January, 1919, number of the Bulletin of the Southern California 

 Academy of Sciences, describing the occurrence of Holocantha 

 emoryi near Ludlow, Cahfornia. Inasmuch as this species seems to 

 be very rare in California it may be of interest to record the occur- 

 rence of this peculiar plant at two other localities that have come to 

 my attention. 



In February, 1918, a prospector gave me a specimen of a plant 

 that was unknown to either of us. He had obtained it in the wash of 

 a long broad valley that extends from the vicinity of Goffs, on the 

 main line of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway, in San Ber- 

 nardino County, southward to Ward station on the branch line of 

 the same railway from Cadiz to Parker. The locality was given as 

 about 20 miles south of Goffs. The specimen was sent to Miss Alice 

 Eastwood of the California Academy of Sciences, at San Francisco, 

 who identified it as Holocantha emoryi. 



In December, 1919, I was shown a specimen of the same plant 

 by another prospector who had obtained it along a road that leads 

 southward from the National Old Trails road about 25 miles west of 

 Tudlow. This locality is west of the one mentioned in the Bulletin. 



I may state that I have traveled all of the important roads of the 

 desert in San Bernardino County in connection with field work locat- 

 ing desert watering places, and I have never seen Holocantha emoryi 

 growing." 



COLLINSIA CONCOLOR Greene. This species originally described 

 by Greene from specimens collected in southern San Diego Co., 

 has been found growing in great abundance near the top of 

 Pacoima Canyon, Los Angeles Co., by C. /. Marvin. While some 

 other Collinsia may show somewhat villous calyces the calyx seg- 

 ments in this species are comparatively large and the filaments 

 may be classed as glabrous as only a few microscopic hairs are 

 to be found near their base. 



Vallium montigenum n. sp. ^''■ 



Bulb about 10 mm. in diameter, without definite reticulation; 

 leaves 2, 10-12 cm; long, linear and withering early; scapes 1-2 dmi. 

 high, terete and finely striate when dried; bracts 2, broadly ovate 

 with an abrupt acuminate tip 5 mm. long; pedicels 12-18 on pedicels 

 1-2.5 cm long; perianth segments pink to dark reddish purple, 12-15 

 mm. long, and 5 mm. wide near the base, all lanceolate acuminate 

 but the inner 3 slightly narrower below and longer acuminate above; 

 stamens and filaments 10 mm. long; filaments not deltoid; capsule 

 sballowly 3-lobed, without crests, the central depression between the 

 lobes usually purple tinged. Common on canyon slopes inlhe San 

 Gabriel and San Antonio Mts. No. 2974, Coldwater Canyon, San 

 Gabriel Mts., type in the author's collection. 



This is a well known plant and has heretofore been distributed as 

 A . Parishii or A . Breweri, but it differs from both in the capsules and 

 in the perianth which in this species is comparatively ver\^ long. The 



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