WESTERN BOTANY NO. li 129 





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10 feet high, with Very many clusters of purple-black buds which becoim- 



golden- vellow in flower.- The leaves are 2 feet long and not congested, 



^they even become -4 feet long' at times and six inches \nde. The prickles 



=• are low, a few- mm. long, and J4 to >4 inch apart. Leaves conspicuously 



'^lanceolate, also narrowed below but widest at very base. It is a very 



lately Agave, the most stately of them all. It also grows on we rocks 



On the 'eastern slopes of the Laguhas. - ' ,/ . ij li , 



■:■ ■ Rhachidosperraum Mexicanum Vasey. To the last Vasey held tu;ii 



this was ndr Jouve piibsa, but most ever>'one elsa considers them Ae same. 



The plant abounds on flie Coast from Todos Santos around ' " " • 



: I^Jolina Beldingii (?). This grows on slopes of the i^aguna m.»un- 

 tains in the brush. The leaves are 3 feet long by 3^^ inch wide, an.! 



long and grass-like. 



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name 



rizonica has pod 



seeds' „a re the sat 



nsn No. 8087 calleu ^ci^v.^* ^j ^ - - i-- . 



Johnston's t>-pe. The same name is Thomber 



thv 



sdiinv 



from Wilmot, Arizona, and is Fendleri. Same name (given by \\ales a^ 

 polycarpa) from Imperial valley No. 64700 is PfVcarpj;-- ^ - rM\."ro,^w 

 ^ SiiS^ondsia CaSomica. At Todos Santo^ find that pistu ate fom^ 



are rare except on northern slopes of hills.. The IP^^ ^''^l~l-^ 

 high, and are very much branched. The fruits raiige from_ ovate-acumina.t 

 to^lmost oval-o7ate. No such extravagant development is found^m da. 



'^'lAS^Agrica John^ton I. only . ^nn. of Feadl^H. lackin, 



Euphorbia perina Wat is only a form of pol>xaipa. 



Brandegee puts it in E. pocarpa. , -.,. 



Quercus Brandegei Goldman. The type locality for this ree is M^ra^ 

 flores^ There it is a big tree 5t) to 60 feet ^^'S^' ^P^^^^l-g -t ver^ 

 widely with few and very big branches, has the ^abit ^^ ^ ^^^it 

 The Laller branches have very smooth old bark, ^he kaves are 



above. The cups are deciduoas in ^^^.^^^^^ :^ .^'^^ 

 into bloom on the first of March, 1928 The 8^°?^^ J^ , ^j ^^^ ^t 

 young plants from tbe last yearns crop of nuts. It ^^ J^^ °"^J ^^ V . : 

 Miralores, and abounds along the river ^an^ ^^^f ^^ ^tbitat is in 



In the Cape region are "^^y^^^'^-^^^^T^SIl life zone, but their 

 the high mountains at the upper edge of the /ropica me ^ ^ 



tough and shiny leaves enable fhem to exist at much ^^^^' f^^^^^^^^^ 

 v,e°find them straggling along^ the stream ^^"^^^^^^/Xrays T-^^iS a 

 tions as far down as the sea, but the^ j^.^^^^^^Q^rrcS^^^^^^ Gold- 



moist soil. At Todos Santos grows a live f S^J^'f "^^^ J^^ Cota 

 man. in a wash that seems to l)e ihe ^^^, ^. ^^^^/^ f^ high, with^ 

 ranch and at Miraflores. It is an erectish tree ^bout^u i k , 



white bark above, wbiA breaks up below in to^na^^^^^^^ ^^^, 



At the Cota ranch it has leaves oTt^ ^^^^^^ ^lTA%^, consumed 

 gins. The cups hs.ve very low warts. The nats were ^ ^ , 



nimals, 



