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and should it be discovered at intermediate points. But consider- 
ing the uncertainty of its character elsewhere, and the isolation of 
the Los Angeles station, it will be most properly, for the present, 
regarded as an introduced plant.* 
Brassica alba I have received from Dr. H. E. Hasse, who finds 
- it not uncommon about Santa Monica. He also reports Solanum 
rostratum at the same place, but not abundant. This is the second 
station in Los Angeles, and in the nate for this pest, and marks 
its gradual increase. 
Dr. Hasse also discovered near Santa Monica a single plant of 
Phytolacca decandra, the common poke of the Eastern States. As 
it was loaded with ripe fruit it is probable that this species will be 
permanently added to our flora. This find is a most interesting 
one, the plant not having been found heretofore west of the Rocky 
Mountains., 
Senecio sylvaticus has been collected by Mr. Cleveland along the 
water front at San Diego, and Raphanus Raphanistrum in plowed 
_ fields at many places near the same city. Convolvulus pentapetaloides 
he finds abundant along and near a stony road in the Sweetwater 
Valley, ten miles from San Diego. 
Another species of the last mentioned genus, C. arvensis, is well 
established by the roadside near Seventh and A streets in San Ber- 
nardino. In the environs of the same city Scabiosa atropurpurea 
is quite common in damp adobe soil. In some of the suburbs, as at 
St. Elmo, it is very abundant by roadsides and in fields. It has 
been reported in a recent number of this journal from Pescadero 
and the San Joaquin River.t 
In a meadow at St. Elmo I also saw this summer some two or 
three dozen plants of Daucus carota, the wild carrot, so common 
and obnoxious in the Eastern States. They were seeding plenti- 
fully, and in all probability will produce a progeny which in time 
*In the third Report of the State Board of Forestry, page 46, this reed (there 
called by mistake Arundinaria macrosperma) is said to be ‘‘abundant along many 
- water-courses in the State, being most prolific along the water-ways of the older 
towns and cities.” Los Angeles and San Bernardino are specified as places where 
it is especially plentiful. This statement is misleading, and is entirely unsubstan- 
_ tiated as to any other places than Los Angeles. It certainly is an error as to San 
Bernardino. 
_ tZoe, i, 86. 
