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GENERAL NOTES. 

 Liquid exudation in Mahonia.— "The same observer detected a simi- 

 lar exudation from the pistil"— in Mahonia, the itemizer should have 

 added. See p. 163, line 20.— T. M. 



Some California Plants.— On the last day of the old year the follow- 

 ing plant's were in bloom under three inches of snow in the vicinity of 

 Oakland: 

 Ranunculus Californicus Boisduvalia densifiora 



" Bloomeri CEnothera ovata 



*Eschscholtzia Californica *Cotula coronopifolia 



Cardamine paucisecta *Grindelia robusta, var. 



Lepigonum macrothecum Wyethia helenoides 



Olavtonia perfoliata Troximon grandinorurn 



Erodium cicutarium Megarhiza Californica 



Lupinus Chamissonis Garrya elliptica 



Vicia Americana, var. Solanum umbellilerum 



Lathyrus vestitus Cynoglossum grande 



Eragaria Californica < 'astilleia foliolosa 



Kubus ursinus Scutellaria tuberosa 



Ribes Menziesii *Umbellularia ( alilornica 



* " sanguineum Dirca occidentalis 



The asterisk marks species usually in bloom by Christmas. Escfo- 

 scholtzia, Cotula and Grindelia are everblooming. Claytonia and Ero- 

 dium are annuals. Besides these plants, "hold-overs" of the dry season, 

 such as Solidago, Aster, Gnaphalium, etc., were seen in bloom. The in- 

 troduced weeds Raphamis, Brassica, Capsella, Anagallis, Urtica urens, 

 etc., were plentifully in bloom. Our first rains were followed by unpre- 

 cedentedly warm weather which lasted till near the middle of Decem- 

 ber. Since Christmas it has been remarkably cold. — Volney Rattan, 

 San Francisco. 



Plantago pusilla, Nutt. The ordinary form of Missouri and Illi- 

 nois, where it is common, and as far as I can see of the Eastern States, 

 where it is much rarer, has linear or filiform entire leaves, scapes 2 to 4 

 or rarely ti inches high, obtusish or subacute bracts of the length of the 

 orbicular sepals and short oval slightly exsert capsules, 4 seeds about 1.3 

 mm. or 0.(5 line long. 



Var. macrospekma is a larger form, 4 to 7 inches high, with longer, 

 much exsert capsules; seeds nearly twice the length of the last, 2.4 mm. 

 or 1.2 lines long. — Saline soil of the western plains; on the Shienne Riv- 

 er, Nicollet, and near the mouth of the Yellowstone River, Hayden. 



Var. major, much larger and stouter, leaves lanceolate-linear, often 

 \% to 2 lines wide, the larger ones laeiniate with few long teeth or 

 lobes; scapes densely woolly at base, with the elongated spike often !) 

 inches high; bracts acute, longer than the sepals; seeds intermediate in 

 size between the two other forms.— Near Atoka, north of Red River in 

 the Indian Territory, G. D. Butler. 



Dr. A. Gray thinks that he has proofs that this species, or probably 

 the % cond form of it, is the lost P. elongata, Pursh, Fl. Suppl. p. 729, 



