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ing feature of the plant. Probably in its native soil the 
plant attains greater dimensions than I have assigned it. 
Uropappus' leucocarpus. Plant of the size and habit of 
U. Lindleyi, but achenes almost white, slenderly attenuate at 
summit, the narrow part vacant (not filled by the seed): 
whitish palea and slender awn each about 24 lines long. 
Not rare in middle California; likely to be confused with 
U. Lindleyi, which has a very different achene and pappus, 
the achene being dark brown with no attenuate vacant upper 
part, and firm pappus-bristle of only a third the length of the 
brownish palea. 
1 See page 136 preceding. 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. 
At the present date there is ready for distribution to such 
as are desirous of making exchanges of seeds, the first 
annual Seed-List of the University Botanic Garden at Berke- 
ley. The seeds thus offered to other botanic gardens are, in 
the main, native Californian species. -Not a few of them are 
of rare species or new; and‘a considerable number of them 
have not before been in cultivation. Mr. J. Burtt Davy, 
who has been in charge of the seed department of the Garden, 
is the author of the List. 
Puant collecting in various parts of California and near 
its borders has been pursued with unusual vigor during the 
past season, by a number of our collectors. Some of the 
results of this work appear in this issue of ERyTHEA, and 
more may be looked for in future numbers. Mr. Walter C. 
Blasdale, of the College of Chemistry, University of 
California, has diligently gathered parasitic fungi in 
the Bay region, and Messrs. Michener and Bioletti 
have pursued critical studies in the phanerogamic flora 
of the same general district, collecting a number of 
rarities in Sonoma County and elsewhere. Some fine bun- 
dles of subalpine plants of the Sierra Nevada in Placer Co. 
