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Pasadena and Arroyo Seco. From Los Angeles to the coast its 

 place is taken by L. plafyglossa. 



Hclianthus Parish ii. Gray. One clump exists at Oak Knoll, 

 Pasadena (McClatchie). Islr. Parish, I believe, was the first to 

 suggest that this plant was identical with H. Oliveri, Gray. Last 

 summer I planted roots of both species in my garden. They grew 

 as luxuriantly as they might have done in their native haunts. 

 The stems, from 8 to 15 feet high, blossomed freely, and were 

 quite showy. I could detect no difference between the species. 



The Cienega between Los Angeles and Santa Alonica is the 

 type locality for Oliveri. There it still grows in diminished num- 

 bers, and the ver}^ tomentose forms seem distinctive enough, but 

 all degrees of pubescence may be found in the space of a few 

 yards. The most characteristic feature of these plants are the 

 large, tuberous roots that resemble somewhat those of a dahlia. 

 These are alike in both. In their natural habitat, the moist 

 peaty swamps of the cienega, the tubers are quite close to the sur- 

 face and are usually wholly submerged during the wet season. 

 The swamps around here are fast being drained in the interest 

 of "civilization." In the process of clearing b}' burning the tules, 

 the tubers of the Helianthus readily perish in the conflagration. 

 In a few years it will be totally extinct here. In the old Kurtz 

 St. marsh, in the city, a large number grew, but the filling up of 

 the marsh necessary to the extension of the railway yards has 

 completely exterminated them there. 



501 Laughlin Block. 



Publications Received. 



"Feeding Native Steers." No. 3, Vol. 15, Bulletin, Agricultural Ex- 

 perimental Station, University Tennessee. 



"The Relative Value of Protein in Cotton Seed Meal, Cow-pea Hay 

 and Wheat Bran." No. 4, Vol. 15, Bulletin Agricultural Experimental Sta- 

 tion, University of Tennessee. 



"Experimental Station Record." Nos. 2, 2, 3 and 4. Vol. 15, U. S. 

 Department Agriculture. 



" Transactions ot the Massachusetts Horticultural Society." Part i. 

 2, 1901. 



"Provisional Methods for the Analysis of Food." Bulletin No. 65, 

 Chemistry U. S. Department Agriculture. 



" Foods and Food Control." Parts i and 2, Chemistry Bureau. Bul- 

 letin No. 69, U. S. Department Agriculture. 



"The California Peach-Tree Borer," by C. V. Woodworth. Bulletin 

 No. 143, Agricultural Experimental Station, Univeisity of California. 



