New Botanical Records for Los Angeles 



A. Davidson. M. D. 

 The year 11)08 has added but few new records for our 

 county, and some of these are at present only casuals. It 

 is always of interest to record the first appearance of what 

 may seem but an unimportant introduction, as experience 

 has shown that it is not always possible to foresee the ulti- 

 mate result thereof. 



Vacearia Vaccaria Britton. Along a ditch on Lima street. 

 Sierra Madre, a few plants. This is the troublesome "cockle" 

 of the wheat fields in the Middle West, and I think this is its 

 first reported appearance in California. 



Silene noctiflora L. Lawns at Alhambra. 

 Madia Wrightii Gray. Half a dozen plants on Drumholly, 

 Hollywood. Probably introduced. 



Gilia ochroleuca Jones. Common in my garden for the 

 last two seasons. For a number of years I have observed occa- 

 sional plants of this species in the neighborhood of Los An- 

 geles, but I was unable to identify them. Mr. Parish kindly 

 named it. 



Convolvulus Binghamiae Greene. Common in most 

 grounds at Rivera; San Gabriel River; Cienega, etc., and as 

 heretofore passed as C. sepium or C. repens. 



Cakile californica Heller. Is abundant at Balboa and Co- 

 rona del Mar beaches, and probably extends to our coasts 

 adjoining. 



Lotus hematus Greene. This plant, common enough in 

 Catalina, was found for the first time in the mainland on Prov- 

 identia ranch, Hollywood, 



The Blue Butterflies 



By J. R. Haskin. 



On account of their small size but few people except col- 

 lectors realize how numerous, both in species and number, are 

 the Lycaenae. or Blues. Although so small, there is enough 

 variation among them to justify their classification into thirty- 

 eight species in a popular work on North American Butterflies. 

 Another able writer actually classifies fifty species on the 

 Pacific Coast side of the Rockies. 



They are essentially a Western genus, as, although several 

 species are common enough, there are hardly as many species 

 in the whole country east of the Mississippi as can be taken in 

 a day's outing in the country about Los Angeles. Within the 

 possibilities of such a day at least a dozen species are avail- 

 able to the student. The illustration of Lycaena Antiacis 

 shows a typical species of this beautiful group. A trip to the 

 foothills and gullies, near Newhall for example, in April or 

 May, can hardly fail to bring in a choice set of them. 



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