Erythea (Volume 2); A Journal of Botany, West American and General (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: 62 CALIFORNIAN FIELD NOTES. The spring annuals had here almost disappeared; only occasional remnants of Gilia and CEnothera were found in bloom among the withered remains of Glyptopleura setulosa, Castilleia plagiotomia, and other characteristic desert plants. In the shade of the sycamores and willows which here clothed the banks of the stream Epipactis gigantea was flowering profusely, and Glycyrrhiza glutinosa, a rare plant with us, was locally abundant on a sloping bank. Ascending the valley the willows become less abundant, the stream reappears in volume, and the sandy levels that flank its bank are abundantly clothed with what looks like Juniper, but on investigation proves to be mostly Kunzia glandulosa, which seems to occupy a narrow belt at this elevation all the way across the desert rim from Harold to the Cajon Pass. Here for the first time I found Amygdalus fasciculata. It gre w in dense thickets, and bore little fruit, but was covered with tent caterpillars. Among the desert shrubs Tetradymia spinosa, T. glabrata, T. comosa and Salvia carnosa were the most conspicuous. Scattered over the mesa were numerous plants of Opuntia echinocarpa with occasionally O. basilaris, and a few shrubs of what seemed the typical Ceanothus ves- titus, Greene. Eriogonums were numerous; E. Heermanni and E. Palmeri were coming into flower on the higher grounds, while in the river wash E. molestum and E. pus- ilium were in full bloom. la the marshy ground at the river edge magnificent specimens of Castilleia linaricefolia abounded, and on the drier ground Lupinus densiflorus, Caloohortus Kennedyi in fruit, Nicotiana attenuata and Juncus longistylis. A mile or so further up on the exposed slope of the river bank I gathered a dozen specimens of what seemed a variety of CEnothera gaurceflo...