54 EEYTHEA. 



Sclero podium obiusifolium (Drumm.) Mac. & Kindb. On 

 shaded banks and ou rocks in or near running water. Wild- 

 cat Canon; Sisson; Shasta Springs; Loma Prieta, Santa 

 Clara Co., Mr. J. Burtt Davy. 



Isotheciiim Howei, Kindb. {Revue Bryologique, 1895, 

 p. 82). This is one of many forms intermediate between 

 Isoihecium Brewerianiim (Lesq.) and Isothecium rnyosur- 

 oides (L.) Brid., var. sioloniferum (Hook), with the more 

 points of correspondence with the former. It was collected 

 on beams of the " Old Mill," in Mill Valley. 



Tharmiium Holzingeri. Ken. & Card. At base of Umbellu- 

 laria trees and on fallen trunks of the same at Olema 

 Dioicous; cilia commonly single with sometimes a second 

 imperfect one; annulus compound. 



Plagiothecium denticulatum (L.) Br. Sch. On rotten 

 wood, Olema. 



Amblystegium compactum (C. Muell.) Br. Sch. On moist 

 rocks, Shasta Springs. 



Hypnum Sendtneri, Sch., forma vulgaris, Sanio. Abun- 

 dant on very wet adobe flats, Forestdale, Modoc Co., M. S. 

 Baker and F. P. Nutting. Determined by the eminent 

 authority on the Harpidium group — Mons. P. Renauld. 



Limnohium palustre (L.) Br. Sch. On rocks wet by spray 

 of Mossbrae Falls, Shasta Springs. 



SOME CALIFOKNIAN SPECIES OF 

 PHACELIA. 



By Edwakd L. Gkeene. 



Phacelia virgata. Biennial, very stout, strictly erect, 

 2 or 3 feet high, leafy at base, and to the middle of the stem, 

 thence compactly virgate-racemose to the summit: stem with 

 a sparse almost hispid coarse pubescence, and underneath 



