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In the dry bed of a winter lake, situated in the mountains 
south of Uncle Sam Mountain, Lake County, July 28, 1892. 
The radical leaves are imperfectly known, but are at least 
4inches long. The bractlets usually surpass little or not at 
all the calyx, but some simulate the bracts in size, exceeding 
the head. Its nearest ally is H. articulatum, Hook. (Lond. 
Journ. Bot. vi. 232, 1847), originally collected by Geyer “at 
the stony edges of the Spokane River, and Skitsoe and 
Coeur d’Aleine Lakes,” Idaho. It differs from that in its 
prostrate habit, numerous small heads, longer styles, and 
winged bractlets. 
SANICULA BIPINNATA, Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. 347. 
Credited to the Sierra foothills, from Kern County to Butte. 
It is also common in the foothills of the Coast Range, bor- 
dering the lower Sacramento Valley; in the shade of oaks, 
flowering in March. 
Carum Kenioaer, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. vii, 344. This, 
known to be frequent about San Francisco Bay, is one of the 
most common and widely distributed of summer plants in 
the hills of the Coast Range in the counties of Napa and 
Solano. 
Lepror#nia Caxirornica, Nutt. var. dilatata. Leaves 
nearly as in the type; peduncles at summit abruptly widened 
into a disciform dilatation, 9 lines in diameter; fruit 7 lines 
long, 5 lines wide, narrowly margined, oil-tubes anasto- 
mosing. Bolander, n. 6526. 
A MONTH ON THE SHORES OF MONTEREY BAY. 
By Marsuatt A. Howe. 
The name “Monterey” has a magic sound to the botanical 
student as well as to the historian and the fashionable tourist. 
Being for a long time the largest settlement on the coast and 
the capital of “Alta California,” it was a natural stopping- 
place for the early botanical explorers. Here, in 1791, were 
Thaddeus Haenke and Luis Nee, the first botanists to touch 
