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Euphorbia eriantha Benth. 

 Euphorbia micromeria Boiss. 

 Euphorbia polycarpa Benth. 

 Euphorbia, sp. 

 Phyllanthus, sp. 



SiMMONDSIA CaLIFORNICA Nutt. 



Ficus, sp. 



Anemopsis Californica Hook. 

 Loranthus, sp. 

 Muhlenbergia debilis Trin. 

 BouTELOUA polystachya Benth. 

 Bouteloua oligostachya Torr. 

 Cenchrus Palmeri Vasey. 



II. Pa paver ece of the Pacific Coast. 



As lone; as species exist and naturalists are found to study 

 them, there will probably be differences of opinion as to 

 their limits, and it is far easier and more gratifying to the 

 personal ambition of a botanist to name and describe forms 

 which shall thenceforth bear his name as an appendage, 

 than to patiently study variations from many localities, 

 and probably end by finding them all run together under 

 older names. 



There is, however, a limit to the multiplication of 

 species after the manner which the lamented Engelmann 

 calls "the too common mistake of adopting the characters 

 of a single individual as those of the species," which is soon 

 found in the minute description necessary for the sep- 

 aration of forms, leading continually to the more mi- 

 nute description of other forms which will not exactly 

 agree with any of those already described, a process which 

 very shortly reaches far bej-ond the sublime. In Esch- 



