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ON MR. PARISH'S PLANTS OF SOUTHERN 

 CALIFORNIA OF 1895. 



By Edward L. Greene. 



In preparing for distribution a set of herbarium specimens 

 of the plants of his vicinity, Mr. Samuel B. Parish of San 

 Bernardino, California, has done a good work for botany; and 

 we hope his labor may not have been in vain from the point 

 of view that looks to remuneration. His specimens made 

 during the season of 1895 are certainly for the most part 

 very beautiful; not inferior to those distributed by any of our 

 collectors. 



As this set contains a number of species for the publi- 

 cation of which I am responsible, and these not rarely under 

 wrong names, it becomes scarcely less than my duty to offer 

 the following corrections and annotations. 



The numbers are those of the labels. 



3781. " Delphinium hesperium, Gray." This is exactly 

 D. SCAPOSUM, Greene, a species very common from almost 

 the Texan border to the Mohave- Desert, ranging northward 

 into Nevada, Mr. Shockley having distributed it as D. 

 azureum and D. Menziesii. No species of the genus is 

 farther removed from D. hesperium than this. 



3691. " Ranunculus Californicns, var. latilohus, Gray." 

 The type of what Dr. Gray so designated is very unlike this. 

 It is a tall upright plant with few and very broad leaf-lobes, 

 almost like those of R. recurvatus, and it belongs to the sea- 

 board. Mr. Parish's specimen is a very beautiful represen- 

 tation of R, LuDOViciANUS, Greene, much better than what I 

 had before, and the species is perfectly valid. 



3786. This, though given out for a new Malvastrum, is 

 my SiDALCEA HiCKMANi, thougli smaller than the Monterey 

 Co. type, and with the inflorescence more spicate-congested. 

 It is, indeed, an aberrant member of the genus Sidalcea, as 



Erythea, Vol. IV., No. 4 [7 April, 1896]. 



