VOL. V. FEBRUARY, 1897. ^^- ^- 



A JOURNAL OF BOTANY, WEST AMERICAN 

 AND GENERAL. 



EDITED BY 



WILLIS LINN JEPSON, 



Instructor in Botany, University of California. 



CONTENTS 



Page 

 Notes on the Polliuation of Some Californian Mountain Flow- 

 ers. — IV Alice J. Merritt 15 



Notes on West American Coniferse. — VII . . . J. G. Lemmon 22 

 The New Series of Proceedings of the California Academy of 



Sciences 25 



Short Articles. — Mr. Baker's Revision of Brodisea 26 



Valezia rigida 28 



Open Letters. — The Genus Avena on the Pacific Coast ... 29 



San Clemente Island . . . . , 30 



Miscellaneous Notes and News 30 



Berkeley, California. 



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