THE AMERICAN BOTANIST 93 



and south. The Black Cherry is apparently more abundant 

 here than it is in the north, !n\t has changed its dark coat for 

 one of gray, which seems very appropriate for Dixie land. 



Though many of the Florida wild flowers are strangers, 

 and hard to get acquainted with, they are all very interesting, 

 and worthy of more attention than they have ever received. 

 Here there is always an excuse to follow the grassy trail, and 

 the certainty of seeing something new on every trip, adds much 

 to the excitement of the chase. 



In earlv March the flowering dogwoods are in bloom : 

 Warblers are beginning to arrive from farther south. There 

 are flowers and wild bird songs for every hour of the day. 

 Then as you wander homeward at the close of the day, the 

 air filled with the wonderful fragrance of orange blossoms, 

 the mockingbirds singing their good-night songs from the 

 house tops, in the west, the tall picturesque southern pines 

 sharply outlined against the brilliant, golden sunset sky, you 

 may feel, as I often have, that nothing could be more wonder- 

 ful, or more perfect. 



A BOTANICAL TRIP TO CATALINA ISLAND 



By George L. Moxeey 



MAY 6th and 7th, 1919, two of us went to Cataline Is- 

 land, which lies some twenty miles off the coast of Los 

 Angeles County, in quest of some wild flowers for the State 

 Wildflower Exhibit at San Francisco. 



Landing at Avalon a little after noon, we started on an 

 exploring tour in the hills back of the town. The Island is all 

 hills and canyons and most of them are quite steep and rugged. 

 We purposely chose wild-looking canyons as best suited to 

 our adventuresome spirit, as well as being most likely to fur- 

 nish what we were hunting for. 



The first flowers to claim our attention were the wild 

 hyacinths, {Dichclostcnima capitata) , which grew plentifully 



