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in the summer, but as the time of the visit was unimportant, I 
ee as soon as I had received the information that Mr. Carl- 
n was there. During my stay in San Francisco I visited the 
ine Academy of Sciences and met Miss Eastwood and also 
Mrs. Brandegee, in the herbarium. I easily made arrangements 
for future exchanges with the institution, and saw a small part of 
the collections, aie ally of Saxifragaceae, the latter valuable on 
account of the forthcoming monograph by Dr. Small and myself 
in the North pao Flora. Miss ee invited us to make 
a trip the following day to Mount Tamalpais. We had a very 
enjoyable and profitable tramp, and it is no wonder that Miss 
Eastwood and other San Franciscans are proud of their moun- 
tain. Ishall not try to describe its flora, as it is outside of the 
scope of the summer’s exploration. 
From San Francisco we returned by way of Los Angeles. 
From the latter place to Salt Lake City we travelled on the San 
Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad, which took us 
through the desert regions of southeastern California and south- 
ern Nevada, a very interesting but inhospitable country, At 
Las Vegas, Nevada, the train stopped for about half an hour, 
which I used in collecting around the station, but I did not find 
more than a dozen species in all. The only woody plant was a 
species of Prosopis. 
We stopped for a day at Milford, in southwestern Utah. 
had intended to spend some time in this part of the state, but I 
thought it scarcely worth the time and effort. The season was 
very dry and the spring flora was altogether gone by this time. 
In this part of Utah very few flowers bloom in the middle of sum- 
mer. Most flowers bloom in the spring immediately after the 
early rains, and a number of shrubby plants, eau composites, 
bloom in the fall from August to November. r these we were 
too early. The specimens we secured from the ek consisted 
mostly of a few species of Cactaceae and Malvaceae. The flora 
of the mountain east of Milford, which we visited, was nearly 
identical with that of the mountains around Salt Lake Ci 
On the twenty-third of June we arrived at Salt cae City 
where we stayed a few days to complete our camp outfit and to 
