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plant is as д little known, we append the following 
n from Elwes’ noble monograph :— 
Cage fr om Dr. Parry’s account of the plant : :— 
% In one of my last botanical excursions in the 
vicinity of "San Bernardino in July, 1876, I accepted 
an oft-repeated invitation to visit the intelligent 
brothers J. Е, and Е. М. Ring in their mountaia 
sion of the South Pacific Railroad. In one of these 
mountain-slopes afford an extensiv 
range long after the herbage of the — has 
dried up 
up with rank Willow and Alder growths, and occa- 
sionally — into small meadows of c 
and sedge 
у PY а the 1 жас -— sadjoining, there 
was the usual dis Cal rgree 
shrubbery, ties ait "eth tbe Adenostoma 
(which, under the name of 'chamisal, is 
largely 
в. 42,—ииом PARRYI: FLOWERS CITRON YELLOW, FRAGRANT, (ж >. 208) ee 
retreat near San Gorgonio Раве, Leaving the broad 
he Santa-Anna Valley 
the -— 
ardino range, our , 
after crossing Mill Creek, hugged the (ут bor- 
ME the Upper Yucaipa valley ; о by а more 
ascent in a nearly direct easterly course, we 
"ibit an e benc 1 with Pine and 
groves, overlooking A broad sweep of the San 
Gorgonio Pase, tow tiaveraed by the eastern exten- 
2 à s е 
“s In scattered groves of Pinus Coulteri, the ground 
was strewn with the maasive cones of this и 
ФА ite dense scales armed with formidable 
ooked spines, Many of the cones were fully 
б inches in diameter, with a length of 9 aches : 
*The few perennial wat et with 
are mostly confined within deep and i 
icon but more frequently scanty springs осте 
out from beneath deep layers of porous strata, ап 
spread out into boggy marshes, generally choked 
used for fuel), the Holly-leaved Cherry (Prun 
ilicifolia) exhaling a strong odour of bitter Cie 
the Heteromeles ы УШЫ, with glossy varnished 
leaves, and a eite form of ‘ California Lilac’ 
crassifolius), with thick leathery foliage. 
The dull — hue which everywhere characterises 
the moori 3 is at this time of year partly 
r. by brilliant scarlet festoons of Pentstemon 
cordifolius trailing over acjoining bushes, or the less 
showy blossoms of P, ternatus. 
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