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NORTHERNMOST STATIONS FOR TWO C 
CALIFORNIAN TREES 
By WILLIS LINN JEPSON 
The western plane and the Fremont cottonwood art 
monly spoken of as ranging from the lower Sacramet 
southward into Lower California. No definite northert 
stations have ever been assigned either. I have seen the plane 
along the Feather river and on the Sacramento river above its: 
junction with the Feather. The most northerly locality ap- ‘ 
pears to be on the upper Sacramento at Battle Creek, Shasta 
county, according to Mr. Benjamin Macomber, Principal of the 
Redding High School, who writes me that it is alsosaid tobe a 
near Anderson, five miles north of Battle Creek. | 
The Fremont or common cottonwood is very common in 
the upper Sacramento valley, and occurs as far north as Red- 
ding. I have seen splendid individuals on Cottonwood creek, 
Tehama county. 
THE NAME OF THE WHITE SAGE 
The white sage of California was first published’ as Audiber- 
tia polystachya Bentham, but the genus Avdzbertia is now gen- 
erally regarded, and with good reason, as congeneric with Sa/- © 
via. In transferring this species to Sa/vza I called it Salvda 
Californica, the specific name fdlystachya being preoccupied. 
It has now been called to my attention that there is an earlier 
Salvia Californica. The name will therefore be: 
Salvia apiana 
Salvia Californica Jepson, Fl. W. Mid. Calif. 460. 1901; 
not Salvia Californica Brandegee, Proc. Cal. Acad. Il.’ 
2%: 697. 1889. 
Audibertia polystachya Bentham, Lab. 314. 1833. 
Ramona polystachya Greene, Pittonia 2: 235. 1892. 
WILLIS LINN JEPSON. 
