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The genus Brodisea was revised by Mr. Baker in the Gardeners' 

 Chronicle, Series 3, xx, pp. 213, 241, 459, and 687, June-December, 

 1896.— J. Burtt Davy. 



Trichostema lanatum in Monterey County.— Mr. Arthur 

 L. Bolton has brought to the herbarium of the University of Cali- 

 fornia, specimens of Trichostema lanatum Benth., which he found 

 growing plentifully on the Sur River, some eighteen miles, in an air 

 line, south of Monterey. The State Survey Botany gives the range 

 of this species as "rocky ledges, Monterey ? or Santa Barbara to 

 San Diego County"; Gray, in the Synoptical Flora, omits the refer- 

 ence to Monterey, probably considering it as erroneous. Mr. Bolton's 

 discovery is therefore an important one, adding fully 120 miles to 

 the known northerly range of the species.— J. Burtt Davy. 



Cyperus strigosus Linn.— This sedge appears to be hitherto 

 unrecorded as occurring in California. Mr. Geo. Hansen has col- 

 lected it near Jackson, Amador County, and distributed it as part 

 of 821 in his Flora of the Sequoia Region. The determination was 

 kindly ;made by Dr. Britton. Britton and Brown in their Illus- 

 trated Flora give the range of the species as "Maine and Ontario tc 

 Minnesota, south to Florida and Texas."— J. Burtt Davy. 



Naias flexilis in San Francisco.— This species was recorded 

 by Chamisso (in Linnoea iv, 502, teste K. Brandegee), as occurring 

 "in ponds near San Francisco;" since then there appears to be no 

 note of its occurrence in the county. On August 21 last, Mr. A. A. 

 Lawson and I went to Mountain Lake to see / whether it might not 

 be found there, and were fortunate enough to go straight to the only 

 spot, where it appears to grow. There seems to be but little of 

 it, though time did not permit us to search all round the lake.— 

 J. Burtt Davy. 



Popular Plant- Names. — Calochortus albus is known as "Bell- 

 flowers" by children in Calaveras- County, California: in Berkeley 

 it is known as "Fairy-Bells," and "Hair-Bells." In the neighbor- 

 hood of Berkeley, California, the following names are commonly 

 heard: "Beggar's Lice" (Galium spp.): "Bridal Wreath" (Neillia 

 opulifolia): "Arrow Wood" (Holodiscus spp.): "Dandelion" (Agoseris 

 spp.): "Deer Tongue" and "Mosquito Bill" (Dodecatheon spp.> 



