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RUTACEAE 



PTEI.EA CRENULATA Greene, Pittonia, 1: 216. 



No. 7959, collected along the Sacramento about a mile 

 above Redding, Shasta county, where it is not uncommon. The 

 leaflets appear to be quite glabrous except on the midvein. To 

 the writer the odor of the fresh plant is strong and somewhat 

 offensive rather than "aromatic." The type locality is not 

 given in the original diagnosis, but its range appears to be from 

 at least Mt. Diablo, Contra Costa county on the south, to Shasta 

 county on the north. 



POLYGALACEAE 



POLYGALA CORNUTA Kellogg, Proc. Cal. Acad. 1: 62. 1855. 



No. 7915, collected May 31, on wooded hills back of Mid- 

 dle Creek Station, Shasta county, the woody stems erect or as- 

 cending, about two feet high, growing in dense clumps. In Fl. 

 Fran. 93, Greene says: "not reported from the Coast Range; 

 hence not collected by Nuttall, nor known to Bentham, when, 

 unwittingly, he republished Nuttall's species \_P. Californica\ 

 under the new name of P. cucullatay It does occur in the 

 southern Coast Range, however, as attested by specimens in the 

 herbaria of the California Academy of Sciences and of the 

 writer, represented in the latter by a specimen collected by J. H. 

 Barber in Santa Monica canyon, Los Angeles county. 



No. 8103, collected July 14, near Nevada City, Nevada 

 county, along Deer Creek, growing in open places under pine 

 trees, the plants often lower and less erect than those of no. 7915- 

 It was abundant at this place. 



EUrHORBIACEAE 



Croton cai^ifornicus mohavensis Ferguson, Rep. Mo. Bot, 

 Gard. 12: 65. 1901. 

 No. 7647, collected April 11, along the railroad on the edge 

 of the low hills east of Bakersfield, Kern county, where it was 



