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CrEpis inTb:rmkdia Gray, vSyn. Fl. 1: Part 2. 432. 1878. 



No. 8322, collected May 23, on the edge of a small dry peat 

 bog in the Sierra foothills west of Bishop, Inyo county, in gran- 

 ite sand. The pappus is white in these specimens, the imma- 

 ture akenes yellow, a little narrowed above. If the Rocky 

 mountain plant is the type of this species, our plant is possibly 

 distinct. 



AMBROHIACEAE 



Hymknoclea MONOGyra T. & G. Mem. Am. Acad. II. 4: 79. 

 1849. 

 No. 8224, collected May 10, along the base of the Sierra 

 foothills about three miles south of Bishop, Inyo county. A 

 straggly branching shrub four or five feet high, the bark whit- 

 ish. It is quite different in appearance from H. salsola^ col- 

 lected last year near Bakersfield in April, a species which in 

 Bot. Gaz. 37: 271, Professor Aven Nelson says "comes into 

 blossom in August." The type was collected "along the valley 

 of the Gila." 



IvA AXILLARIS Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 743. 181 4. 



No. 8334, collected May 25, on the rising plain in the ex- 

 treme southern part of Mono county, near the Southern Belle 

 mine. These plants are pubescent, the hairs on the stem some- 

 what tangled, those on the leaves appressed. The involucres 

 are almost entire. The type was collected "in upper Louisiana." 



CARDUACEAE 



TuMiONELLA MONACTis (Gray) Greene 



No. 8263, collected May 15, on the hills near the county 

 hospital at Big Pine, Inyo county. Very common there as well 

 as among the Sierra foothills near Bishop, in granite sand. 



