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Onr specimens, however, are less canescent than Engelmann's 

 original. The type of 6^. Lemmoni was collected in vSierra 

 county. 



Arenaria douglasii (Fenzl) T. & G. Fl. N. A. 1 : 674. 1840. 



Alsitie Douglasii Fenzl, Ann. Wiener Museum (1833 ac- 

 cording to Greene, Fl. Fran. 124). 



Type collected somewhere in the coast region by Douglas. 

 It is well distributed throughout California in both the Coast 

 Range and Sierra, but apparently not in the desert nor in the 

 lowlands in the great interior valley, although found in the hills 

 on its borders. 



No. 7806a, collected May i, on the first ridge west of Keene 

 station in the Tehachapi .mountains, Kern county. Many of 

 these plants are sparingly branched and rather strict. 



No. 8084, collected June 22, on dry banks along the rail- 

 road about midway between Igerna and Weed, Siskiyou county. 

 Here the plants were much branched and spreading. 



RANUNCULACEAE 



Paeonia brownii Dough; Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 27. 1829. 



No. 7994, collected June 8, on the hills west of Yreka, Sis- 

 kiyou county, growing in dry ground, the elevation about 3000 

 feet. The middle segment of each leaf division is sometimes 

 obtuse, the others acute; plant glaucous. The typ'e was found 

 by Douglas "near the confines of perpetual snow, on the subal- 

 pine range of Mt. Hood, North-West America, 1826. FL June, 

 July." 



Isopyrum occidentale H. & A. Bot. Beech. 316. 1840. 



No. 7715, collected xA.pril 18, near Girard station in the Te- 

 hachapi mountains, Kern county, growing in rich loose soil 

 under oak trees in a ravine. Except that the plants are smaller 

 and more spreading, these specimens do not seem to differ from 

 those from about San Francisco, the type locality. It has never 

 been reported from so far south, the farthest being Coburn ^lills, 



