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Towards the summit three cienegas were explored, two of 

 which comprised a few acres of arable land, and afforded a 

 seemingly precarious livelihood to a few lonely pioneers. At 

 the lower cienega Fremontodendron was gorgeous in its 

 golden bloom, Poientilla Nidtallii was beautiful in abund- 

 ance, with here and there P. glandulosa yaY.Nevadensis and 

 F. Parryi just passing out of flower. Selinum capUellaiiim 

 was flowering in the marshes. In the cultivated grounds at 



I Gilia teniiiflora^ Phacelia Lemmoni^ P. 

 hicolor, P. Mohavensis and P. Davtdsonii grew in more or 

 less profusion; and in the wet lands above the Poientilla 

 reappeared. On the mountain slopes beneath the pines I 

 gathered Velcea Parishii, Calochortus Palmeri, Cerasiis 

 demissa, Pedicularis semibarhata^ Astragalus PnrsMi^ 

 Tetradymia canescens, and Senecio ionophyllus, the latter 

 previously reported only by Prof. Greene from Kern County. 

 Some miners here informed us of the presence of a pitcher 

 plant higher up but the deepening twilight forced us to 

 retrace our steps without being able to verify their report. 



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species mentioned in this paper. 



HISTOKIOAL NOTES ON SOME OALIFORNIAN 



TEEES.— 11. 



By Edwakd L. Greene. 



More than a half-century after Vancouver's writing, some 

 explorers of our owu nationality, entering California from 

 the eastward, were deeply impressed with the magnificence of 

 Q, lobata, and made some record of their observations. 



Fremont, in 1846, traversing the level country east of the 

 San Joaquin, describes the fertile river bottoms as " covered 

 with green grass, among large oaks." And further on he 

 says: *'the tree attains frequently a diameter of six feet, and 

 a height of eighty feet." Ten years after Fremont, Professor 



