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Great Basin, noticed all along the railroad between Laws and 

 Reno. The type was collected "upon the barren plains of the 

 Columbia." 



HYPERICACEAE 



Hypericum concinnum Benth. PI. Hartw. 300, 1849. 



No. 8399, collected June 12, near the summit of Mt. Tam- 

 alpais, Marin county. This is a beautiful plant well worthy of , 

 cultivation, covered as it is with large golden yellow flowers. 

 The plants are low and tufted, spreading. The type is said to 

 have been collected ''in valle Sacramento," but there must be 

 an error, unless Hartweg got it on the Marysville Buttes. Not 

 uncommon at medium elevations in the Cpast Range north of 

 San Francisco. -.iitiii:iki..uy. 



FRANKENIACEAE 



FB.ANKENIA GRANDiFOUA C. & S. Liuuaea, 1: 35. 1826. 



No. 8407, collected July 24, near the Point Pinos light 

 house, Monterey county, in grassy places on the edge of a pond 

 not far from the beach. ; Plentiful, the plants matted- together, 

 rather weak and reclining, less woody, and the leaves broader 

 and thinner than in a specimen from Half Moon bay, San Ma- 

 teo county. -•' ' ^'' 



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ACROLASIA NITENS (Greene) Rydb. Bull. Torr. Club, 30: 278. 



Mentsetia nitens Greene, Fl. Fran. 234. 1891.' 

 No. 8197, coUectecl May 8, on the edge of the sand hills 

 about three miles west of Laws, Inyo countyj- in fine. granite 

 sand. The large flowers are bright golden yellow, open during 

 the middle of the day, from ten o'clock until three, if that long. 

 Plentiful where it occurs, but that is only at intervals in beds 

 of fine sand. The type was collected some thirty miles north, 

 "near Benton, Mono Co." 



