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single specimen from Napa Valley. We found two specimens 



near Grouse Creek. 



Watson. On rocks at Kneeland Prairie. 



Ptilocalais gracililoba (KelL), Greene. {Calais gracililolm, 

 Kellogg, Proc. Cal. Acad. v. 48.) Described by Dr. Kellogg in 

 1873, from three specimens collected in Mendocino County, and 

 has probably not been seen since. We found three specimens on 

 the western side of South Fork Mountain. 



BelHs perenniSy'L. Naturalized about Areata. 



Cniciis arvensis (L.), Hoffm, Introduced at Areata, some 

 six years ago, and has become firmly established." 



Gaiiltheria Myrsinitcs, Hook. Near the head of Deer Creek. 



Pentstemon Rattani^ Gray. A small form, summit of South 

 Fork Mountain. 



ApJiyllon pinctonnn^ Gray. Pilot Creek. 



A , fasciculatiim (Nutt), Gray. A series of specimens collected 

 between Kneeland Prairie and Mad River, almost connecting this 

 species with A. tinifloriifn. One specimen is typical, with stem 

 rising three inches above the ground, bearing six peduncles. 

 Four have stems one or two inches long, bearing only two pedun- 

 cles four to six inches long, lobes of corolla more spreading and 

 brighter yellow. Four have stems barely an inch long, each 

 bearing a single peduncle. 



NEW SPECIES AND VARIETIES. 



^Ranunculus aquatalis, L., var. HISPIDULUS. Emerscd leaves 

 small, three-lobed, the lobes toothed, p^labrous above, the lower 

 face hispid with short, stiff bristles, which extend to the petioles 

 and stipules. Otherwise as the var. heterophyllns. 



In ponds at Jarnigan's, on Mad River, July 10. 



LUPINUS ADSURGENS. t to 2 feet high, perennial, clothed 

 with appressed silky pubescence : leaflets five to nine, as long as 

 the petioles, cuneate-oblong, obtuse, mucronulate; stipules sub- 

 ulate ; racemes rather short ; bracts deciduous ; keel naked, 

 flowers light yellow. 



Western side of South Fork Mountain, July 21. 



^XUPINUS SYLVESTRis. Perennial, stem succulent, 2 to 3 

 feet high, erect, canescently tomentose throuc^hout; leaves scat- 



