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Introduced Plants in Placer County, California. — Miss 

 Margaret Adamson has recently found Martynia proboscidea Glox. 

 growing plentifully in the fields around Penryn, Placer County* 

 California. This is the first record of its introduction into Califor- 

 nia. The specimens are in the Herbarium of the California 

 Academy of Sciences. 



She also brought specimens of Sagittaria Montevidensis Cham, and 

 Schlect. As this has been reported from so few localities in Cali- 

 fornia, it seemed well to make a note of the new locality. — Alice 

 Eastwood. 



Sedge Used in Indian Basket-making. — The Herbarium of 

 the Academy of Sciences has lately received from Mrs. M. E. P. 

 McCowen, of Ukiah, specimens of Carex Barbarce Dewey, with 

 leaves ten feet long. This Carex is one of the most important fiber- 

 plants of the Indians of Mendocino County. Mrs. McCowen 

 writes, that the Indians use the long fibrous roots in the manufac- 

 ture of their baskets. The specimens that she sent came from a 

 plant which had been transplanted to a marshy place near XJkiah. 

 The identification of the species was made by Prof. C. F. 

 Wheeler, of the Agricultural College of Michigan. — Alice East- 

 wood. 



Mr. Hendrie's Gifts to the California Academy of 

 Sciences. — The library of the Academy of Sciences has recently 

 been enriched by the addition of the Botanical Register. This rare 

 set of fine books, numbering thirty-three volumes, is the gift of Mr. 

 J. W. Hendrie, a member of the Academy for many years. Mr. 

 Hendrie is the generous friend of the Academy, who recently pre- 

 sented the institution with securities amounting to a value of about 

 ten thousand dollars. These have been made the basis of a publica- 

 tion-fund, to be known as the Hendrie Publication Fund, the 

 interest of which is to be used for the scientific publications of the 

 Academy. — Alice Eastwood. 



