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Volume I. GARDEN No. 4 



MUHLENBERGIA 



A. A. HELLER, Editor 



Los Gatos, California, February 22, 1904 



[All unsigned articles in this journal are by the Editor, and the types of all 

 new species described by him are deposited in his private herbarium, unless 

 otherwise stated.] 



WESTERN SPECIES, NEW AND OLD.— II. 



SaMna Occident alls (Hook.) 



Juniperus occidentalis Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. 3: 166. 1840. 



No. 7166, collected above Donner Lake, near Dormer Pass, 

 Nevada county, California, August 14, 1903. It occurs as 

 scattered individuals or sometimes in clumps of several trees. 

 Although the trunks are thick, it is usually a low, gnarled tree? 

 showing the effect of the winter storms. Timq. Juniperus is rep- 

 resented in this country by J. cojmnunis and several allied spe- 

 cies, distinguished by their subulate leaves in whorls of three, 

 jointed at the base, glandless on the back, and neither appressed 

 nor imbricated. 

 Abama occidentalis (A. Gray) 



Narthecium ossifragum var. occidentalis A. Gray, Proc. 

 Am. Acad. 7: 391. 1868. 



Narthecium Californiciim Baker, Journ. Linn. Soc. 15: 

 351. 1876. 



Abama Californica Heller, Cat. Ed. i, 3. 1898. 



A species originally collected in Mendocina county, Califor- 

 nia, but also found in the Sierras in Sierra county by Lemmon. 



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