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inhabiting the hills and monntains bordering a yast tract of 

 desert country. Its nearest ally is the California Coast Eauge 

 ehrub, Q. dumosa. 



Q. AGRIFOHA, Nee^ as received, is the species which em- 

 braces Q. hcrhcridifolia^ Liebm. ; and this announcement 

 will be a siirprise to those who have so long been taught that 

 Q. hcvheridi folia was the synonym of Q, dumosa or some 

 other shrub of the white oak series. No one who is familiar 

 with our common Californian tree will mistake Liebmann's 

 beautiful Plate xlv for anything but Q, agrifoUa. There are 

 several local variations of the species more or less deserving 

 of varietal name and definition, and this is perhaps one of 

 them, but it can liardly be specifically anything else. 



Rkprint of Fraser's Catalogue, 



"While by name and by citation Fraser's Catalogue is 

 familiat' to everyone at all versed in North American botani- 

 cal bibliography, the document itself is one of the rarest- 

 Although ostensibly written by the Messrs. Eraser, London 

 nurserymen of the early part of this centnry, the real anthor 

 was Thomas Nuttall who afterwards became one of the most 

 eminent of botanists and zoologists. It was perhaps the very 

 earliest of his botanical publications ; and, although the title 

 3 not show his name, it was immediately claimed by him 

 as his production. Perhaps no mere dealer's list of plants 

 and sJirubs ever contained so great a proportion of names of 



Unhappily, very few of these new 

 species thus indicated were described. Most of them were 

 first described a year later by Pursh in his Flora Americse 

 Septentrionalis. Aud yet, there are several names over and 



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