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top of the ridge above Moraga Valley, near Redwood Canyon. They 

 were not very close to other plants of the same species bearing 

 yellow flowers. — Harriet P. Kelley. 



The Southernmost Known Station for Viburnum ellipti- 

 cum. — This plant grows near Sonoma, in the first little canyon to 

 the left when one has passed El Cerrito Ranch, along the road going 

 north between Buena Vista and Sonoma town. It is found two miles 

 higher up along the same road, and has also been found near Sebas- 

 topol. In flower it is a very beautiful bush, entirely covered with 

 waxy white flowers in umbels, reminding one very much of the 

 Laurestinus, the common evergreen shrub of the gardens. Viburnum 

 ellipticum is ten to twelve feet high, with the bark dark on the old 

 stems and light brown on the young branches. These are opposite, 

 and so are the elliptic leaves, which are dentate, or sometimes entire, 

 and deciduous. The fruit is about two lines long and flattish. I have 

 not seen any ripe fruit. My neighbor says it is reddish or brown. 

 This species is flowering in May. — R. Kuhn. 



Field Notes From Sonoma County. — Fruits of Viburnum 

 ellipticum I have not yet found. My neighbor said that possibly 

 some animal had eaten them. In any event, my attention was called 

 to the forays of ground-squirrels. They collected the seed-pods of 

 Viola pedunculata (Yellow T Violet), for I found heaps of pods near 

 the hole in the meadow at El Cerrito Ranch, and they must have 

 collected the pods of Calochortus luteus (Yellow Mariposa Lily), 

 also. Last year I found Malus rivularis (Oregon Crab-apple) along 

 the creek on the road to the Petrified Forest, not far from the 

 Forest, on the Santa Rosa side of the moutains. To-day (May 29, 

 1914) I found in the mountains near Bismarck Knob a beautiful 

 plant of Antirrhinum virga (Snapdragon). Another find of inter- 

 est I may add: Bellardia trixago (Lousewort) grows very profusely 

 along the roads and even in the fields between Sonoma and Napa, 

 mostly east of the boundary-line between Sonoma and Napa 

 counties. — R. Kuhn. 



Phellopterus littoralis Schmidt. — In a package of Umbelli- 

 ferae from the North Coast Ranges I find Phellopterus littoralis, 

 which is to be recorded as an addition to the flora of California. 

 This species was collected by Mr. Davy, formerly Assistant Botanist 

 of the College of Agriculture, University of California, at Eureka 

 and again at Crescent City. It is a plant of sea-beaches, growing in 

 sandy places on small dunes. The leaves lie prostrate, and in time 

 become, more or less covered by wind-driven sand. The umbel, 

 which is about two and one-half inches broad, rests on the sand, is 

 hemispherical in shape, and very compact. The body of the fruit is 

 dorsally flattened, but the five broad wings of each mericarp give 

 to the fruit a subglobobe outline. This species has long been known 

 on the Oregon and Washington Coast, whence it ranges northward 

 and westward to the Asiatic Coast. — W. L. Jepson. 



