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strong knobs and delicate prickles. This is a tall, straight, 

 slender tree often found circling the mountain meadows. It was 

 noted at East Lake, along Bubbs Creek and around the meadows 

 at the higher altitudes on the trail to the canon. 



Pinus monophylla Torr. & Frem. Nut Pine. Leaves soli- 

 tary, pale green, spine-tipped, cylindrical. Cones almost round, 

 and with but very few knobby scales. The large seeds form a 

 valuable part of the food of the Indians of Nevada, where the 

 species is common. It is a low, spreading tree, irregularly 

 branched. This was seen only in Kings River Canon and on the 

 hill which ascends from where Kings River joins Bubbs Creek. 



QRAMINE/E. Grass Famii^y. 

 These grasses were determined by F. L. Scribner, who was at 

 the time Chief of the Division of Agrostology, Department of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C. I merely append the list, as the 

 grasses are too difficult for all except specialists. 



Agropyrum caninum L. Bubbs Creek. 



Agrostis exarata Trin. Bubbs Creek. 



Clymus glaucus Buckl. var. Bubbs Creek. 



Festuca microstachya ref lexa. Bearskin Meadow. 



Hordeum murinum L. Bearskin Meadow. 



Melica stricta Bolander. Bubbs Creek. 



Phleum alpinum L. Bullfrog Lake. 



Sitanion glabrum J. Q. Smith. Kings River Canon. 



Sporobolus depauperatus Torr. Bubbs Creek. 



Stipa occidentalis Thurb. Bubbs Creek. 



Trisetum canescens Buckl. Bubbs Creek. 



This is not by any means a complete list of the grasses which 

 grow in the region, only a list of those that I collected. 



LILIACE/E. Lily Family. 

 Allium bisceptrum Watson. Wild Onion. Plants with the 

 odor and taste of onion, bulb having the outer coat marked with 

 a fine veining. Stems a few inches to more than half a foot high, 

 with 2 sheathing leaves near the base and terminated by an um- 

 bel of reddish-purple flowers. Involucre consisting of 2 papery 

 bracts, pointed at apex, united at base. Divisions of the small 

 perianth ovate, pointed. Millwood and General Grant Park. 



