62 CONTRIBimONS TO WESTERN BOTANY NO. IS 



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smooth, and turbinate and about 3 mm. long, not angled and with 

 rounded and very short lobes. Flowers white with greenish or purplish 

 midrib raised below, about 2 mm. long, 2-6 to the involucre, with seg- 

 ments^ ablong, and cordate below and not spreading, smooth, much re- 

 sembling those of microthecum. Lowest involucre in the forks. This 

 plant is about as high as E, giganteum and alatum but with the habit 

 of deflexum but more strict. Bracts all minute and smooth aad much 

 shorter than the pedicels. In 1894 I called the attention of the U, S. 

 Geog. board to the misspelling of the name Vergin in official papers. 

 The Vergin river was named after a man by the name of Vergin who 

 once lived in that region, but who is now dead. But this Board seems 

 disposed to perpetuate the false spelling, referring the name to Virgin, the 

 Latin name for girl, which has no significance in this case. 



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Esdischoltzia Califomica is said by K. Bxandegee to be perennial in 



Zoe 1 



roots." But I have gro\vn the 

 found the roots 



Thev 



appearance of being perennial, I will admit 



J^=^chsclioltzia Californica. Very much work has been done on this 



peopl 



ing of the plants. Mrs. Brandegee, who had the best first hand in- 



form 



* .1 11 1 ° "'-"* v-^^yivjjtu iici cxiipiiauc opinion uiiti uiur»t 



01 the so-called specifes were connuent and not good species. Greene, 

 on the contrary, who knew nothing about growing the species, went wild 



I'Je/ en ''''^^'°\ " '''''' "^"'*^'- ^y o^ experience in the field in the 

 ast M) years has convinced me that Mrs. Brandegee was nearer mght 



?e^,^nn ■ 7' . ^""^'^ y'""'^ ^S° ^ ^^^"^ to grow E. Califomica for 

 rt.>f tv • d^t^rminmg experimentally some of these theories. la 



tlnrt fr. ' M "-' '' '^T'* ^^'^'^y' *'^""^^' ^"t seems sufficiently dis- 

 C" IfornTa ^^n'^P r/'"'^- ™'f ^iflora if grown from seeds of the true 

 alwav a hirnni ^'^S^^'""!^ ^^^^^^ ^ h^vc grown it for three years it is 

 in 1; ^^^^^l^""'f^ blooming the first year, and generally the seed starts 



omt IITZ I ^ ^"' '"^^''^ "'^^y *°"'^"<i^ of forms in Cali- 

 bZin. .nd .LrT ^T^ it sur^-ive over the second winter after 

 EsXhdtzia "^^^^^^^^^?""d anyone who has ever seen a perennial 

 tr^ry Cv thJt .'T^^^^ "^ ^^^'^^^ ''^ t^« Syn. Flora to the con- 

 Th^e isIsScL nf P l"\^r^ ^' ^P^"^^ ^^ it grew in California, 

 from ore of thf ;S ^^^^^^^^zia that is a shrub which I think came 

 named '''"^' "'^' '° ^^^^^^ California and which Greene 



Stcllaria and Alsine. 



d?™riM Ji.,1 f:""-!" V °" ^,'?"'>'''« *'^ g™s that those Kb. 



itDow little about it. My study seems to 



species 



good 



