BOTANY OF SANTA CRUZ ISLAND. 379 



other large islands Avhicli lie to the northward and also 

 somewhat to the seaward of those above named. But in 

 the meantime we had not remained in quite total ignorance 

 of the botany of Santa Cruz; for in the year 1874 the late 

 Dr. Albert Kellogg and Mr. W. G. W. Harford were there 

 for some days, in connection with the United States Geo- 

 detic Survey of the islands; but it was too late in the season 

 for much botanizing. They were also on the large adjacent 

 island of Santa Rosa at about the same time. I could never 

 find that they brought specimens of more than six species 

 of plants from the two islands; but all were new. Three 

 of them, namely, Leptosyne gigantea, from Santa Cruz, 

 and Bemlromecon Harfordii, and Grimlelia latlfolici, from 

 Santa Eosa, were published by the late Dr. Kellogg shortly 

 afterwards in the Proceedings of the California Academy. 

 The other three, Saxifraga malvcefoUa, Eriogonum arhorescens 

 and Hazavdia detonsa^ all from Santa Cruz, were published 

 more recently by myself. In 1885 the beautiful new tree, 

 Lyonothamnus asplenifolius^ a second and very striking 

 species of Mr. Lyon's new genus of Santa Catalina, having 

 been brought to our knowledge by Mr. Hazard of Santa 

 Barbara, as one of the peculiar products of Santa Cruz, de- 

 termined the present writer to pass, if possible, a part of 

 his next vacation on that particular island. The list of species 

 known as certainly belonging to it numbered now, indeed, 

 only four\ and all four were apparently endemic; at least 

 not one of them was known to occur on the mainland, or 

 even upon other islands of the group. My opportunity for 

 carrying into effect the purpose I had formed came in July 

 of 1886; and by the kindness of Mr. Justinian Caire of San 

 Francisco, who is the owner of the island, my inspiring 

 task was begun under very favorable auspices, except that 

 I was quite too late in the field for the best botanizing, it 

 being near the middle of the dry season of the year, when 



'The haliitat of Corethrogyne (now Hazardia), ditonsa, which really 

 made the fifih, was not yet known. 



