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ing always to employ the names sanctioned by the late Dr. Gray " 

 the synonomy may be readily hunted up, especially as in numer- 

 ous instances the author has caused synonyms to be printed in 

 brackets. The work will certainly render the future study of 

 botany at the State University a much easier task than when the 

 author first undertook it. 



Color Notes on California Wild Floivers, C. R. Orcutt. (Gar- 

 . den & Forest, iii. 438, 439; 450-451). 

 The author seems to think that color characteristics are apt 

 to be ''frequently ignored by botanists" and hence takes pains 

 to say that he has compared his descriptions with the colored 

 plates given in RIdgeway's '* Nomenclature of Colors for Natural- 

 ists *' and we are treated to such tints as " deep claret-brown" 

 iox Fritillaria hiflora^ ''bright magenta" for Lathyrus vemistus, 



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*' Heliotrope purple" for the spots in the corolla of Frasera Par- 

 ryi, *' Chinese orange " and ''orange-vermilion" for Calochortiis 

 Kennedyi, "Pomegranate purple" for Opiintia prolifcra. We are 

 told that the corolla of Erythrcca vennsta is " of a shade belong- 

 ing somewhere between solferino and 'magenta, too dark for rose 

 purple!" Lceselia tcnnifolia has flowers "something between a 

 poppy- red and carmine." Sphcuralcea Emory i has " flame-scarlet " 

 flowers. Monardella lanceolata is described as having " Phlox- 

 purple " flowers, while the flowers of Tliauinosnia monfam(7n are 

 "prune-purple." It certainly would require a highly colored 

 imagination to picture the appearance of the descriptions in Gray's 

 Manual, for instance, if such a code of color nomenclature should 

 be adopted. 



Caraguata angustifolia. J. G. Baker. . (Bot. Mag. t. 7137). 

 Contributions to Texan Botany, N. L. Britton. Trans. N. Y. 



Acad, Sci, ix. 1 8 1- 185). 



This includes (i) Additions to the List of Plants collected by 

 Miss Mary B. Croft at San Diego, sixty-seven species being 



enumerated Lippia lignstrina (Lag.) Britt. is the older specific 

 name taken up for L, lycioides, Steud. Several corrections are 

 made in former determinations. (2) Note on some plants collected 



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