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a few miles out on the stage road. In Gray’s Synoptical Flora 
this is said ‘to be found from Monterey to San Diego and is 
said to be parasitic on the roots of Eriodictyon, clematis and 
oaks. A few years ago Prof. J. J. Rivers found some speci- 
mens in the sands where Ocean Park now stands. They ap- 
peared to him parasite on the roots of Croton california. The 
plant named Enothera, cespitosa in my county list is Enothera 
trichocalyx, Nutt. A few specimens grow around Lancaster. 
Montia spathulata, Howell, once before found near Manzana, 
a station equally far south, was here not infrequent about 4,000 
ft. alt., and higher up among the pines we gathered a very 
marked form with characters almost sufficient to warrant a 
specific name. 
¥ Montia spathulata, Howell, var. viridis, n. var. Diffuse, 
procumbent, dark green; basal leaves greatly expanded at the 
base of the petiole, broadly spathulate or lanceolate-ovate 1-4 
in. wide above; cauline leaves 1 in. long, very broad sessile, 
deeply obcordate for 1-3 its length; petals white or shehtly 
pink 11-2 in. long; seeds as in the type. Readily recognized 
by its broad bracts, expanded petioles and dark green colour 
which it retains on drying. Type 1507. Hasse and Davidson 
in authors herbarium. Among pine woods 7,000 ft. alt., Big 
Roek Creek, Los Angeles County. MHall’s 1245, June, 1899, 
near Old Baldy Mt.; and 2218, June, 1901, Onstatt’s Valley, 
San Jacinto Mt., are evidently this same variety, though the 
cauline leaves are longer and less connate. 
~ Near the mine alone with Phacelia davidsoni, were found a 
few plants of small flowered Phacelia, which I could not iden- 
tify. Mr. H. H. Bartlett of the Gray Herbarium identified it 
“as a variety of P. humilis, T. & G., and kindly forwarded a 
specimen gathered on Mt. Greyback, by W. G. Wright, in 1880, 
that is identical with mine. 
Y Phacelia humilis, T. & G., var. lobata n. var. Leaves all 
deeply lobed, the lower frequently pinnatifid, the calyx lobes 
linear spathulate; otherwise as in the type. Type 1491, Hasse 
and Davidson, June 7th, 1906, Lowell Mine, 7,000 ft. alt., Los 
Angeles County. Co-types of both varieties in Gray Herb., 
Cambridge. 
“Besides the above, we found new habitats for some 
plants at present considered rare in our district, such as Cer- 
cocarpus ledifolius, Senecio ionophyllus, Greene; Syntrichopap- 
pus lemmoni, Gray; Eremiastrum bellicides, Gray, and Cysop- 
teris fragilis, L.. Emothera rutila, Davidson, supposedly rare 
and loeal, near Shoemakers’ we found abundant on loamy 
