86. Escapes in the Coast fange. 
than two-flowered. Those on the mainland in the gulches about San 
Pedro were either one- or two-flowered; otherwise there was no ap- 
preciable difference in size of plants, color of flowers or habit of 
twining. On Santa Cruz and Santa Rosa Islands the large robust 
plants are not good twiners, but the smaller and less luxuriant ones 
twine equally as well as those of the mainland coast. Young plants 
about eighteen inches high, from seeds of the mainland form and 
seeds brought by Prof. Greene from Santa Cruz Island, growing side 
by side in Mrs. R. F. Bingham’s garden at Santa Barbara were ex- 
actly alike, and twined up their supporting strings as tightly as pos- 
sible. 
The most luxuriant mainland form was found common in the moun- 
tains near Santa Barbara, where the peduncles were often as many 
as five-flowered, each flower enclosed in large broad bracts after the 
manner of some of the island forms. 
It must be apparent from the above notes that no sufficient grounds 
exist for separating specifically the island from the mainland forms. 
ESCAPES IN THE COAST RANGE. * 
BY FRANK H. VASLIT. 
In the moist climate of the Coast Range many garden flowers 
very easily escape from cultivation, and some of them promise to 
become quite troublesome in time. ; 
The “ Sweet Scabious”’ or ‘ Mourning Bride,” Scadiosa atropur- 
purea, is becoming naturalized in the mountains north of Pescadero, 
also in lowlands along the San Joaquin. It promises to be nearly 
as great a nuisance as its relative, the “‘ Fuller’s Teasel,’’ Dipsacus 
Sullonum, now so freely dispersed about the Bay of San Francisco: 
The “ Periwinkle,” Vinca major, has escaped in numerous places, 
and though, like many of the plants of similar growth, it seldom 
forms seed, it spreads so freely by its prostrate rooting stems as to 
be very difficult of eradication. 
Some of the Chrysanthemums, now so much cultivated, escape 
from time to time, and are rather troublesome to get rid of. One 
of the ‘‘ Pompons”’ has apparently established itself on the heights 
between Redwood City and the sea. 
