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one can safely infer from tlie context that it is Santa Oatalina, 

 Island. Calochortns Piirdyi is another new species, this being from 

 the Willamette Valley. From a collection of plants made by Mrs. 

 Blanche Trask, the author gives us our first knowledge of the 

 plants of San Nicolas Island, the list of seed-plants footing up a 

 total of eiglity species, of which nine are new species and several 

 more new varieties. Under Malacolhrix implicata, sp. nov., is 

 made the following admission : " It has been extremely puzzling to 

 know what to do with this. It might just as well be made a variety 

 of M. saxatilvi." A valuable table at the end shows in a graphic 

 way the occurrence or non-occurrence of the species of St. Nicolas 

 on the other islands of the Santa Barbara Channel group and on 

 the mainland. Of new species here proposed, the author has not 

 found it possible to illustrate the plants entire, but oidy those organs 

 or parts of organs selected as most distinctive. Few authors do so 

 much, and this should be regarded as one of the best features of 

 Miss Eastwood's work; one can readily appreciate the value and 

 nature of the propositions advanced as new. 



