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MUHLENBERGIA 



ADDITIONS AND EMHXDATIOXS 

 Hv S. H. Parish 



Professor Abranis' recent "Study of the vSoutlicni Califor- 

 nia Trees- and Shrubs" (Bull. N. Y. Bot. Gard. (>: no. 21) in- 

 cludes an extended list of the woody plants of that rej^ion, and 

 an account of the distribution of the several species. Yet a few 

 have been overlooked, and of other few the ranges inay be ex- 

 tended. The subjoined list is offered as a supplement to his 

 paper, the species added being those with full place citations, 

 while those without are extensions of range. 



The line which divides a shrub from an undershrub, or 

 from a suffrutescent plant, is not a rigid one, and students will 

 not in every case agree in drawing it. Perhaps it is for this 

 reason that some of the plants in the following list do not ap- 

 pear in that of Abrams. The omission of the Loranthaceae is 

 so marked that they may be of these. Yet it seems impossible 

 to rank such a plant as Phoradendron flavescens other than as 

 a shrub, and it is so called by authors, among them Britton and 

 Brown in the Illustrated Flora. But as regards most of the ad- 

 ditions there is not likeh' to be a difference of opinion. 



XoLix.\ P.\RRVi Wats. 

 The type of this species was collected in 1876, by Parry, 

 near Whitewater, altitude 1300 feet, on the borders of the Colo- 

 rado desert. It is infrequent there, usually solitary, and with 

 poorly developed caudex. On the Mojave slope of the San Ber- 

 nardino range, in the neighborhood of the Morongo King mine, 

 altitude 5700 feet, it is abundant in groves, and with bare trunks 

 J3 4 to 6 feet tall. From the Colorado desert it passes into the 

 ' — Cismontane region along the rough countrv between JSan Jacinto 





