THE WEST-AMERICAN SCIENTIST. 
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OUR PENINSULA FLORA. 
Visiting on the 4th instant, the 
low mesa of the peninsula in front 
of the city of San Diego, the 
shrubs of the southern portion 
were found to consist mainly of 
Rhus integrifolia,growing in dense 
clumps a few feet high. Sim- 
mondsia Californica of only a foot 
in height, forming thick mats sev- 
eral feet in diameter upon the 
earth, Ephedra Californica, Ar- 
temisia Californica, and tallest of 
all Yucea baceata with trunks six 
feet high, already budded to bloom 
while the other shrubs were all in 
full bloom, except the Artemisia. 
Clematis pauciflora was trailing 
over them with a profusion of 
flesh-colored flowers, and an occa- 
sional vine of Megarrhiza Califor- 
nica in fruit and flower. 
Among the bushes were the 
blue heads of Brodiza capitata,the 
purple Mirabilis californica, kryn- 
itzkias, Phacelia tanacetifolia, Ne- 
ophila racemosa, mosackia glabra, 
Lupinus truncatus and a few other 
flowers, while beneath them grow 
Pterostegia, Tillea minima and 
other inconspicuous plants. 
A few cacti grew along the edge 
of the mesa in company with Ly- 
cium Californicum, Erogonum fas- 
ciculatum, Frankenia, Bigelovia, 
ete., while the space between the 
clumps of bushes was occupied 
the year, though most of the plants 
were earlier than on the mainland. 
The rhus and simmondsia, which 
grow to be fair sized trees among 
the hills in sheltered places, here 
form only low, rounded clumps. 
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