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variety of Ilicifolia that it has been made. In the deep re- 

 cesses of San Clemente's gorges, it attains a height of thirty 

 feet with as great a spread, and measures one to three feet in 

 diameter. The fruit is luscious — its pulp a quarter of an inch 

 thick. The pits have been sent to Santa Ana to the experi- 

 mental gardens, where Professor Pierce hopes to reduce the 

 stones and increase the pulp, thus securing to California a 

 cherry which will thrive in low-lands. 



In one locality, Crossosoma Calif ornicum was seen — a few 

 shrubs ten feet tall crowded into a cleft, yet in both flower and 

 fruit; a peculiar form of Rhusvata is on the same height, 

 about four feet high shrubby. 



Adenostoma is found on the arid heights of the north 

 coast and Ceanothus macrocarpus at rare intervals ; both ten 

 to twelve feet high and one to six inches in diameter. 



Sambucus glauca is a handsome tree in northern slopes, 

 while Lonicera finds a few moist and shaded spots in which to 

 thrive. 



In one locality— an old harbor — Brassica nigra flourished 

 six feet tall. 



Senecio Lyoni stars the land, along with "the turquoise 

 flower," Gilia Nevinii; with the fiery little snap-dragon Antir- 

 rhinum speciosum common ; and along the sea-edges 

 Eriophyllum Nevinii abides and, remembering the frequency of 

 the dainty clover, Trifolium Palmeri, you have in San Clemente 

 a galaxy, one plant of which is worth going a hundred miles 

 to see. 



The memory of a. little clump of Lycium at the ' ' Nor '-west 

 harbor" was fresh in my mind upon my second trip last year; 

 it looked different from usual and was of course not L. Cali- 

 fornicum, which covers vast areas to westward; both fruit 

 and flower upon my second trip confirmed my suspicions. Miss 

 Eastwood sends word it is none other than Lycium Richii, the 

 only known plant in the United States being at Avalon, al- 

 though, to be sure, it is common in Baja California. 



Finding Aphanisma blitoides along the sea-cliff edges and 

 Malva exile in old Indian mounds was typical of what is known 

 of their habits on Catalina. 



Rhus integrifolia is here a shrub generally, although in 

 favored situations it is over one foot in diameter. 



Rhamnus crocea is an occasional sight in the south coast 

 arroyos ; old and gnarled trunks twelve to eighteen inches 

 diameter. 



A gay rose-pink Cnicus Occidentalis is not typical, but 

 occasional here. 



