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base of operations. The plants about that place were 

 thoroughly collected during September and part of Octo- 

 ber, at a season when abundant rains had produced lux- 

 uriant growth. From San Jose a collecting trip was made 

 along the eastern base of the mountains and across their 

 western spur, through the mining town of Triumfo to 

 La Paz. Very little rain had fallen in the region between 

 these last places and few additions were, in consequence, 

 made to those already found, but during the journey a 

 short " side trip " into the higher mountains was made 

 from Agua Caliente, and in a few days time the most in- 

 teresting portion of the collection was obtained. 



Few and scanty collections of plants from the Cape 

 Region have been made previous to these trips, and nearly 

 all the species formerly obtained have been re-collected. 



The Cape St. Lucas collection of the Sulphur contained 

 less than twenty species; one hundred and twenty-one 

 are enumerated by Dr. Gray in the Xantus collection 

 made in 1859-60; and a few were collected by W. J. 

 Fisher and others connected with the Coast Survey. 



Mr. L. Belding, while engaged in studying the avi- 

 fauna in 1885, made a small collection including iVo//;/« 

 Beldiiigii and the type of a new Scrophulariaceous ge- 

 nus, Clcvclandia; and Dr. Palmer during the time of the 

 writer's Todos Santos trip made a collection of a hundred 

 and fifty species at La Paz. 



The Flora of the coast is subtropical, and a consider- 

 able proportion West Indian, many of the plants perhaps 

 introduced ; that of the elevated regions is largely So- 

 noran. 



I. Clematis, sp. Common in the hedges of irrigated 

 fields and damp localities, between Miraflores and Tri- 

 umfo. One plant only was found in bloom and that bore 

 staminate flowers. It may be Clematis Dniiiinioiidii T. 

 & G. 



