164 Muhlenbergia, Volume ^3 



Summary 



The species enumerated in this report are from two widely 

 separated portions of the State, a distance of 550 miles interven-' 

 ing between the two nearest points. Those from the southern 

 part were collected in Kern county, with a few from San Ber^ 

 nardino county at Kramer, in the Mojave desert, while those 

 from the north were obtained in Shasta and Siskiyou counties. 



With the exception of two weeks spent at Sisson, Siskiyoii 

 county, at the foot of Mt. Shasta (and that region yielded several 

 novelties), the places visited were almost unexplored botanically 

 or collections had been made there during some other part of 

 the season. The collection therefore is rich in novelties and 

 rare species. A number of genera exhibit marked characters irt 

 their flowers, but these characters are often much obscured in 

 the process of drying. It has been the writer's practice during 

 the past two or three years to write descriptions whenever pos- 

 sible from the living plants in such cases, and this has been 

 done especially with the genus Lupinus^ which he is studying 

 in particular, the result being that many strong characters are 

 brought out which one never sees mentioned in our books. 

 With the exception of two or three species, the flowers of the 

 new lupines in this collection were drawn up from living ma- 

 terial, the flower fully expanded. 



The month of April and the first week of May was spent at 

 Bakersfield, Kern county, from which place various points in 

 the surrounding country were visited. 



Bakersfield is built on a sandy plain at the upper end of 

 the San Joaquin valley, elevation some 400 feet. To the south 

 and west the plain extends for forty or fifty miles to the Te- 

 hachapi and southern Coast Range respectively, while on the 

 east the foothills are only fifteen miles distant. On the north- 

 east the plain rises gradually for about eight miles until the ele- 

 vation is perhaps 1000 feet, then drops perhaps 200 feet, with a 

 bench a mile or more wide, then another drop of 200 or 300 



