18 THE AMP:R1CAX BOTANIST 



The luxuriant growth of whicli the plant is capable should 

 make it desirable for border planting. Judging from appear- 

 ances, the mature plant is of moderate size. .\ flowering twig 

 is illustrated. 



Inquiry at the Bureau of Plant Industry elicits the infor- 

 mation that the species has not yet been identified. The only 

 descripti(Mi which accomi)jmied the original material to this 

 country was "Red berried shrul); flowers like woodbine." 



RARE PLANTS OF OREGON 



By R. W Bradshaw 



THE white-stemmed filaree [Byodiuni luoschatiiui). a 

 recently introduced plant from California, seems to adapt 

 itself very readily to our Oregon climate. Although far from 

 being" as common as its close relative, Brodiinu cicutariuuL I 

 have observed it growing abundantly in ricli waste ground 

 about Eugene during the past summer. Whether it will sur- 

 vive the cold weather of the past winter yet remains to be 

 seen. 



Linaria Bkitinc, a ])rocumbent toadflax, wliicli Gray's 

 Manual gives as rather rare "Mass. to N. C. and Mo.," [ had 

 the pleasiu'e of finding as a solitary plant in bloom among 

 some of my English daisies a couple of years ago. Since then 

 I have seen more specimens of it. 1 have no knowledge that 

 it has ever been found in Oregon before. 



In the summer of V)\7 . I came upon a grouj) of inter- 

 esting plants growing on a parking in b'ugene. The owner 

 of the land assured me that he had been trying to get rid of 

 them for ten year>. lie wanted to learn something about them, 

 but 1 was unable to give him anything more definite than that 

 they were rare and belonged to the genus Ccntaurca in which 

 was included the common bachelor's button. This year the 

 Gra\- Herbarium identified them as Crntaiirca iii(/ra. or the 



