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With this number is completed the seventh volume of 

 Erythea, and with this volume the existence of the Journal 

 terminates, Erythea has been to us a happy name. The care 

 and devotion attending its monthly editing, the financial responsi- 

 bility necessary to its regular publication, has in no case been a 

 heavy care, a trying devotion, or a burdening responsibility. 



Here, for seven years, we have lived on the rim of the botanical 

 world, in these isles of the Hesperides, beneath the shade of the 

 Apple Tree. We can not suppose that all the fruit gathered by 

 Erythea has been golden; but it is a pleasing hope that it has all 

 been round and sound, none bitter or exiguous. 



Reluctantly, therefore, we faced an issue where the duties involved 

 with the Journal's continuance were inconsistent with other and 

 more insistent demands. For this reason the Journal ceases. Here, 

 however, is opportunity to express our indebtedness to those who 

 have generously and ably, and on many occasions opportunely, 

 arisen to our assistance. Our best thanks are due to Prof. E. L. 

 Greene and Dr. M. A. Howe and for more recent services to Prof. 

 W. A. Setchell, Mr. J. B. Davy, and Miss Alice Eastwood. To 

 these and to other friends at home, and to many correspondents 

 in distant or remote quarters of the earth, we are pleased to send 

 our happy acknowledgments. Willis L. Jepson. 



University of California, 

 Berkeley, June 20, 1900. 



