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—— Madrono, Vol. 45, No. 2, p. 184-185, 1998 NOTEWORTHY COLLECTIONS Arizona Cymopterus beckii Welsh & Goodrich (Apiaceae). Navajo Co., Tsegi Canyon, UTM E. 545000, UTM N. California — 4066000, near small spring, July, 1996, verified by Stan Sagittaria rigida Pursh (ALISMATACEAE). Marin Welsh of Brigham Young University. Voucher specimen Co., Pt. Reyes Peninsula, dunes at SE end ofAbbotts La- on file at Deaver Herbarium (ASC), Northern Arizona goon, very abundant in small farm pond N ofradio tower University, Flagstaff. facility, associated with Polygonum amphibium L. var. Previous knowledge. Listed as an endemic in San Juan emersum Michaux, Hydrocotyle ranunculoides L. f., Co- andWaynecounties, Utah. Firstdescribedin 1981 by Stan tula coronopifolia L., etc., 38°06'30"N, 122°56'40"W, alt. Welsh. ca. 6 m, 20 Jul 1987, R. Raiche 70477 (JEPS). Tehama Significance. This is a first report for Arizona and rep- Co., in large stock pond on an unnamed tributary ofInks resents a range extension of about one hundred ten kilo- Creek ca. 1.3 air miles N of Dales Lake, 40°21'N, meters. This plant is a candidate for the federal listing of 122°3'55"W, T29N R2W NEV4 of SEV4 S22, alt. 185 m, rare and endangered species. It is found only near seeps ca. 1000 individuals growing in association withSagittar- and springs in the area and its occurrence is fairly rare. ia latifolia Willd, S. sanfordii E. Green, Eleocharis ma- — crostachya Britton, and Scirpus acutus Bigelow var. oc- Susan Holiday and Tina Ayers, Northern Arizona cidentalis (S. Watson) Beetle, 26 May 1992, Dean Wm. University, Box 5640, Flagstaff, AZ 86011. Taylor 12649 (UC!) & 21 Jul 1992, C. Witham 450 (JEPS). Plumas Co., east side of Last Chance Marsh lo- cated at the north end of Lake Almanor, 40°20'5"N, 121°12'25"W, T29N R7E NWtt ofNEVa S33, alt. 1365 m, m California ca. 1000 individuals in colonies scattered along 300 of Limnanthes MACOUNii Trel. (LIMNANTHACEAE). pmhaarrshluitneaas(sLo.)ciSaitbiotnh &witShm.Mesnsypapnotlhyesseptarliafol(iEantgaeLl.m,.)NuE-. Abundantonca 18 acresofaseasonallyfallow fieldalong Beal, Potamogeton natansL., Utricularia vulgarisL.,and the east side ofHighway 1 just south ofMoss Beach and other marsh vegetation, vegetative plant on 6 Sep 1994, opposite the Half Moon Bay airport, San Mateo Co. 24 V. Oswald 6476 (CHSC) & flowering and fruiting plants March 1998. (UC); 12 April 1998. E. Buxton s. n. R. Orn- on 22 Jul 1997, V. Oswald 8768 (CHSC). duff10168(UC). This largepopulation wasdiscoveredby Previousknowledge. Aplantofbrackishand salinewa- the first author in early February, 1998; flowering plants ters of eastern North America (Que. to MN south to KS, were present on the site until late May, 1998, when the MO, VA). field was plowed prior to planting cabbage. Significance. First records for California and western Previous knowledge. Limnanthes macounii isotherwise North America. S. rigida can be separated from all other restricted to a small portion ofsouthern VancouverIsland species ofSagittaria in California based on the three pis- and offshore islets in and nearVictoria, BritishColumbia, tillate flowers and fruiting heads, which appear to be ses- Canada. Elsewhere the genus occurs in California and sile in the lowest whorl of the inflorescence. All other southwestern Oregon (L. alba Benth. has become locally Sagittaria in California have obviously pedicelled pistil- established in Linn County, Oregon, where it is cultivated late flowers and fruiting heads. Plants from all three pop- as an oilseed crop). ulations have been annotated by Robert Haynes, The Uni- morSiegnifnidciavnicdeuaalsndofcoL.mmmeancto.unTihierien twheereModsosubtBleeascshmpaonpy- vaeqrusaittiycopflaAnltasbfaomrat,hewFhlooriasocfooNrodritnhatAimnegrtihceatrpreoajtemcetn.tsThoef ulation in 1998 than in all the British Columbia popula- three California populations of S. rigida are in artificial tions combined. The Moss Beach plants are unusually ro- ponds and lakes separated by distances offrom 72 to 282 dbthiuafstftearfroersouLm.pemtwoahc6ao0tuncifimr,olmporngoB.rdiuItcniisnchegrCtdaoeilcnuumfmobbliieaanrtcshfpareruciaitcimtneegrnssstteh(meAs.y jkleymc.tduirHsep,oewrbsuettdhietthcpralonaunngthoawrthrbeievmeedoxvpienemcCteaenldtisftoorobnfieawcaoitsmeerofpmoewonlr.etowicdoen-- Ceska, personal communication). Because the California population occurs in a field that is adjacent to and easily —Vernon H. Oswald, Herbarium, Department of Bi- visible from a well traveled highway and is opposite an CA aoairuritpgooirgntaa,tmeowduesvisaaunsadpnectahtcucstihdasetunctciatelsissifnuntlortoedsuntcaattbiiolvnie.shtTmoehnetthesopfesicatieensbeuiwts 9oDlela5yov9,gi2isC9c,-aA0lC59AS14c57i;90e58nR6c-o1e2sg60,-e317rC3;a6RlC4ai.afiocrrhoneli,aW1SitMtahateaymbU,enicv1ke0r2Ts8iwtiCyny,pDrCrhe.is,csBoeL,raknee,- population requires the introduction ofonly a single nut- let. We have no idea how long this population of L. macounii has occupied the field, but its large size suggests that it has been present since well before 1998. We thank California AdolfCeska for his helpful comments. — Utricularia ochroleuca R. Hartman (U. occidentalis Eva Buxton, LSA Associates, Inc., 157 Park Place, Gray) Lentibulariaceae. Plumas Co., northern endofLake Point Richmond, CA 94801; Robert Ornduff, Depart- Almanor,eastsideoflakenorthofHwy. 36bridge,T29N- ment of Integrative Biology, University of California, R7E-sw sec. 28, 1437 m. Selected associate species: Berkeley, CA 94720-3140. Utricularia macrorhiza, U. minor, Nuphar polysepalum, 1998] NOTEWORTHY COLLECTIONS 185 — Eriophorum gracile; 24 June 1994, J. H. Rondeau 5169 J. Hawkeye Rondeau, "[email protected]", 37 Sun- (SJSU). nyslope Ave., San Jose, CA 95127. Previous knowledge. This species is very rare through- out the western U.S. with only three citations in Oregon (Rondeau, 1995) and two in Washington (Ceska & Bell, 1973). The nearest known location is 470 km northward Oregon at Gold Lake in central Oregon, although it may exist as Carex diandra Schrank (Cyperaceae).—Lake Co., Dog far south as Bull Swamp in Klamath County (Rondeau, Lake, 4.8 air km SSE of Dog Mountain, E of crest of 1995). Barnes Rim, Fremont National Forest, T40S R17E S22 Special thanks to Goran Thor (Swedish Univ. ofAgric. SW1/^, alt. 1583 m, floating mat in mid-lake, with Carex Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden) for taxonomic assistance via utriculata, Typha latifolia, Scirpus acutus, 20 July 1996, quadrifid gland analysis. Zika et al. 12917 (OSC). Significance. First collection for California. Previous knowledge. Circumboreal and recorded spo- radically south in ourregion, with collections from northern California, northern Washington, Idaho and Montana. Literature Cited AnearlierOregonreportbyPeck(AManualoftheHigher Plants of Oregon, 1961) stated: "bogs in the high moun- Ceska, A. and M. A. Bell. 1973. Utricularia (Lentibular- tains ofeastern Oregon", but was unsubstantiated by her- iaceae) in the Pacific Northwest. Madrono, 22:74-84. barium collections. Rondeau, J. Hawkeye. 1995. Carnivorous plants of the Significance. First verified record for Oregon. west,VolumeII: California, Oregon,andWashington. — San Jose, CA 95127. Peter F. Zika, Keli Kuykendall, Danna Lytjen, Thor, G. 1988.TheGenus UtriculariaintheNordicCoun- and Nick Otting, Herbarium, Department ofBotany and tries, with special emphasis on U. stygia and U. och- Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR roleuca. Nord. Jr. Bot. 8(3):213-225. 97331.