December 30, 1907 2S5 



< EsC^SCHOLTziA OKANUi.ATA Cireenc, Pittonia, 5: 235. 190,5. 



i No. 8571, collected May 28, on the hillside overlookinj^^ 



Crystal .Sj)iings near the Half Moon Ray road, in dry jj^ravelly 

 ground. Distributed as E. crocea^ which it resembles only in 

 the deep orange of the fresh flowers, being a much more spread- 

 ing and branched plant with more finely dissected leaves. The 

 type came from "fields and waysides about Stanford University, 

 California," collected by C. F. Baker, December i, 1901, no. 174. 



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..vKsCHSCHOLTziA CRacEA Bentlfc- Trans. Hort. Soc. IL 1:407. 



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No. 8607, collected May 31, on Copernicus Peak, Mt. Ham- 

 ilton, Santa Clara county, eleVation 40DO feet, on a grassy slope 

 facing the west, iltwas very abundant there, dotting the slope 

 with the gorgeous orange of its flowers. The flowers as a ruJe 

 are smaller in this form than in the one common on the jijlis 

 and in the valley about Los Gatos. . . 



Platystemon communis Greene, Pittonia 5: 169. 1903. 



No. 8445, collected April 20, near Lake Merced, San Ma- 

 teo jcounty, elevation a;bout 400 feet, in sandy.soil, growing nsr* 

 ally in spreading mat-like ma-sses. The carpels are pubescent 

 with scattered appressed hairs. The outer stamens are a little 

 shorter than the inner, instead of "half the length of the inner," 

 as in the type, which was collected at San Rafael, Marin count}-. 



: /.BRASSICACEAE Lindl. Nat. Syst. Ed. 2, 58. 1836. 

 Arabis BreWERI Wats; Proc. Am. Acad. 11: 123. 1876. 

 ;■ M<)V 8617, collected May 31, near the summit of Mt. Ham- 

 ilton, Santa Clara county, elevation 4000 feet, growing in the 

 crevices of rocks, and rather plentiful. It 'is- a low tufted and 

 ■■matted perennial,, de;cidedly woody at the base, the type collected 

 by Brew^er on Mt. Diablo, Contra Costa county. 



Cardamine 01.IGGSPERMA Nutt.^ T. & G. Fl. X. .\. 1:85. 1838. 



rtj; No. 8484, collected April 27, near the creek above Alum 



Rock Park, Santa Clara county, elevation about 700 feet, grow- 



