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274 ANNALS OF THE MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN 
Ranges from Mendocino Co. to Monterey Co., California, Often 
appearing in burned-over areas. 
Specimens examined: 
California: Ukiah, June, 1882, Rattan (G and M); Ukiah, June, 
1884, Rattan (Stanford); near Purdy's Garden, east of Ukiah, 
2500 ft. alt., 3 June-5 July, 1903, Jepson 2247 (Calif.); in hills 
about Scott’s Valley, northwest of Lakeport, Lake Co., 28 
May-2 June, 1902, Tracy 1747 (Calif.); West Point Bridge, 
Calaveras Co., 2300 ft. alt., 7 July, 1896, Hansen 1809 (M and 
Stanford); Knight’s Ferry on the Stanislaus River, Bigelow 
(N. Y.); burned areas in Adenostoma thickets, Rawhide Hill, 
Tuolumne Co., 1400 ft. alt., 17 May, 1919, Williamson (Stan- 
ford); Punch Bowl Road, near Rawhide, 13 Aug., 1916, 
Stinchfield 138 (Stanford); Columbia, Tuolumne Co., 2 June, 
1915, Jepson 6352 (Cornell, M, and Calif.) ; Confidence, Tuo- 
lumne Co., 4000 ft. alt., 19 July, 1911, Abrams 4726 (Stanford); 
beyond South Fork Bridge on road to Hetch-Hetchy Valley, 
4000 ft. alt., 10 June, 1916, A. L. Grant 809 (M and Stanford); 
Mariposa, 17 June, 1892, Congdon (Stanford); dry hillsides, 
Clark’s Ranch, Mariposa Co., 1866, Bolander 6314 (G, TYPE, 
and U. 8.); roadside east of Dry Creek, Kaweah River Valley, 
23 July, 1896, Dudley 1369 (Stanford); Hites Cove, 30 May, 
1883, Congdon (G); Tehachapi, June, 1884, Curran (Stanford) ; 
by Soda Springs stage road, Santa Clara Co., 3 June, 1895, 
Dudley 3997 (Stanford); Tassajara Hot Springs, Monterey 
Co., June, 1901, Elmer 3356 (M. and Stanford); hills, upper 
San Antonio Creek, Santa Lucia Mts., 14-20 June, 1901, 
Jepson 1656 (Calif.). 2 
This is an interesting species related to M. Rattan? in its north- 
ern limit and to M. subsecundus in its southernmost stations. It 
grows in dry open places in the Sierra Nevada Mts., where it 
frequently appears in great abundance following chaparral fires. 
It is extremely viscid, so much so that according to pg 
“house flies are captured when they alight on its stem. 
Sal a strong odor of Nicotiana and is often called «wild To- 
acco.” 
