90 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. [Proc. 30 Ser. 



Herbarium of the Academy and from the list pubHshed in 

 " Zoe," Vol. I, p. 129, in an article by T. S. Brandegee on 

 " The Flora of the Californian Islands." The islands given 

 are San Miguel, Santa Rosa, Santa Cruz, Santa Catalina 

 and San Clemente. At the end is given a table similar to 

 that in "Zoe," and a summary. 



The following interesting account of San Nicolas has 

 been copied from the report of Dr. Stephen Bowers, issued 

 in the Ninth Annual Report of the State Mineralogist 

 (1889, page 57): — 



" San Nicolas Island belongs to Ventura County. It is 

 nearly eighty miles south of the town of Ventura, the 

 southeastern end being in latitude 33°, 14' north and longi- 

 tude 119°, 25' west from Greenwich. 



"The island is about nine miles longr and four miles 

 wide, containing 32.2 square miles, or twenty-thousand six 

 hundred and eight acres. Its longer axis is northwest by 

 west. 



"There is an abundance of water on the island but it is 

 slightly brackish. 



" San Nicolas is entirely destitute of timber, but evident!}' 

 has not always been so. At the present time there is not 

 even a bush growing on it except a stunted kind of thorn, 

 scarcely two feet high, and a few species of the tree cactus. 



"Nearly all round the island, the shore-line is steep and 

 about fifty feet high, from which the ground gradually rises 

 in a sort of mesa or table-land, say one hundred to five 

 hundred yards wide and terminates in a steep escarpment, 

 which reaches an altitude of from five hundred to eight 

 hundred feet. The high land is about seven by three miles 

 in extent and sufficiently level to till. Much of it contains 

 what appears to be good soil and ought to yield abundant 

 crops if brought under cultivation. There are but few 

 exposures of rock on the elevated portion of the island 



