NEW AND NOTEWORTHY WESTERN PLANTS. Il. 
& 
A. D. E. ELMER. 
In the spring and summer of 1902, while engaged in a collecting, 
trip in western Santa Barbara, eastern Ventura, and portion of 
northeastern Los Angeles counties of California, a number of note- } 
worthy plants were collected as well as new species discovered. Or 
the train from Stanford University to Santa Barbara, where my 
headquarters were made, I was impressed with the surroundings of 
Surf as having peculiar physical characters. Having no time to 
examine the vegetation then, I observed nevertheless a palmlike 
bush with large golden yellow flowers which I did not notice farther 
south. Curious to know this plant, I made a side trip to Surf in 
May, and found its local sand-dune flora the most interesting of all 
the vegetation in the counties visited. Surf is near the coast and has 
a stretch of sand dunes a few miles in length and a half mile in width. 
The breakers are active most of the year, and the winds at certain 
seasons are and strong; at such times the sands are shifting 
almost SEE The temperature is always moderately cool. 
This place is one of the few points along our coast possessing more 
striking peculiarities than the ordinary sea beaches. It is a place 
where the oceanic influences are predominant. One can imagine 
similar conditions on the Santa Barbara Islands off the mainland 
of southern California. It is my conviction that if a critical study 
were made, comparing the island flora with that of the mainland 
such as we have at Surf, a striking similarity would be discovered. 
_ Of the following species, all are described as new excepting the first 
four, and the first seven were collected in the vicinity of Surf. Some | 
of these seven have already been reported from the islands, and the 
others may be assumed to belong to the island flora. 
= the snd hills at hac and it was collected again in the Mohave’ 
\ CALIFORNICA Hary.—This peculiar crucifer I collected . 
