5 6 Naturalized Plants. [zoE 



young, those not yet a year old and measuring about a foot In 

 length, enter the bay m large schools, and are then destroyed in 

 quantities with seines or Chinese bag nets. 



About San Diego the troll is the only means used in catching 

 them. It is simply a piece of white rag, or, more commonly, a 

 fragment of bone, to which a hook is lashed. One or more of these 

 is dragged behind a boat made usually after the pattern of the 

 Columbia River salmon boats. The amount of the catch depends 

 largely on the wind. A slack wind, even when barracuda 

 abundant, brings but few fish. The largest catch reported for a 

 smgle day is eleven hundred by one boat with two men. Rarely 

 more than forty are taken. They average from six to twelve 

 pounds, and from two and a half to four feet in length, and retail at 

 ten cents a piece. Large numbers are salted and dried. 



About Monterey they are taken with the gill net. In 1890 the 

 first mdividuals reached Monterey on March loth. 



Like most of the surface and shore food fishes the barracuda feeds 

 chiefly on the anchovy (Stolephorns ringens). 



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NOTES ON THE NATURALIZED PLANTS OF 



SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. II. 



BY S. B. PARISH. 



The Morning Glory r//^,;^^a^,,;^,,^,^; is reported in the synop- 

 tical flora from San Diego, collected by Mr. Cleveland, and Dr 

 Gray suggests that it may be indigenous there, a conjecture that is 

 repeated in the Botany of California.* It is not however well- 

 founded, the plant in the southern counties being too often a very 

 troublesome weed in orchards, vineyards or gardens. As such it 

 has long had a bad reputation among horticulturists, who find it 

 nearly impossible to eradicate it from grounds in which it has once 

 become established. It is especially troublesome in vineyards 

 which can only be cultivated early in the season, and where th^ 

 clambenng stems can easily overrun the low stocks to which the 

 grape IS pruned Mr. Lyon tells me of a forty-acre vineyard n a 



keot^r K T^'' ""^' '>' "^"^ ^^='"^^^- I" -shards it can be 

 kept down by frequent cultivation, but it is exasperatingly persistent 

 !!ii^'lPI^^:!lbyir^^ S,„P tweK^^years ago f 



*Vol. ii, 470. ~ ~~ 



