West AMERICAN SCIENTIST. 
‘Dr. ‘Stearns identifies several specimens from the western borders of 
Solorado Desert, San Diego county, as belonging to this , species; the 
found it apparently rare, around the rock house spring, on the old 
uma and San Diego stage road,—commonly known now as Mountain 
‘is s shrub was found by hh editor, in the spring of cag on 
