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grew was damp, not saturated, gravel; a water hole was situated 
a few hundred feet down the canyon and there was apparently a 
meager supply of water from underground sources. On the 
adjacent canyon walls were such typical xerophilous ferns as 
Notholaena tenera, M, J & H 4232; N. Parryi, M, J & H 4236; 
Chetlanthes Feet, M, J & H 4215; C. Covillei, M, J & H 4o15; 
Gymnogramme triangularis, M, J & H 4021; and Pellaea compacta, 
M, J & H 4ozs. 
NOTHOLAENA CALIFORNICA D. C. Eaton 
Notholaena californica D. C. Eaton, Bull. Torrey Club 10: 27. 
188 
The junior author collected a few plants of this fern high upon 
a precipitous south-facing cliff at Deadman Point, about ten miles 
southeast of Victorville. The collected plants were associated 
with an abundance of Notholaena Parryi and with fewer Cheilanthes 
Covillei and Gymnogramme triangularis. This collection now 
marks the most northern station for this species, at least in Calli- 
fornia, and at the same time makes the species first known as an 
element of the Mohave Desert flora. Maxon in his recent dis- 
cussion ( Contr. U. S. Nat. Herb. 17:603. 1916) has cited many 
specimens that show the distribution of this neat little plant. 
Johnston (Bull. So. Cal. Acad. 17: 64. 1918) has recorded a 
second coastal and what is at the same time the most westerly 
known station on the mainland. 
TRIODIA MUTICA (Torr.) Benth. 
Tricuspis muticus Torr. U.S. Rep. Expl. Miss. Pacif. 4: 16: 1857- 
Triodia mutica Benth.; Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 18 : 180. 1883. 
Abundant on a eke pinyon-clad hillside near the Bonanza 
King Mine, in the Providence Mountains, M, J & H 4132. Pre- 
viously known in California only from a collection made in the 
central Sierra Nevada (cf. Jepson, Fl. California 141. 1912). 
Determination by Mrs, Chase. 
AGAVE UTAHENSIS Engelm. — 
A gave utahense Engelm. Bot. King. Exp. 497. 1871. 
Common in rocky places in the pinyon belt of the Providence 
Mountains, M, J & H 4302. This is the “‘ Agave sp.” reported by 
