March 31,1911 3' 



with a head of pink flowers supported on a twinin^r stem, five 

 feet long; in the creek Saxifrao;a, No. 296; of slirnbs and trees, 

 Ceanothus No. 285, evergreen and deciduous oaks, and I'inus 

 Sabiniana. This species of Pine, of which I saw some small 

 trees near Monterey last year, ri.ses here to the height of fifty or 

 sixty feet, with a stem of six feet in circumference, and pos.ses- 

 ses none of the regularity so characteristic of the Pine tribe. 

 The branches, which in other pines stand in whorls, are in this 

 species quite irregular (except when young), which, combined 

 with the paucity of its partly bent down, glaucous leaves, gives 

 the tree a peculiar appearance. 



"Early the following morning we ascended the gradual 

 acclivity, and passed through a brushwood entirely composed of 

 Ceanothus, No. 285. At noon we arrived at the edge of a noble 

 Pine forest; a few^ moments rest, during which one of our com- 

 panions shot a deer, enabled me to collect Viola No. 287, Ery- 

 thronium No. 288, Prunus No. 289, Lilium No. 294, Cyclobothra 

 No. 295. The species of Pine composing the forest is princi- 

 pally Pinus Benthamiana, with a few trees of P. Lambertiana, 

 Abies nobilis, and a species of Thuja intermixed, No. 309, Cea- 

 nothus no 284, spreading on the ground, and Cornus florida No. 

 297, were the only plants observed in the pine woods. 



"On our return, through a steep ravine, I found a shrubby 

 Cercis, No. 282, with pink flowers; Prunus No. 283, and again 

 Cyclobothra No. 295. 



296 Peltiphyllu.m peltatum (Torr.) Engler. 

 285 Ceanothus cuNEATus (Hook.) Nutt. 



287 Viola lobata Benth. 



288 Erythroxium Hartwegi Wats. 



289 Prunus demissa (Nutt.) Walp. 



294 Fritillaria recurva Benth. 



295 Cyclobothra pulchella 

 709 Cycladenl\ humilis Benth. 

 284 Ceanothus prostratus Benth. 



297 Cornus Nuttallii Audubon. 



