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 SHOET AKTICLES. 



SOLANUM EL^AGNIFOLIUM, CaV., IN CALIFORNIA. — Tllis 



plant has recently been sent for identification from Traver, 

 Tulare Co., by Mr. H. Hurst, who says " it seems to have 

 started from seed swept from a grain car at one of our ware- 

 houses here, where it is growing and spreading consider- 

 ably." The State Survey Botany gives as its range of dis- 

 tribution Texas to Arizona, Mexico and extra-tropical South 

 America and adds that it probably occurs in the southeastern 

 part of California. The California Academy of Sciences 

 possesses a specimen collected by D. Waitt, near Kiverside, 

 May, 1884. J. Burtt Davy. 



Distribution of the Coast Kedwood: — The southernmost 

 station for the Redwood seems to be in Salmon Creek Canon, 

 twelve or thirteen miles south of Pt. Gorda, where there are 

 several trees. As is well known the Redwood belt reaches 

 its greatest development north of the Bay of San Francisco, 

 and is continuous as far northward as Del Norte county. The 

 last important body of Redwood is in Del Norte county on 

 Smith River, and on Rowdy Creek, a tributary of that river. 

 The most northern redwood trees, however, are to be found 

 in Curry Co., Oregon, on the Chetco River, about four miles 

 from the coast and about eight miles north of the California 

 state line. These trees form an isolated grove which is, with 

 one exception, the only grove of Sequoia sempervirens in 

 Oregon. The second grove is on the Winchuck River very 

 near the California line. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NOTES. 



Mr. M. a. Howe has recently resigned his position as In- 

 structor in Cryptogamic Botany in the University of Cali- 

 fornia^ and expects to devote the next year to an elaboration 

 of the western material of Hepaticae which he has gathered 



