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Sciences by three specimens. One collected by J. Ball, near 
Florence, May 1848, another from the Herbarium of the Royal 
Museum of Florence, collected by Dr. Dukerly, near Algiers, 
April, 1863. 
A brief description of this Cichoriaceous plant may serve to 
help others to identify what promises to be a new weed in 
California. 
Hispid throughout, with slender, simple stems an inch or two 
high, to tall. widely branching plants, two or three feet high. 
Stem leaves ovate-lanceolate, sessile, clasping, entire or sinuately 
toothed : radical and lower stem leaves oblanceolate and, in lux- 
uriant specimens, runcinately lobed, on long margined petioles 
clasping at base. Heads of yellow flowers from an eighth to 
half an inch in diameter, in naked peduncles an inch or more 
long: bracts of the involucre rigid, incurved, folding around the 
outermost akenes, muricately setose on the back, in a single 
series, spreading when old; outer akenes maturing, the pappus 
a crown of dentate scales; inner, abortive with acuminate, bar- 
bellate paleze, almost equalling the akene; akenes barbellate- 
striate, terete; receptacle naked. 
I have been told that where the Sanitarium now stands there 
Was at one time a large garden worked by the Italians. It was 
doubtless through them that the weed was introduced.—Alice 
Eastwood. : 
PINUS LAMBERTIANA ON MT. ST. HELENA. 
On a recent trip to the summit of Mt. St. Helena several trees 
of the above species were seen not far from the highest point on 
the eastern slope of the mountain. They were not large trees, 
perhaps forty or fifty feet high and from a foot to nearly two feet 
in diameter. Some of the trees bore cones, specimens of which 
were collected from among those that had fallen to the ground. 
Besides these trees there are others, that were pointed out to me 
by Mrs. Patton, growing on a ridge above the toll-house. While 
I could recognize the species from the distance, there was then no 
opportunity of visiting the locality to closely inspect the trees. 
The trees near the summit of the mountain are not far from 
