82 West American Plants. [ ZOE 
It was through having these birds caged before me for months, and 
having made a close study of bird migration during the last ten 
years, that these grosbeaks have given me a closer insight into the 
instincts of migratory bird-life, even though they be caged from the 
nest. 
The fact of their being the offspring of wild parents that had the 
habitual desire of migration in the full sense of the word, may have 
intensified the instinct of the young when confined, but possibly 
it may be susceptible to diminution through successive generations. 
Not until as late as March 30, 1890, did I notice a repetition 
_of the spring uneasiness described above. On this date at half-past 
eight in the evening the pair almost simultaneously were seized with 
the desire to migrate. The weather was clear and cool, and the 
moon in about the second quarter. 
[Dr. R. W. Shufeldt has noted (Auk, vii, 94) a similar incli- 
nation ina pair of evening grosbeaks to migrate in spring. He 
says: ‘‘When it came round to March a noteworthy change camé 
over their night habits, for up to that date the pair invariably roosted 
together, with their heads under their wings, all night long. But 
during the early part of March the male only kept his perch, sleep- 
ing away, while the female bird nearly the entire night incessantly 
hopped from perch to perch in a restless, uneasy manner. This she 
persisted in for about a week, when she in turn kept quiet, and then 
it was the male, who had his week of nights devoted to the same 
performance.’’—w. E. B.] 
NOTES ON WEST AMERICAN PLANTS. I. 
BY KATHARINE BRANDEGEE. 
CLEOME INTEGRIFOLIA, T. & G. grows on the northern side 
of the Little Sur, a stream which empties into the ocean about 
twenty-five miles south of Monterey. It is one of the showy 
Capparidaceous plants of the interior basin, not, so far as I am 
aware, before reported from California. 
FREMONTIA CALIFORNICA is reported by Dr. Behr from the 
vicinity of Loma Prieta, in Santa Clara County. No one else 
appears to have observed it from that region. 
MATRICARIA OCCIDENTALIS Greene, is found about the streets 
and vacant lots of San Francisco. Both this species and J. discoidea 
