30 ERYTHEA. 



venushts too far north, as at Newhall it is very common and 

 may be found even nearer. Those there found, like those at 

 Elizabeth Lake, are perfectly typical in their markings, 

 though shoTving all grades of color from the light yellow to 

 purple. 



I have been unable to secure varieties of C. Itdeits to com- 

 pare with the various forms of C. venushts; but the two 

 plants are so strikingly different in their typical forms that I 

 suspect the opinions of those who think them confluent. 



(7- PlummercB^ Greene, As far as I can understand it this 

 is allied to C. Weedii var. purpurascens; and there can be no 

 confounding it, with its broad-based open campanulate per- 

 ianth, with the cnneate-petalled and funnelform-flowered 0. 

 spleiidens. 



New Records for Catalina Island. 



Late in August of last season I visited Catalina and spent 

 part of the time exploring the canons in the vicinity of 

 Avalon, where were found a few plants hitherto unrecorded 

 on the Island. 



% 



Potentilla glcmdidoscif Lindl. A not uncommon plant in 

 shady ravines on the mainland, this is perhaps the most inter- 

 esting find, as the absence of Rosacese, among other 

 families, was considered a peculiarity of the Island flora. 

 The Potentilla was found growing but sparingly in a ravine 

 shaded by oaks. In a short canon east of Avalon was found 

 a single clump of Euphorbia leptocera^ Engelm, and higher 

 up in the same locality a stunted bush of Cornus of what 

 species I could not from the absence of fruit determine, but it 

 is apparently not the common mainland form C. pubescens 

 var. Californicaj C. & R. 



Eqiiisetitm robustum is not infrequent; Corethrogyne fila- 

 ginifolia^ Nutt. is common. Andropogon saccharoides, 

 Swartz, a rare species at Los Angeles may be seen on the 

 slopes near the town along with Gastridhtm aiistrale^ P. & B. 

 an importation common on the mainland. 



i 



