IN CALIFORNIA 205 



or Pennsylvania or Indiana. There are sumacs, but 

 who would know them? There are violets and but- 

 tercups but not the violets and buttercups of home ; 

 alders and elders, but they are of the dimensions of 

 forest trees ; and there are hundreds of flowers and 

 plants the forms and faces of which are so absolutely 

 unfamiliar that she cannot even guess their names. 

 And none of these outlandish Californians can she 

 run to earth in Gray. 



"As far as botanizing goes," she wails, "I might 

 as well be in Kamchatka or Timbuctoo ; for the book- 

 stores tell me there is no counterpart of Gray * for 

 the Coast flora, and I love Gray ! ' ' 



As a matter of fact there are indigenous to Cali- 

 fornia about the same number of known species of 

 flowering plants including sedges, rushes and 



i "A Flora of California," by Dr. W. L. Jepson, of the University 

 of California, aiming to cover the entire State, is now being issued 

 in parts from time to time, but is yet far from completed. Meantime 

 the student will find useful the same author's "Flora of Western Mid- 

 dle California," Hall's "Yosemite Flora" (which covers the principal 

 trees, flowers and ferns of the Sierra region) ; Abrams' "Flora of Los 

 Angeles and Vicinity," and Hall's "Compositae of Southern California." 

 "The Botany of the Geological Survey of California," issued in two 

 large volumes in 1880, and to be consulted in public libraries, is also au- 

 thoritative, but because of its early date it is lacking in the descrip- 

 tion of many plants. For description in popular language of the 

 most noticeable flowers and shrubs, "The Wild Flowers of California," 

 by Mary Elizabeth Parsons Hawver, with illustrations by Margaret 

 Warriner Buck, is excellent, as, for arboreal plants, are Miss Alice 

 Eastwood's "Handbook of the Trees of California," and J. Smeaton 

 Chase's "Cone-bearing Trees of the California Mountains." 



