92 ERYTHEA. 



Cnicus Drummondii Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. x. 40. Meadows 

 at Warner's Ranch, San Diego Co., June, 1897. Stems 1-2 ft. high. 



Hemizonella minima Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. ix. 189. Mt. 

 Wilson, near Pasadena, McGlatchie. 



Baeria tenella Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 23. This rare 

 plant, which has escaped the notice of botanists since the early 

 collections of Gambel and of Parry, has been rediscovered this 

 spring by Mr. Lewis A. Greata, near Los Angeles. Except in the 

 pappus- character the plant is precisely like B. affinis Gray, and it 

 would not be surprising, if the two were found to run together. Mr. 

 Greata, however, who also finds B. affinis at the same station, has 

 not been able to detect any intermediate forms. 



Hulsea Californica Torr. & Gray, Bot. Mex. Bound. 98. Near 

 Nelly in Smith Mt., San Diego Co., McClatchie, Parish. 



Solidago speciosa Nutt. Gen. ii. 160. Bear Valley, Davidson. 

 Bluff Lake, Miss Pettibone. 



Chaenactis Orcuttiana. C. tenuifolia Orcuttiana Greene, West 

 Am. Scientist, iii. 157. Cliffs facing the ocean, Encinitas; Oceanside. 



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Scirpus maritimus compactus Koch. — This variety appears 

 not to have been hitherto recorded from the Pacific Slope. It 

 grows along with the type at Rosedale near Bakersfield, Kern 

 County, in a spot so strongly impregnated with alkali salts that a 

 white efflorescence nearly two inches thick,, covers it in the dry 

 season. This locality is at least eighty miles from the nearest sea- 

 water. 



Howell has collected it, also, "on tide -lands north of the 

 TJmpqua -River, Oregon," and I have found it along with the type 

 in the salt-marshes of San Francisco Ba}% at West Berkeley. After 

 nine months' cultivation in adobe soil, practically free from alkali 

 salts, in the Botanic Garden at Berkeley, the Rosedale plant has 

 flowered and produced seed, and maintains its varietal characteristics. 



Flowers with both two and three stigmas, and with nutlets either 

 plano-convex or compressed-trigonous, occur in the same spikelet in 



