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gining to make its appearance in California, but where it is 

 now common in cultivation in many parts of the State, but 

 does not escape as in the Gulf States. 



I suppose I shal quite lose caste with rosarians when I 

 confess my preference for the single roses over the choisest 

 hvbrids of the garden. Those favorites are indeed beauties, 

 but a trifle over-dressed, a triflle rouged and enamaled. I like 

 better the slender symmetry, the pure blush, of their maiden 

 sisters, and it is by these graces that the wild roses attract me. 

 Here in California they haunt the borders of brooks, of mead- 

 ows and of copses, where moisture is to be found for their 

 roots, and where they can spread in the sunshine their evanes- 

 cent petals of delicate pink. When I first knew them we were 

 content to count but four species for the whole State; but 

 those were simple days. Now the activity of systematists has 

 divided and sub-divided them, until the latest monographer is 

 able to enumerate thirty. The trained taxonomist is not al- 

 ways successful in discriminating them, but the more fortunate 

 gatherer of wild flowers may leave him to his puzzles and be 

 happily content to call them all "Wild Roses." 



TWO NEW SPECIES FROM ARIZONA 



Eriogonum Glutei Rydberg, sp. nov. 



Annual, stem ^ dm. high, glabrous, glaucous, striate, some- 

 what fusiform-thickened below the nodes, di- or tri-chotom- 

 ously branched, the lower nodes 5-10 cm. long; basal leaves 

 petioled, the petioles 1-3 cm. long, the blades reniform, 1-1.5 

 cm. long, fully as broad, white-floccose on both sides, rather 

 thick ;stem-leaves verticillate, reduced to small scales, ^ mm. 

 long, lanceolate to broadly triangular; pedicels slender, 5-20 



