9° Muhlenbergia, Volume 5 



In the Botany of California, 1: 168, the following note is 

 fonnd: "The fruit more nearly resembles the peach than does 

 that of any other of our species. This whole section [Emplec- 

 tocladus], indeed, of five species confined to the interior of the 

 continent and to Mexico shows the nearest approach in the 

 American flora to the old genus Amygdalus of the Old World." 



One cannot help wondering why the people who recognized 

 the relationship of this plant to Amygdalus should persist in 

 calling it a plum. But then when we remember that most bot- 

 anists still include both plums and cherries in the same genus, 

 this position need not cause much surprise. 



The plant was named in honor of Dr. C. L. Anderson, who 

 at one time lived at Carson City, and collected plants in that 

 vicinity between 1863 an( ^ 1866. This was one of the numer- 

 ous plants he sent to Dr. Gray at Cambridge to be named. 



We do not know the exact limits of its range, but in Zoe 4: 

 151, Mr. Brandegee says it "grows scattered through the Sage 

 Brush nearly to Susanville, California," and Coville, in Cont. U. 

 S. Nat. Herb. 4: 90, records it from as far south as Walker Pass 

 on the eastern slope of the southern Sierra Nevada in Kern 

 county, as well as to the east of that place in the Panamint and 

 Coso mountains in Inyo county, California. I have coTected 

 it in the upper part of Inyo county in Owen's valley. 



In point of distribution, so far as known, it is confined to a 

 narrow strip in western Nevada and eastern California, extend- 

 ing on the north to Susanville, Lassen county, California, and 

 cm the south to lower Inyocounty, a distance of some 300 miles, 

 and is most plentiful in the region where it was first discovered. 



Emplectocladus fasciculatus Ton. the type of the genus, 

 and the only other species named under it, is a species of much 

 more southern distribution, occurring from southern California 

 easl to southern Utah. Fremont first collected it in either south- 

 ern California or southern Nevada. The flowers are said to be 

 very small, white, the petals being elliptical-lanceolate in fertile 

 flowers and ovate in sterile ones. The fruit is apparently the 

 same in appearance as that of E. . indersonii but the stone is 

 said to be subglobose, smooth, obtuse on both margins 



