LIST OF CEDROS PLANTS. 207 
must be summer, as only a few fruits of the preceding season 
were left to indicate the affinities of the plant. It was first 
published as a Plerostegia (Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. i. 212). 
64. ATRIPLEX CaLrFORNICA, Moquin, in DC. Prodr. xiii. 
98. Frequent near the seashore. The root of this familiar 
western seashore plant has never been described. It is fusi- 
form, an ineh more or less in thickness, several inches long, 
of a deep amber color both without and within, juicy, and 
sweet, with the flavor of beets. 
65. MIRABILIS CALIFORNICA, Gray, Bot. Mex. Bound. 173. 
66. QUERCUS A merely shrubby species of the 
White Oak series; leaves small, spinose-toothed and per- 
sistent; frequent midway up the canons. 
67. Juniperus CEmROsANUS, Kellogg, Proc. Cal Acad. ii. 
37. (See page 197). 
68. Prxvus MURICATA, Don. (See page 197). 
69. ERIOGONUM FASCICULATUM, Benth. Trans. Linn. Soc. 
xvii. 411. 
70. ERIOGONUM MOLLE. Shrubby, the leafy branches a 
foot or two high; leaves oblong, obtuse at both ends, 2—4 
inches long on petioles nearly as long, cinerous above and 
beneath with a dense short velvety pubescence and altogether 
devoid of white wool: involucres few, many-flowered, corym- 
' bose at the summit of stout naked peduncles a foot or two _ 
ong. 
Rocky summits of the extreme north end of the island; a 
species of singular aspect; not in flower. 
71. Ertogonum . An undescribed species with 
white-woolly foliage, apparently suffrutescent, common on 
dry flats back of the seashore, but not in flower. 
