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The Plant World. 



Several important trips Were made to interesting parts of 

 the region. The earliest was through the San Gorgonio Pass to 

 the western borders of the Colorado Desert. The localities 

 visited were the Arroyo Blanco, or Whitewater River, and Agua 

 Caliente, now known as Palm Springs. On this trip Parry and 

 Lemmon collected Dalea calijornica east of the pass, Nolina 

 Parryi on the dry, rocky ridges south of the point now marked 

 by the Whitewater section station, and Phacelia campanularia and 

 Cheilanthes viscida on a rocky hill on the left bank of the White- 

 water, and perhaps two miles from its exit. The several canyons 

 also yielded the type of Astragalus tricarinatus, and somewhere 

 in the region was collected Mentzelia involucrata. At another 

 time our two botanists ascended Cajon Pass, and explored the 

 desert base of the San Bernardino Mountains as far as the 

 Mojave River. At the summit of the pass they found a showy 

 little Gilia, which Dr. Gray named in honor of Mrs. Parry. A 

 small-flowered species, Gilia Lemmoni, was collected in the same 

 region, although more abundant on the other side of the range. 

 Another humble herb gathered at this time became the type of 

 Lemmonia, sl genus still monotypical. 



May 29th, Parry, Palmer and Lemmon and eleven friends 

 ascended San Bernardino Peak by way of Mill Creek. It was 

 probably on this trip that Collinsia Parryi, and C. Childsei, 

 named for one of the party, w r ere discovered; and either then or 

 at some later period Eriogonum saxatile was found in Mill Creek 

 Canyon. In July a visit was made to the Bear Valley region, 

 the party going up City Creek and following the crest of the 

 mountains to Holcomb Valley, where two days were spent in 

 botanizing. In this neighborhood were collected the type 

 material of Allium Parryi, Astragalus lectulus, Trichostema 

 micranthum, Calyptridium Parryi, Pentstemon caesius and Ivesia 

 argyrocoma. In the same month Dr. Parry made a visit to the 

 mountain ranch of Ring Brothers, at the head of Edgar Canyon, at 

 an altitude of over 4,000 feet, and not far from the present sum- 

 mer resort of Oak Glen. Here, in the rich soil of a cienega grew 

 a fragrant yellow lily, afterwards named by Watson in honor of 

 its discoverer. This lily was formerly very abundant in th e 

 numerous cienegas in the neighborhood of its discovery, but has 

 now disappeared by the reclamation of agriculture. It is, 



