2g2 Notes and News. 



Although growing on dry, often sterile soil, this rose does not 

 readily adapt itself to even a slight change of environment. Of a 

 thousand roots, carefully planted in soil of a similar character in 

 San Diego, only a few survived and none thrived. 



From the seed it is more easily grown, I believe, and may well 

 repay the attention bestowed upon it. It blooms in April and May, 

 and from then on, during the summer, remains in aestivation, rooted 

 in the sun-baked earth and apparently as dry. With the earliest 

 rains it is again clothed with its tiny green leaves, ready to pay its 

 annual tribute to Flora. C. R. Orcutf. 



THE GUADALUPE PALM. 



(From Viek's Magazine, xiv. 168.) 



Erythea edulis is one of the most beautiful of ornamental palms, 

 a quick grower, with lai-ge fan-shaped leaves of a dark green. It is 

 a native of the Isle of Guadalupe, off the coast of Lower California, 

 where it is found in almost inaccessible canons near the sea. The 

 fruit is jet black when ripe, nearly round and about two inches in 

 diameter. Clusters of the fruit often weigh over forty pounds 

 apiece. The pulp is sweet and pleasant eating, and encloses a large 

 and extremely hard seed about the size of a marble. The wild goats 

 on the island eat the fruit with avidity. 



Occasionally men surreptitiously visit the island to kill goats for 

 their hides, and when they run out of provisions — as they sometimes 

 do, since the island can only be approached in good weather — goat 

 meat and palm fruit, or wild dates, as they are called, comprise their 

 only food. The blue palm (Erythea armata), with its beautiful sil- 

 very or glaucous white foliage, is a near relative to the Guadalupe 

 palm, and is found in the canons bordering the desert on the main- 

 land. C. R. Orcutt. 



NOTES AND NEWS. 

 A fund of $8,000 has been raised for a monument to Audubon. 



Col. N. S. Goss, state ornithologist, of Kansas, died March 10, 

 1891. His chief contribution to science, ' Birds of Kansas,' was issued 

 but a few days before his death. 



The death of Edward Andre, F. E. S., the well known Hymen- 

 opterist, is announced. 



Prof. Philipe Poey, the eminent Cuban naturalist, and director 

 of the Zoological Museum in Havana, has lately died. 



