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Febiruary ^o^ 1906 i^^ 



P1.ANTAG0 ERECTA Morris, Bull. Torr. Club, 37: 118. 1900. 



Plmitago Paiagonica var. Californica Oreene, Manual, 236. 

 1894; not P. Californica Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. 1: 123. 

 1885. 



No. 7565, collected March 21, at Marysville, vSutter county, 

 in moist clay soil, the plants slender. Its range was given as 

 "abundant on grassy plains and hillsides," meaning in the Bay 

 region of San Francisco. It occurs as far north as Butte county 

 at least, and grows in various kinds of soil, as for instance in 

 sand about Pacific Grove. 



No. 7582, collected March 22, at the Marysville Buttes, 

 Sutter county, in stony ground on the ridge east of South Butte. 

 These plants are dwarfed, have a reddish tinge, and short stout 

 flowering spikes. 



No. 7819, collected May i, in grassy meadows near Keene 

 station in the Tehachapi mountains, Kern county. This also is 

 a stout form and does not look much like the extreme slender 

 ones. 



Plantago scariosa Morris, Bull. Torr. Club, 27: 117. 1900. 



Plant ago niinhna Cunningham, Proc. Ind. Acad. 1896: 202. 

 1897; ^^^ ^' fninima DC. 1805. 



No. 7589, collected April 5, on the sandy plain at Oil City 

 near Bakersfield; Kern county. The species is very abundant 

 in that region, the plants depressed and lying close to the ground. 



No. 7694, collected April 14, on low gravelly hills in the 

 desert about two miles north of Randsburg, Kern county. 



KUBIACEAE 



Galium angustifolium Nutt.; T. & G. Fl. N. A. 2: 22. 1841. 

 No. 7775, collected April 26, about a mile within Kern 

 canyon, Kern county, on steep northerly slopes, the plants with 

 long somewhat woody stems, much branched and difltuse. Nut- 

 tall collected the type at San Diego. 



