28 Part I. Chapter ı. 
classify and describe the vascular plants of middle California. Parts I, I, II 
appeared in ı891—92; Part IV was issued in 1897. Manual of the Botany 
of the Region of San Francisco Bay by EDWARD L. GREENE was printed in 
1894. Under the auspices of the Division (now Bureau) of Forestry of the 
United States appeared in 1900, as bulletin 28, A short Account of the Big 
Trees of California. WırLıs LINN JEPSON, assistant professor of botany in 
the University of California, published a Flora of Western Middle California 
in 1901. WILLIAM R. DUDLEY contributed to the Sierra Club Bulletin in June 
1901 a paper on the Zonal Distribution of Trees and Shrubs in the Southern 
Sierra and ALICE EASTWOOD in the same journal in June ıgu2, a Flora of 
the North Fork of Kings River. The first volume of University of California 
publications (Botany) includes a paper of one hundred and forty pages entitled 
a Botanical Survey of San Jacinto Mountain by Harvey M. HALL (1902). 
JosepH BURTT Davy, late of the University of California, now in South Africa, 
describes the stock ranges of northwestern California in one of the bulletins 
(No. ı2) of the Bureau of Plant Industry U. S. Department of Agriculture. The 
Botanical Gazette for September and October ıg903 contains a sketch of the 
Flora of Southern California by S. B. PArRIsH. The list is not completed with 
this enumeration; but enough has been given to show the character of the work 
done upon the California flora. 
It only remains to describe the flora of the northwest Pacific Coast. 
The early explorations to this region have been previousliy mentioned. The 
more recent publications dealing with the botany of the northwestern United 
States are few in number. THOMAS HOWELL began the publication of a Flora 
Northwest America in 1897 with the first fascicle, Ranunculaceae to Rhamnaceae. 
The second appeared in 1898; the third in 1900; the fourth and fifth in 1901; 
e sixth in 1902 and the last fascicle (no. 7) of the first volume in 1902. 
The fifteenth bulletin of the United States Division of Forestry, issued in 1898, 
deals with the Forest Growth and Sheep Grazing in the Cascade Mountains 
of Oregon by F. V. CovItLE. W.L. JEprson published in 1899 in Erythea 
a paper on the Vegetation of the Summit of Mt. St. Helena and F. V. CoVILLE 
contributed to Mazama in 1900, one on the August Vegetation of Mount 
Mazama, Oregon. — The forest reserves of Washington, are described 
by H. P. AyrEs and M. W. GORMAN in the ıgth Report U. S: Geological 
Survey 1899. The Mount Rainier, Olympic Forest and Cascade Range Forest 
reserves receive attention in the 2ıst Report 1900. The Flora of the Palouse 
Region published by the Washington Agricultural College and School of Science 
in ıgoı is by CHas. V. PipErR and R. KENT BEATTIE. It contains descriptions 
of all the spermatophytes and pteridophytes growing wild in the area within 
thirty-five kilometers of Pullmann, Washington. One of the latest publications 
to deal with the flora of this region is entitled Forage Conditions and Problems 
in Eastern Washington, Eastern Oregon, Northeastern California and North- 
western Nevada by DAVID GRIFFITHS, issued as bulletin 38 of the United 
States Bureau of Plant Industry in 1903. Lastly must be mentioned a publi- 
