178 ERYTHEA, 



Pittonia may be obtained from Payot, Upham & Co., San 

 Francisco, or William Wesley & Son, London. 



Dr. F. Franceschi has a note on the Blue Palm of Lower 

 California, Erythea armata, in the Gardeners' Chronicle 

 for Oct. 10, 1896, (Ser. 3, Vol. xx, p. 424), illustrated from a 

 photograph of a fine specimen growing at Montecito near 

 Santa Barbara, southern California. Curiously enough the 

 name has been misprinted Erythrea, throughout Dr. 

 Franceschi's article as well as in the list of contents, thereby 

 despoiling it of its pleasing reference to my thology^ and 

 falsely indicating some kinship with the Gentianaceous 

 Erythroea, or at least with the Greek word for ?'ed! from 

 which this latter name was derived, a connection quite 

 inapplicable in this case. 



Miss Eastwood has issued a report on her collection of 

 plants of San Juan county, south-eastern Utah, made in July, 

 1895. The report occupies sixty pages of Volume vi, (second 

 series ) of the Proceedings of the California Academy of 

 Sciences. Out of 162 plants enumerated the following are de- 

 scribed as new: Poly gala acanthoclada. var. intricaia, 

 Linum aristatum var. siibieres Trelease, Psoralea juncea, 

 Menizelta pierosjjerma^ Houstonia saxicola, Grindelia 

 stylosa, Chrysopsis villosa var. scabra, Aster canescens var. 

 aristatus, Erigeron sparsifolhis, Dicoria j^aniculata, Cnicus 

 Rothrockii var. diffusus, Gilia congesta var. nuda, Oxyhaphus 

 angustifolius var. viscidus (misprinted Oxyaphus), Abronia 

 turbinata var. marginata, Atriplex Caput- Medusae, Eriogo- 

 num cerniium var. umhraticum, E. Wetherillii and E. 

 7'amosissimurn . 



