BOOKS OF REFERENCE. 



it omits some of the most interesting families. Prof. E. I/. 

 Greene's Flora Franciscana deals more fully with the plants 

 of Central California. Watson's Botany of California, in 

 two large, expensive volumes, is necessary for anything 

 like thorough work. Other aids are mentioned in Miss 

 Eastwood's Preface to Part II of Bergen 's Botany. This 

 Part II, a Key and Flora, is most helpful to one who has 

 some general knowledge of plant families. Miss Parsons' 

 Wild Flowers of California^ Doxey, San Francisco, is a 

 delightful book and by the aid of its illustrations the 

 names of many of our common plants may be easily found . 

 For a complete list of the flora of Los Angeles county 

 the following works may with advantage be consulted : 

 Plants of Los Angeles County, Anstruther Davidson, M. D., 

 C. M,; Seedless Plants of Southern California, Alfred James 

 McClatchie, A. M.; Lichens, Dr. Hasse. 



John Muir's Mountains of California gives most vivid 

 pictures of some features of our flora, and the book should 

 be accessible to all California school children ; the well 

 known works of Darwin, Lubbock and Grant Allen are, of 

 course, helpful in the study of the habits of plants, and no 

 one interested in nature study should do without the 

 inspiration of John Burroughs' books. 



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