176 ERYTHEA. 



Artemisia biennis Willd ; Artemisia heterophylla Nutt.; Spergularia 

 salina Presl. (the form which Greene has described as Tissa salina 

 sordida); Polygonum lapathifolium nodosum Small; Juamea car- 

 nosa Gray; Cuscuta salina Engelm. (parasitic on the preced- 

 ing and the following); Salicornia ambigua Michx; Plantago 

 major L.; Atriplex patula hastata Gray; Statice Limoniura 

 Californica Watson; Hemizonia luzultefolia lutescens Greene. — 

 Alice Eastwood. 



Another Introduced Plant. — The students in the High 

 School at Santa Maria, California, have sent to the Herbarium of 

 the Academy of Sciences specimens of Linaria reticulata var. 

 aurea-purpurea. They found this showy species abundant in the 

 cultivated fields around Santa Maria and apparently spreading 

 rapidly. This marks probably the introduction of a new weed, a 

 native of Portugal, and perhaps an escape from the garden of some 

 Portuguese. — Alice Eastwood. 



Picea Breweriana. — In the summer of 1898 I visited the 

 station for this tree recorded in this Journal, vol. VI, p. 12. The 

 elevation of the peak there described is about 8,000 feet, and several 

 hundred specimens are to be found growing near the summit. The 

 trunks were 16 to 20 inches in diameter at 2 or 3 feet from the 

 ground and there were plenty of cones in the tops of the trees, which 

 were about 80 feet high. The locality is 80 miles west of Mt. 

 Shasta. — F. M. Anderson. 



REVIEWS AND CRITICISMS. 



California Plants in Their Somes. By Alice Merritt Davidson, 



formerly Teacher of Botany in the State Normal School, 



Los Angeles, California. [B. R. Baumgardt & Co., Los 



Angeles. ] 



In the name of botany many things are perpetrated in the form 



of "popular" magazine- articles and "popular" books, but no one, 



who knows Californian plante in the fields or, as Mrs. Davidson says, 



in their homes, can fail to appreciate those qualities which, we feel 



certain, will make this book, the first to be written for California, 



