52 ERYTHEA. 



from Alaska, New Hampsliire and England, but otherwise 

 offer no essential differences. The largest of the fronds 



collected are about nineteen inches long and thirteen inches 



wide, the lowest pinnae being nearly five inches wide at the 



base. It is thought that more ample fronds than these were 



seen and left ungathered. 



The indusia are smooth; many of the scales have the dark 



central stripe strongly defined. — Makseall A, Howe. 



Probable Hybridization in Calochortus.— Several times 



while botanizing in the foothills of the Sierra in Amador Co., 

 Calif , I have observed among the early Calochorti a form 

 with sulphur-colored flowers which I take to be a hybrid 

 between the golden-yellow C. Benthami and C. alhns; 

 though at the time of flowering of these supposed hybrids, 

 the former species was in fruit, the latter just coming into 



bloom". I made no notes of the botanical characters of these 

 oddities, always intending to transfer the plants to my garden 

 at the end of the season, yet always failing to find the bulbs 

 after the flowering time was past, and this notwithstanding 

 my having marked the precise localities with sticks and 

 stones. Nor could I, the spring a year after, find any trace 

 of these supposed hybrids. But this failure of Calochorti to 

 reappear in a place the second season is no new thing in my 



vicinity. I have seen slopes covered with C veniistus one 

 year, and have revisited the places a year later to find only 



here and there a single plant. And, after having taken every 

 precaution two years ago to secure bulbs of my sulphur-yel- 

 low* flowered plant, it disappeared from the scene altogether. 



Geo. Hansen, Jackson, Amador Co., Calif. 



Sambucus cceetjlea, Eaf.^ — This name supersedes S. glaiica^ 

 Nuti, having been published by Eafinesque in the Also- 

 graphia Americana, p. 48 (1838) four years prior to that part 

 of the Flora of North America in which Nuttall's name and 

 diagnosis of the species was printed. The type of the 

 species is the same in both cases, being the shrub of the far 

 North, along the British boundary. The small tree of mid- 

 dle and southern California, which we have called S, glaucGj 



is a variety of this, or of S. Mexicana. — Edw. L. Gbeene. 



