44 MuNnz AND JOHNSTON: PLANTS OF CALIFORNIA 
PENSTEMON ALBOMARGINATUS Jones 
Penstemon albomarginatus Jones, Contr. W. Bot. 12:61. 1908. 
We are able to report the first collection in California of this 
distinct species. We obtained the plant near Lavic, where it 
grew in the deep sand of a wash that ran up between the tongues 
of the lava-flow surrounding Mt. Pisgah. The wash was a stone’s 
throw from the Sante Fe Trail and near the grade crossing west of 
Lavic. The species is very aptly named, for the white margining 
to the leaves and sepals is very striking. It is apparently rare 
and we can get trace of but three other collections: Good Springs, 
Nevada, and Yucca, Arizona, reported by Professor Jones; and 
Jean Station, Nevada, collectcd by Mrs. Brandegee (specimen 
in the herbarium of the University of California). Professor 
Jones collected the type in sand and, as our plant grew in similar 
material, the species is probably arenicolous and is to be looked for 
in sandy places. The type and our collection, M, J & H 4204, 
were both collected in May and were at the time setting seed. 
vy Aplopappus Gooddingi (Nels.) comb. nov. 
Sideranthus Gooddingi Nels. Bot. Gaz. 37: 266. 1904. 
A single plant, M & H 3603, collected on a gravelly hillside 
about eleven miles west of Needles. The present collection is the 
first one from California, but is remarkably like the typical plants 
from Nevada. It is characterized by its perennial root and tall 
strict stems and large and multiradiate heads, which are up to 
16 mm. wide. A. gracilis the nearest relative of the desert regions, 
is a lower annual with ascending stems, smaller (1 cm. or less wide) 
heads and fewer rays, eight to sixteen; its leaves are more setose 
than in A. Gooddingi. 
POMONA COLLEGE, 
CLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA 
