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Inverness - Feb[ruary] 18, 1900
Last night it rained; this morning everything was so glad and fresh that we went for a walk to Second Valley. There is a magnificent display of Alder trees along the stream, some being 80 feet high. My specimens are from Second Valley. (A[lnus] rubra).
Stamens 3, sometimes or rarely 3, very variable in shape. Trunks very white and tall, being unbranched up to 40, 50 and 60 feet.
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Inverness, Feb. 18, 1900. Inverness is about 4 miles from Point Reyes station. At Point Reyes station there is a good hotel.
Calycanthus occidentalis, called "wine flower" in Sonoma Co; also called spice bush. J.B. Davy, about 1901.
Berkeley. Verbascum blattaria, occurs at Shaw. mnt, Tuolumne Co., acc. Chas. Lyser. Spms. (1899) seen in his herb. fls. yellow. He says it occurs also at Sutter Creek, with white fls. Feb. 23, 1900 Lyser also says: Platystemon californicus closes of a night; Platystigma torreyi closes not.
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