2 . eplint. Throw them away.’ This advice I followed in 
a4 to fevdy until later on, Ba when I got old ae sa to went 
_ them, those I had saved could be easily nained, As a result I 
‘now have from San Diego county many rare species which are 
supposed, according to the recorded distribution, to be not found 
south of the mountains of northern California. As an example 
I can cite Pellaea Bridgesii, which I have from San Diego 
county, collected by myself somewhere in the Cuyamaca moun- 
tains, though in those days exact stations were not noted by me, 
as the teacher instructed us to list everything as taken at-San 
Diego, notwithstanding the fact that many of my plants were 
taken fifty miles away in the mountains. 
“After entering the University of ———— my botanical ideas 
had a revision in some ways, perhaps not for the better. Then 
it was instilled into me that everything found iu ———— was 
either given in Gray’s Manual, or else it must have been brought 
from Europe since the Manual was written. The usual proced- 
ure in case of an unknown plant was to consult Gray to find 
what species best agreed with the one in hand, aud call it that. 
The idea of there being any unknown or new species in 
which were not given in Gray’s Manual was scouted. As a re- 
sult many things which I felt sure must be new species were 
placed under the old names, and now many of them, including 
various Antennarias are considered as distinct things. 
“Another bad thing imbibed at the University of — 
through my instructors in botany, was that it was sufficient to 
gather a plant in the easiest possible way, and slap it into the 
press in any way it wished to go, and change the driers when 
one happened to think of them—any time within a week would 
usually do. The month of collection was a near enough date, 
and this need not be recorded, as the memory was usually sufh- 
