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The small islands with their few species of plants have not been 

 given a column in the list, nothing different having been found on 

 them. No attempt has been made to separate the introduced 

 from the indigenous plants and all have been noted as " common'* 

 when widespread, or extending nearly the same distance north or 

 south of the islands, ** southern " when the center of distribution is 

 south and " northern" when north (seldom) of the insular habitat. 



To Dr. Sereno Watson, Mr. W. S. Lyon, Rev. J. C. Nevin and 

 Mr. H. C. Ford, the writer is under many obligations for specimens 

 and notes concerning them. 



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Clematis ligustkifolia Nutt 



Clematis paucijlora Nutt 



Ramtncuhis CaUfornlcus^ Beiitli 

 Ranunculus kehecarpiis H. & A. 



Delphvuum Parryi\ Gray 



Berheris pinnaia Lag 



Crossosoraa Cali/oriiicum^ Nutt 



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Southeru. 



Common. 



Common, 



Adjacent mainrd 



Common. 



Southern. 



*Mr. Greene in Bull. Cal. Acad, ii, 3S9, and Bull. Torr. Club, xiv, 118. 

 takes up the name of R. Deppei Nutt. for this species. It is mentioned in 

 Torr. & Gray Fl. under var. ^ of R. acris apparently as an explanation of 

 a MS. name for specimens. It is there mentioned only to disclaim it, and 

 if Mr. Greene is correct in attributing to Nuttall and not to Torrey *fe Gray 

 the real authorship (Pitt, i, 240) of the notes and descriptions of his western 

 plants, the disclaimer is by Nuttall himself. If a manuscript name cannot 

 even be mentioned, without involving questions of priority, a new and most 

 annoying element will be added to the already sufficiently great confusion. 

 Another statement made in connection with the above shows the need of 

 care in bibliographical details. Mr. Greene claims that R. Deppei anteilates 

 R, Calif orniCMs by *' not much less than twenty years " and gives the date of 

 the latter as "Benth. PL Hartw. 295, A. D. 1857." It is difficult to under- 

 stand how he can have overlooked on the title page of that work, the figures 

 «( 1839— 1857," or failed to see that the signature in which the description 

 occurs, as well as the following one, is dated " Dec. 1848." 



tWhatever it be called it seems impossible to separate the forms found on 

 the different islands from each other or from those on the adjacent mainland. 



tToo near the mainland forms to be considered peculiar to the islands. 

 Zoei, 27. 



