LORQUINIA 
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While Catalina is a part of Los Angeles County its fauna, like 
that of all the Channel Islands, is more closely allied to that of Lower 
California than to that of California proper. 
NEW PLANT RECORDS 
F. Grinnell, Jr. 
Monardella macrantha Gray. — This plant was discovered in fair 
abundance in aspect of not more than twenty-five feet along the trail 
near Sturtevant's Camp, in the upper Big Santa Anita Canyon. The 
plants were on a north-facing slope of the Upper Sonoran, with many 
Big Cone Spruces and Golden Oak forming quite a forest. They 
were especially attractive on account of their deep red corollas. As 
Hall has pointed out, this group is very plastic and varies to a great 
extent according to environment. My specimens were identified by 
Dr. A. Davidson, to whom specimens have been presented. Others 
will be deposited with Geo. L. Moxley, Stanford University, The 
California Academy of Sciences, and the Lorquin Club Herbarium. 
It has previously been recorded from the San Pedro Martir 
mountains in Lower California north to the San Bernardino moun- 
tains, and many years ago it was collected in the Santa Lucia moun- 
tains of Monterey county by Vasey. This is the first record from 
the San Gabriel mountains. Mr. Charles F. Richter and the writer 
made the discovery on the regular Club field trip, August 12th, 1917. 
Zauschncria viscosa Moxley. — Charles F. Richter and the writer 
collected this in flower on the ridge between Mt. Wilson and Mt. San 
Gabriel on July 29th, 1917. Specimens were shown to Dr. Davidson, 
who considers it a good species. The viscous or slimy leaves and 
their ovate shape are marked characteristics. The various forms of 
Zauschncria are xerophytic and have adopted dififerent ways of pro- 
tection. 
Calochortus invemistus var. montanus Parish. — Determined by 
Dr. Davidson. This was very common on Barley Flats, July 9th, 
1917. The only species of Calochortus noted there. 
WOOD RATS OF THE GENUS NEOTOMA 
Luther Little, 2d. 
The earliest reference in literature to a native Wood Rat of the 
genus Neofoma was by Peter Kalm, who, in 1749, cited John Bartram, 
of Philadelphia, as authority for the statement that he saw a "great 
number" of rats which lived among the rocks in the Blue Mountains of 
Pennsylvania, come out at night and make a terrible noise. 
