326 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [MAY 
branchlets sparsely branched, erect, about as tough as the western leatherwood 
(Dirca occidentalis Gray), cinereous pubescent: leaves terminally oe wi 
sessile, linear to oblanceolate, acute, the larger ones 6°™ in length and 10 
width, densely canescent beneath, upper surface green and becoming partie 
except the sunken cinereous midnerve, margins entire or sometimes remotely 
apiculate: fruiting spikes immediately beneath the foliage, the short peduncle 
oe by 3 foliaceous bracts, curved and slenderly elongated, 5 to 7°™ long, 
ro™™ in diameter, densely flowered: capsules short-canescent all over, 5™™ 
ovoid, acuminate; styles persistent, not longer than 1™™, 2-cleft, each segment 
again divided into recurved lobes: bracts spatulate or obovate, long ciliate 
pubescent; axillary gland persistent, quite prominent and cinereous. 
CUPRESSUS GOVENIANA Gord. 
About sixteen miles southeast of Livermore, Alameda County, California, 
is a mountain commonly known as Cedar Mountain. While collecting on this 
mountain during the latter part of May 1903, I did not find any true cedars, but 
found near the round-topped summit quite an area densely covered with a species 
of cypress. It was too late for staminate flowers, but an abundance of mature 
cones was collected. The trees are mostly of a young generation, of all sizes 
from 34" to 5™ high and cone-bearing, widely branched from near the ground, 
the terminal portion of the stem much exceeding the shortest uppermost branches; 
leaf branchlets slender, more or less spreading: leaves without conspicuous dorsal 
pits, acute, shining green: cones globose, 13™™ in diameter; the 8 unequally 
sized scales grayish-white on the outside, almost smooth or only with low umbos: 
angular, prominently margined or winged along the lateral edges above 
the middle, reddish-brown and frequently somewhat glaucous, with a resiniferous 
or. 
This species was distributed under no. 4487. There is some doubt as to 
this determination, and its relationship to the other closely allied species is not 
as yet clearly understood. These flourishing trees might have been planted at 
some very early date. 
MUHLENBERGIA DEBILIS Trin. 
The distribution of this handsomely tufted grass is given from Texas to 
southern California. In May 1902 the writer found it in abundance on a dry 
gravelly hillside near Santa Barbara, California. In June 1903 a few dwarfed 
specimens were discovered on a cliff at Carmel Bay. The latter locality is its most 
northern known limit along the coast. ' 
GOVERNMENT LABORATORIES, 
Manila, P. J. 
