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"about Great Salt Lake and in alkaline valleys westward to the 

 sinks of the Carson and Humboldt Rivers." In the Botany of 

 California it is said to occur "in the San Joaquin Valley, near 

 jthe Sacramento," whatever that may mean. 



DoNDiA CALiFORNiCA (S. Wats.) Heller, Cat. 3. 1898. 



Suaeda Californica S. Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. 9: 89. 1874. 



No. 7794, collected April 29, in low places in alkaline soil 

 near McKittrick, Kern county. The type is from "salt marshes 

 of San Francisco Bay," and is described as shrubby. Our plants 

 are herbaceous, except at the very base, where they are slightly 

 woody, have more flowers, and are less leafy above than the type. 

 It grew in thick clumps, usually not over 18 inches in height. 



ALLIONIACEAE 



MiRABiLiS CALIFORNICA A. Gray, Bot. Mex. Bound. 169 and 

 ^lZ-pl-48- 1859. 

 No. 7644, collected on low hills one mile west of Pampa 

 station, near Caliente, Kern county, April 11. It is abundant 

 on the hills in that region. Our plant is referred to M. califor- 

 nica provisionally, for it is probably undescribed, unless it is 

 one of the species described by Heimerl. in Ann. Conserv. & 

 Jard. Bot. Geneve, 5: 1901; but until that work can be con- 

 sulted the plant in question had better be disposed of as above. 

 A mere reading of the description of Oxybaphus laevis Benth. 

 Bot. Sulph. 44, should show that it and Mirabilis califoi^nica 

 are two different things. 



POKTULAC A(EAE 



Calyptridiiim monandrum Nutt. T. & G. Fl. N. A. 1 : 198. 

 1838. 

 No. 7641, collected April 11, one mile west of Pampa sta- 

 tion near Caliente, Kern count)-, on low sandy hills, where it is 

 abundant. Originally from "St. Diego, California," it has been 

 found as far north as Kernville, in the Sierra, and in Santa 

 Clara count^• in the coast reeion. 



