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not numbered, nor are any notes of habitat appended to the 
names; moreover, the modesty of our friend seems to have 
led him to treat his useful twenty-page pamphlet as not de- 
serving of a date; and so there is nothing to indicate in what 
year this first catalogue of the plants of Los Angeles county 
was given to the world. We also observe one new plant 
name, as if that of a new species, unaccompanied by any 
diagnosis. This should not have been. It is to be hoped 
that this beginning may be followed, within a few seasons, 
by another and more elaborate catalogue. 
Mr. Witnetm N. Suxsporr, of White Salmon, Washing- 
ton, is the author of a catalogue of the Flowering Plants and 
Ferns of his adopted State, which he entitles “ Flora Wash- 
ingtonensis.” This, also, is the simplest kind of a catalogue, 
with no very particular indications of localities; but the 
author states that the whole number of speciesis 1690. This 
welcome publication is dated Oct. 29th, 1892. No species are 
described, and we believe no new nomina nuda appear. 
To a number of friendly inquiries as to whether ERYTHEA 
is to take the place of Pittonia, we give answer in the nega- 
tive. But succeeding issues of the series last named will be 
likely to appear at longer intervals than did the earlier, inas- 
much as ERyTHEA makes an additional draught upon the 
time and strength of the author of Pittonia. 
Onz of the most laudable examples of scientific enterprise 
that we have heard of lately, is set by the Botanical Semi- 
nar of the University of Nebraska. Professor Bessey, and 
his assistants and graduate students, have undertaken, on their 
own responsibility, a botanical survey of the State, the plan 
of which, as well as a list of the officers and workers, is given 
in a recent pamphlet. These gentlemen have a most invit- 
ing field before them, and we shall expect interesting results; 
meanwhile the University of Nebraska is to be congratulated 
in its having, in at least one of its departments, a body of 
