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Dr. Rose finds two new species of Stylopliyllum and 

 strangely enough, one hides in the west end and one at the east 

 end of the Island— S. albidum and S. virens respectively. 



Johnny tells me Viola pedunciilata is singularly fragrant 

 — "like the odor of peaches"; I found only the crisping pods 

 and seeds. 



White flowers, or white with veins of magenta, abound 

 amid the ordinary magenta ones of Mirabilis California. 



A new Astragalus spreads its silver leaves along the golden 

 sands of the West End dunes ; this is to be Robeartsii 

 Eastwood, while A. Nevinii looks out at the "Sou 'west" Arrow- 

 head Point and seems by its very isolation to be preserved for 

 future ages, its shaggy mantle of black hair recalling at once 

 A. Traskiae found on San Nicolas Island, although the latter is 

 a more handsome plant. 



The Mesembryanthemum crystallinum at the west end very 

 properly gives you not a thought beyond recognition of its usual 

 happy style ; but when it leaves its dunes and is .your comx- 

 panion for miles and miles on the outspread uplands, you be- 

 gin to give it more thought and to see that its sway is re- 

 markable. Johnny says it increases yearly, and can recall when 

 it never left the dunes. It now runs almost to the center on the 

 tableland heights, to the exclusion of nearly all other plant-life ; 

 it soaks boots and leggings and makes "time" impossible in 

 its region. 



The little Eschscholtzia ramosa (which could never be 

 confounded with Eschscholtzia Californica by any one who 

 had been familiar with the former in the field, is often met in 

 arid places, six to twelve inches high, its flowers usually not an 

 inch in diameter, with ever a strange glaucous light upon its 

 leaves. 



A tree daisy truly is Encelia Californica found in "Chalk 

 Cliff Canon ; ' ' one to four inches diameter and ten to twelve 

 feet high. 



Euphorbia misera holds a little colony of its own in the 

 most picturesque of all the arrow-head points, where, in a 

 broken edge, it is one to two feet high and one to three inches 

 in diameter, with peculiarly blunted branches and creeping 

 ways. 



Ii? many a moist nook of the great north coast gulches, 

 thrives a Ribes, appearing strangely domestic and robust in 

 these surroundings; becoming tree-like, even twelve feet high 

 and eight inches in diameter, although it is usually shrubby. 



The Prunus, which grows in all parts of San Clemente 

 where it can gain a foothold, should be given specific rank; it 

 is identical with the one at Catalina Island, which is not the 



