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CALIFORNIA FIELD NOTES. 



During the spring of 1889 I made a few field notes which it may 

 be well to record without waiting to incoqjorate them into a more 

 complete treatment of the respective plants. The colors mentioned 

 were named by Ridgewa3''s Nomenclature of Colors from actual 

 comparison in the field. Hookera minor, a common bulbous plant 

 on our mesas, had the segments of the flower colored a ro^-al purple 

 with the tube of a perianth white. Hookera Orcutti, a new and 

 lovely lilaceous plant, first discovered in 1882 and later in 1884, 

 possesses a white perianth, the tips (and sometimes nearh' the 

 whole) of the segments lightly tinged wnth lavender, shading into a 

 deep lavender to a roA'al purple. Allium serratum, a richlj^ colored 

 wild onion, has outer segments and the tips of the inner segments 

 of the perianth a phlox purple, the base of the inner segments 

 white. Allium unifolium, another pretty wild onion, has rose or 

 purple-colored anthers and stigmas and bore from fifteen to fifty- 

 five flowers (by actual count) in a single umbel (the latter umbel of 

 flowers measuring four inches across). The flowers are pure white, 

 tinged with rose on the outside along the midrib. The bulbs are 

 one to three inches deep ; the flower stems from three to fifteen 

 inches in height ; and the two or three leaves one-eighth to one-half 

 inch wide and six to fifteen inches long. Zygadenus Fremontii, has 

 a bulb buried three to five inches deep with leaves one-fourth to one 

 inch wnde and nine to eighteen inches long, and four or five in num- 

 ber. The flower stem varies from six to twelve inches high, bearing 

 flesh-colored flowers with a greenish-yellow center. C R. Orcutt. 



LIBRARY CATALOGUE. 



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4-1 32. Mandioca. By Thomas Morong. Reprinted from Bul- 

 letin of Pharmacy, June, 1891. From the author. 



4133. Proceedings of the 16th annual meeting of the Amer. 

 Association of Nurserymen, held at Minneapolis, Minn., 1891. 

 Published by the Association. 160 pp, 8vo. 7 plates. 



4144. The birds of Indiana, with illustrations of many of the 

 species. By Amos W. Butler. Originally published in Trans. Ind. 

 Hort. Soc, 1890. 135 pp. 8vo. 



4145. American Society of Florists. Proceedings, 1886. 



4146. Same, 1887. 



