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beneath the canvas. 7-9. Find a new shrub, apparently a Con- 

 dalia — probably C. spathulata, Gray. See as many as fifty jack- 

 rabbits in the valley of San Rafael. Camp near the village. 



7-10. Collect fresh-water algas, some very pretty kinds, and 

 dry my plants. 7-11. Start for Encenada and reach a pretty, 

 shady place by running water. Find a seemingly new Phacelia 

 and an Ellisia, growing among the bushes. Also an inconspicu- 

 ous Mimulus, and Datisca glomerata, B. & H., abundant. Here 

 spend our third Sunday, the 12th. 



7-13. Find iEsculus Parry i, Gray, in bud, flower and fruit! 

 Also find Phacelia grandiflora, Gray, and a number of other 

 plants. Reach Encenada, send a letter home through the kind- 

 ness of Messrs. Flower, interview the acting Governor, and lay in 

 a new stock of provisions — not failing to obtain a new stock oi 

 fleas. 



7-14. Pass through 'Purgatory' and camp at La Grulla, after a 

 hard and unprofitable drive of twenty-four miles. 7-15. Collect 

 some very fine fresh-water algae from the hot springs, of which 

 there are about fifty, and after enjoying the hospitalities of C. B. 

 McAleer at the old headquarters of Gen. Walker's fillibustering 

 party, we go on to Santo Tomas, where a plant of a genus unknown 

 to us, and a couple of species of verbenas reward the day's work. 

 7-16. Reach the La Playa of S. Tomas where a few dead shells 

 of Haliotis rufescens are found; and find great pools in the rocks 

 lined with thousands of the purple-spined 'sea-urchins, forming 

 one of the most beautiful sights imaginable. 



7-17. Start for San Vicente and make a 'dry' camp — neither 

 feed nor water for the horses. 7-18. Take the wrong road and 

 goto San Jacinto, and .find nothing except another, rather fine, 

 verbena. Find the road to S. Vicente is washed out and impassa- 

 ble. Remain over the 19th.; the 20th start for San Diego, at La 

 Grulla again the 21st, the 22d at Punta Banda, the 23d at Encen- 

 ada and Sauzal, the 24th at Guadaloupe, and the 28th back at 

 Aunt Jane's and Uncle Sam's, reaching S. Diego by noon. 



Local botanical notes will be reserved for a separate article in a 

 future issue. The distribution of herbarium specimens for this 

 year, by the editor, will be made about the first of September. 

 The set will only contain a century, or less. 



Mrs. M. K. Curran, M. D., made a hasty trip through Southern 

 California recently, securing some new, and other plants of in- 

 terest. 



