Volume 2 No. 3 



MUHLENBERGIA 



A. A. HELLER, Editor 



LOvS Gatos, California, Dkcrmber 30, 1907 



BOTANICAL EXPLORATION IN CALIFORNIA 

 Season of 1907. I — The Coast Region 



Whenever opportunity offered during- April, May and early 

 June, trips were made to points near home which had not here- 

 tofore been visited by me, or if so, not at that particular time of 

 the year. The expectation was that little of interest would be 

 obtained in a region supposedly well known botauically, but 

 the opposite proved to be the case, as a number of apparently 

 undescribed forms were obtained, and some interesting facts con- 

 cerning distribution noted. 



The places visited, with the exception of Pacific Grove, are 

 all within the limits of Jepson's "Flora of Western Middle Cal- 

 ifornia," and all south of San Francisco. A number of species 

 not reported by Jepson from south of San Francisco, as well as 

 several not in his book were obtained, mention of which is made 

 in the proper place in the notes. 



In 1904 about 300 species were collected in the Santa Cruz 

 mountains in Santa Clara county about Los Gatos, chiefly in 

 the foothills west of the town. This season the work was di- 

 rected to the exploring of the middle Coast Range back of San 

 Jose, separated from the Santa Cruz mountains by the Santa 

 Clara valley, the width of the valley about fifteen miles. The 

 hills back of Alum Rock Park were visited on April 27th. 



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