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Carpenteria Californica. — The first collector of this plant, as 

 is well known, was General Fremont, who obtained it on one of his 

 expeditions through the interior of California. No definite locality 

 was known for Carpenteria^ until Dr. Gustav Eisen rediscovered it 

 in Fresno county on Big Dry Creek, in the foothills northeast of 

 Fresno city. The shrubs, of which there were probably about 

 one thousand, grew on the southern exposure of a chaparral 

 hill about a mile above the Toll-House near what is known as the 

 Grape -Vine- Spring on the road to Pine Ridge. The altitude is 

 about 3,500 feet, where are found the last Digger Pines (^Pimis 

 Sahiniana) and the first Sugar- Pines (^Pinus Lambertiana); it is 

 also the lower limit of Fremontia, which extends 500 feet higher 

 up. The shrubs were about seven to eight feet in height, and the 

 flowers very striking in their showiuess. The particular hill^ on 

 which the species was found, was about a mile in circumference. 

 Big Dry Creek does not empty into Kings- River, but loses itself 

 in the San Joaquin plaius. 



Dr. Eisen collected about twenty-five pounds of the fruit, which 

 was sent to a Washington florist, who distributed seed to other 

 florists of the eastern United States and Europe. From such a 

 source came the j^lants^that were offered for sale in their catalogues. 

 From seed of the same collection a single plant was also grown in 

 the experimental garden of the Department of Agriculture of the 

 University of California. This bush has never fruited, but it has 

 been easily propagated by cuttings. 



The above account of the single known locality was drawn up 

 from a verbal description by Dr. Eisen. The rediscovery of the 

 species was made in 1875^ and the locality was revisited during 

 several years thereafter. — W. L. J. 



The Carnation- Rust in California. — Although the disease 

 known as the carnatic^i-rust, which is caused by the fungus Uromy- 

 ces caryophyllinus (Schrank) Schroet., has been known in the 

 eastern United States since about 1891, it does not appear to have 

 been reported thus far west of the Rocky Mountains. I first noticed 

 its presence at Berkeley, in the fall of 1896, and observations made 

 since then seem to show, that it is quite widely disseminated through- 



