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BOTANY. 
Sanicula bipinnatifida, Dougl. in Hook. FI. Bor.-Amer. 1, p. 258, i. 92. Santa Inez and 
Los Angeles ; February and March. Leaves almost pedate. 
Eryngium petiolatum, Hook. FI. Bor.-Amer. 1 , p. 251. E. articulatum. Hook. Bond. Jour. 
Bot. 6, p. 232. Salinas valley ; November. A dwarf form of the plant; only 2 to 3 inches 
high. 
Peucedanum utriculatum, Nutt, in Torr. & Gray, FI. 1, p. 628. Santa Clara to Los Angeles; 
February. 
Sambucus glauca, Nutt, in Torr. & Gray, FI. 2, p. 13. Tulare valley ; March. This species 
occurs also in New Mexico and Oregon. 
Cephalanthus occidentalis, Linn.; Torr. & Gray, FI. 2, p. 31. On the Gila and San Pedro 
rivers ; June and July. 
Corethrogyne incana, Nutt.; Torr. & Gray, FI. 2, p. 98. Santa Barbara and Santa Inez ; 
February. 
Corethrogyne eilaginifolia, Nutt.; Torr. & Gray, l. c.; Gray, PI. Wright. 1, p. 98. C. 
virgata, Benth. Bot. Sulphur, p. 23. San Antonio and San Luis Obispo, California ; December 
and January. Suffrutescent, with a thick woody base. 
Machairanthera canescens, Gray, PI. Wright, 1, p. 89. Dieteria canescens, Nutt.; Torr. and 
Gray, FI. 1 , p. 101. Ojode Yaca; August. 
M. canescens, var. latifolia, Gray, PL. Wright, 2, p. 75. Dieteria latifolia, Torr. in Emory’s 
Bep.p.lA2. Gila river ; June. 
Macharanthera tanacetifolia, Nees; Gray, PI. Wright, 1, p. 90. Dieteria coronopifolia, 
Nutt. Mimbres ; August. A form with nearly all the leaves bipinnately divided. 
Erigeron canadense, Linn.; Torr. & Gray, FI. 2, p. 167. Mission of San Miguel, California; 
December. 
Erigeron subdecurrens, Gray, Mss. Conyza subdecurrens, DCJ Gray, PI. Fendl. p. 78, 
and PI. Wright, 1, p. 102. Salinas river ; November. 
Erigeron Philadelphicum, Linn.; Torr. & Gray, FI. 2, p. 171. Los Angeles and other 
places near the Pacific coast; March. 
Erigeron divergens, var. cinereum. Gray, PI. Wright, 2, p. 9l. Los Playas valley, New 
Mexico ; August. 
Erigeron Douglasii, Torr. & Gray, FI. 2, p. 177. Los Angeles; March. 
Diplopappus ericoides, Torr. & Gray, FI. 2, p. 182. Ojo de Yaca, New Mexico; August. 
Guttierrezia microcephala, Gray, PI. Fendl. p. 74, ( adnot .) Sauz valley, New Mexico; 
August. 
Solidago Californica, Nutt.; Torr. & Gray, FI. 2, p. 203. San Luis Obispo and other parts 
of California ; March and April. 
Solidago sempervirens, Linn.? Torr. & Gray, FI. 2, p. 211, var.? with crowded, nearly erect 
paniculate racemes. It may be only a form of S. Mexicana. Santa Barbara county, California. 
Aplopapptjs gracilis, Gray, PI. Fendl. p. 76. Puerto del Dado, New Mexico; July. 
Aplopappus Menziesii, Torr. & Gray, FI. 2, p. 242. Santa Barbara, California; February. 
A form with pubescent leaves ; the same that is noticed in Emory’s Report, p. 142. 
Applopapus (§ Acamptopappus) SPHiERocEPHALUS, Harv. & Gray, PI. Fendl. p. 76, {adnot.) 
San Felipe ; May. This rare plant is a shrub, from one to two feet high, with elongated branches 
which bear from one to four large heads. The scarious margins of the involucral scales are 
lacerate-fimbriate. The pappus and the very villous achenium are of a brilliant silvery white. 
Cauline leaves linear-lanceolate, somewhat crowded, six to eight lines long and about two wide, 
