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Castilleia Integra. 

 Seymeria scabra. 



Stachys Bigelovii, shade of rock near summit. 

 Poliomintha mollis, 



Cedronella micrantha and pallida (var. parviflora), 

 Silene laciniata var. Greggii, upper slopes. 

 Aquilegia longissima (new to the United States), upper canons. 

 Desmanthus velutinus. 

 Hosackia puberula. 

 Daleafrutescens. 



Oxybaphus aggregates, upper shady slopes. 

 Tradescantia leiandra, shade of rock. 

 Talinum parviflorum, shade of rock. 



Sedum Liebmannianum (new 10 the United States), shade of rock. 

 Cotyledon strictiflora, sides of rocky canons. 

 Hibiscus Coulter i, common on gravelly foot-hills. 

 Heuchera rubescens, upper shady slopes. 



Spiranthes cinnabarina (new to the United States), only one speci- 

 men seen on rocky foot-hill. 

 Evolvulus alsinoides. 

 Asclepias perennis, var. parvula. 

 Cilia aggregata and incisa. 

 Phacelia congesta and integrifolia. 

 Linum perenne, Greggii, multicaule. 

 Eriogonum tenellum on hills, and Wrightii in canons. 

 Thelypodium lincarifolium. 

 Galium microphyllum. 

 Grasses : 



Stipa tenuissima. 

 Lycurus phleoides. 

 Melica mutica, var. glabra. 

 Bromus ciliatus, var. minor, 

 Stipa Jimbriata, 

 Cathestechum erectum. 

 Muhlenbergia distichophylla. 



In arroyos, at the northern base of the mountains, the handsome 

 Anisacanthus pumilus is common, and a new species, Nama Havardi, 

 (Gray), stout and erect, was collected. 



SALT LAKES BASIK 



This barren and desolate tract of alkali land begins at the western 

 base of the Guadalupe Mountains, above Crow Spring, and extends 

 in a south-southeast direction to Eattlesnake Spring, having Sierras 

 Prieta and Diablo to the west, and to the east the Guadalupe Mount- 



