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 hairy, with six petals (?) white, no sepals, six stamens and six styles, about one-third of an inch in diameter, on Barn Bluff? (Mann's). What the orobanche-like plant, Aphyllon fasciculatum, on the edge of the bluff? the same six-sepalled, grassy-leaved plant (Zygadenus) as at the Redwood prairie. Colchicum and mints; Melanthium, in the next wet place, on the prairie, and the dry top of the bluff. On this top a small, pale purplish or pale violet lobelia, with toothed leaves.

On the bluff top, perhaps the green milkweed; the wild red cherry, with fruit partly in a raceme: the pulsatilla still in bloom. Probably the same larkspur as up in Minnesota. Lepidium one of the commonest weeds about in the towns and on the hills. The dense spike-flowered, yellowish-white corollaed plant (Castilleia sessiliflora), with long, two-lipped (two-inch long) and four-toothed or divided green calyx, with four stamens and one pistil, grows on the side of the bluff.

This was the prairie variety of the Painted Cup, common in Concord at the foot of the