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in the Kxetcr Nursery wliere lhc\- survived l)nt three or four 

 years. Lobh returued to California in the autumn of 1854, and 

 from that time up to the end of 1856 he continued t(j send home 

 consijjnments of plants and seeds. In 1857 his engajrement 

 with Mr. W'iich lenninated. He remained however, in Califor- 

 nia, and sent collections of seeds to England from time to time. 

 In 1863 he was siezed with paralysis and lost the use of his 

 limbs; he died at San Francisco in ihe aulunm of the same year 

 ami was l)uried in Lone Mountain Cemetery." 



ALPINE PLANTS— II. 

 Bv P. Beveridge Kennedy 



Phlox Dougi.asii Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 73. 1838. 

 Our illustration shows another of our mountain phloxes at 

 home. It was photographed at an elevation of loooo feet, and 

 had for its neighbors Salix petrophila, Trifolhim monauthiun, 

 Mimiilits impiexus, Sibbaldia prociinibcns^ Elcpliantclla atlolcns^ 

 and several carices and grasses. 



I'it^urc 19. I'hiox J)ougi\i.'^ii lluuk. 



