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In the dunes Franseria and Abronia maritima and A. 

 umbellata are seen. 



The blending of Collinsia bicolor is on all the favored 

 nooks toward the Pyramid Head, East End. 



One shrub of Baccharis holds forth alone in the treeless 

 region of the west end; while in the hot days of last Novem- 

 ber in the south arroyos, I came across two or three shrubs 

 which appeared to be a "sp. nov." of Baccharis, according to 

 Miss Eastwood. 



At the far sand reaches of the east end one Atriplex 

 Breweri(?) stands besides the sea; in November a beautiful 

 sight of waving golden bloom eight feet tall. 



A long disputed ciuestion of species of Suaeda was settled 

 by finding a desired development on San Clemente shores; an 

 insular form seen on San Nicolas and Sta. Barbara Islands. 



The little Saxifraga blooms brightened all the arid west- 

 ern regions in November, bursting as by magic through the 

 liard soil; also Eriogonum nudum and E. gigantea were fre- 

 quently beheld; while Atriplex expansa was ever "tumble 

 weed" in the trail, an actual encumbrance. 



A new Malacothrix overhung many an inaccessible gorge 

 in October and November, with its great masses of lavender 

 flowers in atonement for its rank leaves ; another Compositae 

 which was not in bloom, was found in better condition in 

 June and may prove a Hazardia interesting ; also yet another 

 species of Hazardia was discovered in a remote canyon. 



Galium Catalinense was often seen in happy state-climbing ; 

 Lotus Traskiae in some localities, though rare ; a strange Cas- 

 tilleia here flourishes, with rich canary-colored bracts shrubby, 

 two to four feet tall. 



On the main southern flats in May, Plantago Insularis and 

 Oligomeris were common; while Phacelias lay along the trail 

 like bits of fallen sky. 



Lamarkia aurea, the "Knight's Plume" of Catalina 

 waves also here. ' 



An old Lupine which has long gro^m at Catalina and 

 M^iich seem to be a variety of L. truncatus was frequently seen 

 in San Clemente Island also, besides other Lupines which 

 sprang easily in that rich old soil. 



Lavatera assurgentiflora was twice found— one tree eight 

 inches in diameter — looking into the sea from a cliff near 

 IMosquito Harbor; another in a region of Pot's Valley pointed 

 out to me by Johnny; it was a foot in diameter and twelve feet 

 high : low and bent and splitting at base. 



Johnny tells me that formerly there were many "Malva 

 Rosas" as he calls them: some even on the south coast; mostlv 



