106 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 
“anes and bright-yellow flowers. Got a yellow Lantana. 6 ft. 
high but branched lika the rest. Ruellie peninsularis Rose is 
very common, but the blue flowers scarce as usual, Saw one car- 
noticed variations toward Idria making that genus a vegetative 
form of Fouquieria, This therefor becomes F. columnaris var. 
peninsularis (Rose), which is specifically distinct from splendens 
The form here branches like other shrub genera but the trunk 
tia, 3 ft. high, with linear and rather open leaves. There seem 
tv be 2 species of Agave here besides the long and narrow-leaved 
one with close-set black spines which are inclined to be flexnous, 
flowering stalks over 10 ft. high, 
Oct. 25, 8 a. m. bar. 1000 ft. alt. humidity 90 percent. Clouded 
up some after dark, still and warm last night, Ready to start. 
Vegetation here mostly petaiya, Pringlei and Thurberi and some 
the dryness. Trail poor. Coming up from camp we ascended 
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here as below but Fouquieria less common and broad-leaved and 
Jatropha almost gone. Saw some walnut trees among the oaks 
but no fruit. 2200 ft. alt. humidity 78 % at3 p. m. Fleecy 
