114 . Muhlenbergia, Volume 3 a4 
UNREPORTED PLANTS FROM THE VICINITY OF 
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 
By H. E. HASSE 
ARCTOSTAPHYLOS DIVERSIFOLIA Parry. This shrub, at- 
taining a height of 2 to 2.5 meters, with a trunk 2.5 to 3.5cm. 
thick, having a thin, grayish, shreddy outer bark, is not uncom- 
mon in the dense chaparral of the upper reaches in the central 
and western part of the Santa Monica mountains. It flowers in 
June, the racemosely disposed berries ripening to a bright scar- 
let by the latter part of August. Mr. H. H. Bartlett, Assistant 
Librarian, Gray Herbarium, writes that it has been reported by 
Ford from Santa Cruz island, San Diego by Orcutt and Bran- 
degee, Catalina island by Sanford, and All Saints bay by Parry, 
the last being probably the type locality. 
MONARDELLA HYPOLEUCA Gray. In the upper part of 
Topanga canyon, Santa Monica mountains, flowering July and 
August. 
Sawtelle, California. 
THE HABITAT OF POLYPODIUM SCOULERI 
In Zhe Fern Bulletin 9: 40-42. 1901, Mr. S. B. Parish has 
a paper entitled “Southern extension of the range of Polypodium 
Scouleri.”” I chanced upon it recently, and note that in speak- 
ing of this species, he says: “Although this sometimes grows in 
the soil, its usual situation is the mossy trunks of trees.” I have 
collected it on the San Bruno hills, San Francisco, and near the 
shore beyond Pacific Grove, Monterey county, and at both places 
it was growing on large granite boulders in crevices where a 
foothold could be obtained. Both of the localities cited are ex- 
posed to the cool ocean winds as well as to considerable fog, and 
are outside the line of arborescent growth.—A. A. Heller. 
