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present ranch-house is near the Tuhircitos pond or lake, at a short 

 distance from an older, abandoned ranch-house. It is clear, there- 

 fore, that it is au old ranch. It is used now, as it was in the 

 Mexican regime, as a cattle ranch, the country all about consisting 

 of open pasture hills, without chaparral, favorable ground for 

 Asdepias eriocarpa. 



Up the Carmel Valley, from the Carmel Mission, was one of the 

 very few naturally open routes to the Soledad Mission in the 

 Salinas Valley, and was, I know, one of the old routes of travel. 

 From this route there was also a diverging one, passing eastvv^ard of 

 the Santa Lucia Mountains through a defile to the San Antonio Mis- 

 sion, where Hartweg found Lonicera interrupta perhaps. It is not 

 uncommon here and north of the Mission San Antonio as well. 



Very truly yours, W. R. Dudley. 



Leland Stanford Junior University, May 12, 1897. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. 



Mr. J. N. Rose, Assistant Curator in the Department of Botany 

 of the United States National Museum, began an extended botan- 

 ical trip through Mexico in the last of May. He goes first to 

 Guaymas, then to Mazatlan and from there proceeds east across the 

 high Sierra Mad re. 



Mr. Walter Shaw, Instructor in Botany at Stanford University, 

 has accepted leave of absence from that institution, to be spent in 

 study at Harvard University. 



The forty-sixth annual meeting of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science will be held in Detroit, Michigan, 

 August 9-14, 1897. 



Mr. V. K. Chesnut, Assistant in the Division of Botany of the 

 Department of Agriculture, proposes to visit California during July 

 for the purpose of making field investigations of the poisonous 

 plants of the Pacific Coast. 



The announcement has been recently made of the death of Dr. 

 Joseph F. James, Assistant Pathologist of the Department of Agri- 



