in 1905, Mr. H. M. Hall collected it in McCoy’s V 
erably further east in the desert. Palm Springs is | proba 
western limit of its distribution. 
and with it often grows the closely allied P. ou the 
species, in similar places, in the cismontane region.’ In 
ately west of the warm springs, Mr. Wright collected, yeat 
the type specimens of Gzlza maculata, from which alone 1 
species was known. To our disappointment the most careful elem 
search was unrewarded by a single specimen, perhaps because x er 
much of the spring vegetation was already dried up. Great then — ite 
was ny gratification, shortly after my return home, at finding 
among some desert plants, sent me for identification, specimens 
of this rare little Gilia, marked “very abundant.” They were 
collected by Mrs. Charlotte M. Wilder, a botanist whose keen 
powers of observatian have led to many fortunate discoveries. 
She had gotten it on the sands of the Whitewater, about half 
way between the station of that name and Palm Springs. 
A most interesting locality is Tauquitz canyon, as it is now 
called, but which was formerly known as West canyon. It is a 
deep cleft in the scorched hills west of the village. Over the 
great blocks of stone which fill its narrow floor, pours down the 
stream of cold water which supplies the needs of the villagers. 
At a distance of little over a mile from its mouth, further explo- 
ration is prohibited by the closing in of its precipitous walls, 
over which the water drops in a charming cascade. It is filled 
with a luxuriant growth of characteristic desert plants, shrubs, 
and herbs both annual and perennial, and its short distance is 
the type station for seven species. 
Brandegea parviflora, the first to be described, is no longer 
to be found here, but several botanists have recently obtained it 
in places farther east in the desert. Here Mr. Wright collected 
the specimens on which Micrampelis leptocarpa was founded. 
Field study at the type station convinced us that it was a leaf 
