(OXTRIIUTIOXS ON SOUTHERN ( ALIFORNIA BOTANY 

 By I. M. Johnston 



Carcx glohosa Bott, Proc. Linn. Soc. 1:259 (1845). 



\'cry abundant on the moist shaded side of Fern Canon just 

 north of Brown's Fats, alt. 4000-4500 ft., Upper Chaparral Belt, 

 San Antonio I\Its. Johnston 21 j2. Determination verified by Mr. 

 K. K. Mackenzie. We have also noted the plant at the Charcoal 

 Camp. alt. 4500 ft., in Cucamonga Canon. Immature specimens 

 in the Pomona College herbarium collected by Professor Crawford 

 (No. 725) on Sept. 1, 1916 in the "mountains north of Claremont" 

 are also referable here. All these stations are on the south slope 

 of the San Antonio Mts. 



Smilacina sessilijoUa Nutt; Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 14:245 (1879). 



A large dense pure colony in marshy ground at Red Hill east 

 of Upland, alt. 1300 ft.. Upper Sonoran Zone, July 4, 1918, 

 Johnston. 



This species and Hypericum jormosum, with which it grows, are 

 strangely out of place in this vallej^ marsh. Their presence can not 

 be accounted for by the supposition that the seeds have washed 

 down from these mountains, while the Smilacina is known only 

 from their far side. It is a curious fact that the only known cismon- 

 tane station for the two rare Lower Sonoran desert species, Cladium 

 mariscus and Muhlenbergia repens, is the same small marsh. A 

 strange mingling of boreal and austral elements. 



Cakile americana Nutt., Gen. 2:62 (1918). 



A single plant found growing in the sand at Abalone Point, 

 near Laguna Beach, July 28, 1916, Craivjord. 



Sedum sp at huli folium Hook, FI. Bor. Amer. 1:227 (1834). 



The following stations have been noted in the San Antonio 

 Mts., where it is found trailing over mossy cliffs in shaded canons 

 in the Upper Chaparral Belt. 



1, Near Weber's Camp, alt. 3000 ft., Coldwater Fk. of Cattle 

 Canon; 2, Day Canon, 3500 ft.; 3, Fern Canon Fk. of San Dimas 

 Canon, 4000 ft; 4, "Lytle Creek near falls, Abrams." 



All the plants seen by me have very pale yellow or white petals, 

 but they do not seem to be otherwise different from the typical 

 flowered northern plant. Due, perhaps, to their pale color Dr. 

 J. N. Rose refered our Day Canon specimens (No. 1644) to 

 5. californicum Britt; but, like all the other collections, they agree 

 very poorly with the original description of that species. 



Lupinus elatus Johnston, Bull. So. Cal. Acad. 17:63 (1918). 



This species has been collected by Mr. F. Grinnel on Mt. Islip, 

 San Gabriel Mts., where he reports it to be very common; also 



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