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distance fiom Pasadena ; Lithopliragnia hcUrophyila in a shad)' 

 canyon near Pasadena ; Aradis arcuata on Mt. Wilson. Mr. 

 George B. (irant reports the following : Polygomnn rainosissi- 

 7nuni, 7issn rubra, Reseda hitca, Sphacralcea Fcndlcri Califoniica 

 Parish, Lupiiius Stivcrsi and L. formosus, Corctlirogync filagi)ii- 

 folia, Avt'ua barbata, Salix si'ssi/ifoiia Hindsiana, Monardclla ina- 

 crantJia, Lavatera assurgentifiora, Lcpidiuvi latipcs, and Euphorbia 

 maculata. These have all been verified by Parish and others. 



It is easy to find fault, but too much praise cannot be given to 

 the painstaking, conscientious care that is evident on every page 

 of the book. Those who use it will scarcely have any idea of the 

 great amount of work that falls to every pioneer in a new field. 



Alice Eastwood. 



PROSPECTUS OF THE WORK OF THE TOR REV 

 BOTANICAL CLUB DURING 1905 



The interest of the members and friends of the Club is earnestly 

 solicited in its proposed work for the coming year. During the 

 past decade the Club's scientific work and standing have advanced 

 greatly, placing it among the foremost scientific societies in the 

 world. In the meantime its local work, and the local interest in 

 it and in its proceedings, have not benefited proportionately. In 

 such a society, located in such a community as ours, the number 

 of persons interested as amateurs should be many times greater 

 than that of those professionalh' interested in botan}-. The char- 

 ter and constitution of the Club clearly set forth that one of its 

 principal objects is to extend an interest in botanical subjects, 

 which extension is only possible by leading those not interested 

 to become so. It is hardly to be expected that this interest will 

 be engendered by the presentation alone of the results of abstruse 

 researches in subjects which have as yet developed no popular 

 features. On the other hand, research work almost invariabl}' 

 requires material assistance from without, which can in no other 

 way be so well supplied as by the cooperation of an associated 

 membership. In return for such cooperation, the society should 

 provide matter of instruction and interest of a different character 



