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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
I thank J.C. Lendemer (NY) and J. Kocourkova (PRM) for reviewing an earlier 
draft of this checklist. This study was funded by the Mediterranean Fund through 
a co-operative agreement between National Park Service and the University of 
California at Riverside. I thank Kate Faulkner and botanist Sarah Chaney of the 
Channel Islands National Park for their unfailing help. I thank Dr. J. Giles Waines, 
director of the UCR Herbarium and Botanical Garden, for his constant support 
of my work. For special help during this study I thank J.C. Lendemer (NY) for 
performing thin-layer chromatography on selected specimens. I thank Shirley 
Tucker for her comments on the original report made to the National Park Service. 
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