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SAN. DIEGO, CAL. , MARCH, 1885. 
ERITRICHIUM. 
Dr. Asa Gray, in recent contri- 
butions to the botany of N. A., 
reduces Eritrichium to a subgen- 
us of Omphalodes, distributing 
the species through several gene- 
ra, the larger number falling to 
Krynitzkia and  Plagiobothrys, 
two genera formerly suppressed 
which are now reestablished. 
The check-list of our plants 
is changed as follows, the species 
of Eritrichium becoming ;— 
Krynitzkia californica, Gray. 
var. subglochidiata, Gray. 
oxycarya, Gray. 
microstachys, Greene, 
angustifolia, Gray. 
barbigera, Gray. 
intermedia, Gray. 
muriculata, Gray. 
Jonesii, Gray. 
micrantha, Gray. 
var. lepida, Gray 
circumscissa, Gray, L. Cal. 
pterocarya, Gr ay. 
ramosissima, Gray, (E. ra- 
cemosum. ) 
Jamesii, (S. Bernardino. ) 
leucophaea, S. E. Cal. 
a 
Kchidiocarya urcina becomes 
Plagiobothrys ursinus, and E. 
californica, P. Cooperi. 
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ZOOLOGICAL NOTES. 
W. H. Dall of Washington, D. 
C., finds upon the examination of 
the animals of Nacella depicta and 
N. paleacea that they belong to the 
genus Acmzea instead of Nacella. 
J. J. Rivers of the University of 
California, has collected some 
small corals ,Balanophyllia elegans 
(Verrill) on rocks a little below 
low water mark at Monterey. The 
animal is of a beautiful red color 
and might easily be taken for a 
small actinia. 
A new work on the land shells 
of North America, by W. G. Bin- 
ney, to be published by the Smith- 
sonian Inst., is now in press. 
A small ‘slug, perhaps unde- 
seribed, has been found im _ this 
county and in Lower California, 
and is now in the hands of an em- 
inent foreign scientist for deter- 
mination. 
Pearls are sometimes found in 
the common California mussle. 
Mr. J. W. Huggins, of this city, 
discovered in his garden a small 
bird, evidently fastened in a tree 
which upon approaching was 
stimulated to a_ successful ef- 
fort to escape. It was found that 
it had left several of its tail 
feathers which had been securely 
fastened to the tree by a strong 
spider’s web. 
The same observer noticed an- 
other bird in evident distress 
which also escaped upon his ap- 
proach, leaving several feathers 
in the mouth of a scorpion’s bur- 
row. 
