12 BOTANY. 



Sanicula bipinnatifida, Dougl. in Hooh. Fl. Bor.-Amer. 1, p. 258, t. 92. Santa Inez and 

 Los Angeles ; February and March. Leaves almost pedate. 



Eryngium PETIOLATUM, Hooh. Fl. Bor.-Amer. l,jp. 251. E. articulatum, Hook. Lond. Jour. 

 Bot. 6, p. 232. Salinas valley ; November. A dwarf form of the jjlant ; only 2 to 3 inches 

 high. 



Peucedanum UTRicuLATUM, Nutt. in Torr. & Gray,Fl. 1, p. 628. Santa Clara to Los Angeles ; 

 February. 



Sambuccs glauca, Nutt. in Torr. & Gray, Fl. 2, p. 13. Tulare valley ; March. This species 

 occurs also in New Mexico and Oregon. 



Cephalanthus occiDENTALis, Linn.; Torr. d: Gray, Fl. 2, p. 31. On the Gila and San Pedro 

 rivers ; June and July. 



CoRETHROSYNE INCANA, Nutt.; Torr. & Gray, Fl. 2, p. 98. Santa Barbara and Santa Inez ; 

 February. 



CoRETHROGYNE FiLAGiNiFOLiA, Nutt.; Torr. & Gray, I. c; Gray, PI. Wright. 1, p. 98. C. 

 virgata, Benth. Bot. Sulphur, p. 23. San Antonio and San Luis Obispo, California ; December 

 and January. Suffrutescent, with a thick woody base. 



Mach^ranthera canescens, Gray, PI. Wright, 1, p. 89. Dieteria canescens, Nutt.; Torr. and 

 Gray, Fl. 1, p. 101. Ojo de Vaca ; August. 



M. canescens, var. latifolia. Gray, PI. Wright, 2, p. 75. Dieteria latifolia, Torr. in Emory's 

 Rep. p. 142. Gila river ; June. 



MACHiERANTHERA TANACETIFOLIA , Nees ; Gray, PI. Wright, 1, p. 90. Dieteria coronopifolia, 

 Nutt. Mimbres ; August. A form with nearly all the leaves bipinnately divided. 



Erigeron canadense, Linn.; Torr. & Gray, Fl. 2, p. 167. Mission of San Miguel, California; 

 December. 



Erigeron subdecurrens. Gray, Mss. Conyza subdecurrens, DG.? Gray, PI. Fendl. p. 78, 

 and PI. Wright, 1, p. 102. Salinas river ; November. 



Erigeron Philadelphicum, Linn.; Torr. (6 Gray, Fl. 2, p. 171. Los Angeles and other 

 places near the Pacific coast ; March. 



Erigeron divergens, var. cinereum. Gray, PI. Wright, 2, p. 91. Los Playas valley, New 

 Mexico ; August. 



Erigeron Douglasii, To7-r. & Gray, Fl. 2, p. 177. Los Angeles ; March. 



DiPLOPAPPUS ERicoiDES, Torv. & Gray, Fl. 2, p. 182. Ojo de Vaca, New Mexico; August. 



GuTTiERREZiA MicRocEPHALA, Gray, PI. Fendl. p. 74, (adnot.) Sauz valley. New Mexico ; 

 August. 



SoLiDAGo Californica, Nutt.; Torr. & Gray, Fl. 2, p. 203. San Luis Obispo and other parts 

 of California ; March and April. 



SoLiDAGO sempervirens, Linn.? Torr. & Gray, Fl. 2, p. 211, var.? with crowded, nearly erect 

 paniculate racemes. It may be only a form of S. Mexicana. Santa Barbara county, California. 



Aplopappus GRACILIS, Gray, PI. Fendl. p. 76. Puerto del Dado, New Mexico ; July. 



Aplopappus Menziesii, To7'r. d Gray, Fl. 2, p. 242. SantaBarbara, California ; February. 

 A form with pubescent leaves ; the same that is noticed in Emory's Report, p. 142. 



Applopapus (§ AcAMPTOPAPPUs) SPH^ROCEPHALUS, Harv. & Gray, PI. Fendl. p. 76, (adnot.) 

 San Felipe ; May. This rare plant is a shrub, from one to two feet high, with elongated branches 

 which bear from one to four large heads. The scarious margins of the involucral scales are 

 lacerate-fimbiiate. The pappus and the very villous achenium are of a brilliant silvery white. 

 Cauline leaves linear-lanceolate, somewhat crowded, six to eight lines long and about two wide. 



