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Pursh, P. azureus angustissimus Gray, and P. Bridgesw Gray, 
were all in flower. a: 
Phacelia humilis T. & G. literally covered the mountain 
slope in many places. 
Hypericum Scoulert Hook. Antelope creek. 
Acrolasia pinetorum Heller, A. Davidsoniz Abrams, and 
A. affinis (Greene) Rydb. were all quite common. At Tehach- 
api an Acrodasia in habit like A. gracilenta, but with a smaller 
flower was common. 
Brodiaea laxa Benth. On the roadside among the live 
oaks. This is the most southern station (with the exception of 
Hollywood, Los Angeles county) recorded for this plant, but it 
very probably occupies the intervening country. A Calochortus 
too immature for determination was found on the mountain top, 
and with it on the sunny slopes under the pines was a /7tz/la- 
ria that appears to be undescribed. 
Fritillaria pinetorum n. sp. 
Stem stout, upright, 5 to 10 inches high, dark green, smooth; 
bulb solid, 1 inch in diameter, flattened above and thickly stud- 
ded with bulblets like rice grains: stem leaves 12 to 15 in some- 
what indefinite whorls, with short interspaces; leaves sessile) 
linear, one-eighth inch wide, tapering towards each end: bracts 
similar but smaller, all usually equalling the length of the flower 
in anthesis: flowers 3 to 7, upright, forming a shallow cup I 
inch wide, a half inch deep, segments dark green, purple tinged 
with lighter mottlings; segments broadly ovate to obovate, ob- 
tuse, erosulate at tip: gland indefinite: filaments attenuate up- 
wards: fruit cylindrical, acutely angled: pedicels erect, 1 inch 
long: radical leaves unknown. 
Mt. Cummings, Tehachapi range, Kern county, Califor- 
nia, at 7000 feet altitude, June 12, 1907, Hasse and Davidson 
no. 1739 (type). Abundant under the pines. 
This species has heretofore passed as /: atropurpurea Nutt. 
but the latter has a more slender stem, nodding flowers, with 
