a few localities it is 

 abundant; "very slender and diffusely procumbent," with tiny 

 yellow flowers and long attenuate, shining, red-brown pods. It is 

 one cf the first flowers to appear after the rains. H. strigosa 

 has rarely ten leaflets; pods often recurved and pubescent. H. 

 maritiraa has decumbent stems over a foot in length and it is 

 frequently six-foliolate. 



Trifolium tridentatum is found everywhere ; T. ciliatum, T. 

 Palmeri, T. microcephaleum occur frequently ; T. Catalinse inclines 

 to dry slopes by the sea, while T. amplectens thrives on uplands of 

 about one thousand feet elevation. During the summer months 

 Medicago saliva blooms in Avalon Caiion. Lupinus hirsutissiraus 

 is frequent and is three feet high ; pods two inches long (" an inch 

 long," Botany of California), exceedingly hirsute. 



As to trees, we certainly have trees, thougli they are mostly out 

 of view in the deep canons, low-set bushes being noticeable on the 

 otherwise bare hills. Even Rhus integrifolia often takes on an 

 arboreus form, attaining a height of twenty and twenty-five feet, 

 with trunk a foot in diameter. R. laurina has been found two feet 

 in diameter; Rhamnus crocea, Rhus ovata, Heteromeles arbutifolia, 

 and indeed all the shrubs become arborescent and arboreus as 

 opportunity oflTers; and remembering Lydnothamnus floribundus, 

 Quercus tomentella, Q. oblongifolia (or Q. MacDonaldi), Salix 

 laevigata and S. lasiolepis and Cercocarpus parvifolius, there can 

 be no doubt that we have trees. 



