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more thar a few spine-clusters. Fifty years have elapsed with- 
out any further traces being discovered of this supposed species, 
yet it still holds a place in our books. It would seem that the 
time has come for dropping it. en we 
Lomatium Vasey1 C. & R. Cont. U. S. Nat. Herb. 7: 216. . 
George R: Vasey’s type specimen is quoted from the ‘San 
Bernardino mountains,” in Bot. Gaz. 13: 145. It really came 
from the mesas near San Bernardino. ‘The species is a mesa 
plant, rarely arena the lower foothills, and never the moun 
tains. we 
FRASERA PARRYI Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 156. 
The type is said to have been collected “in the mountains 
east of San Diego, on the eastern slope.” This appears to bring 
it into the desert region, and to that extent is probably an error, 
as the plant belongs to the cismontane flora. 
MIMULUS-INCONSPICUUS Gray, Pac. R. R. 4: 120.. 
The: type specimen, in the Gray herbarium, is tabotiik 
“Damp hillsides, Los Angeles, Bigelow, 1854.” It consists of a 
few poor scraps, and Dr: Jepson, who obligingly examined it at 
my request, thought it apparently identical with Dr. Gray’s 
more recently described var. datidens from the vicinity of San 
Diego. . Resident botanists have not yet succeeded in discover- 
ing either ‘Species or variety at Los Angeles, nor does the species 
appear to have been collected in’ recent times: in southern Cat. 
fornia. . ri 
MaALACOTHRIX INCANA T. é. .G..FI, N. ~~ 2: 486. , Re iN 
. Nuttall is reported to have collected; the typeof, nes species 
on: “an island in the bay of San Diego.” ‘The place‘intended js 
probably the Coronados Islands, beyond the Bay-.of. San: Diego, 
aid belonging to the Mexican State of Lower-California. - The 
plant has been: rediscovered in recent times (886) on the island 
of — ery | os at 
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