Vol. X. No. 81. The West American Scientist. November, 1896. 
Cc. R. Orcurr, Editor and Publisher, AN OLD-NEW OPUNTIA. f 
see Diego, California, U.S. A- j Opuntia Parishii: we propose this 
: Bye monthly at No. 365 21st. St. ,ame for that interesting plant of the 
Price, so cents a copy; $1.00 & year: Mohave desert region, hitherto called O. 
Editorial. Parryi, and under which it has been 
well described. The Messrs. Parish 
have hardly earned this light honor, in 
many laborious trips through these dese 
Pinus Parryana, a tree unknown far ert regions, and I take pleasure in ded- 
: north of the United States boundary, we jicating this spec ies to them; Opantia 
: have recently seen from the mountains Parryi (type from San Fe ‘lipe), aleng” 
of San Bernardino; Mr. R. H. Asher has with bernardina aud echinocarps, and a = 
Ps 
THE PINONE PINE. 
be a 2 brought it to us from the San Jacinto bewildering host of nameless {ornis, Ae 
= mountains also, while its most egy unhesitatingiy class under serp: ontinal | se 
| recorded station is in the mountains ee 
| east of San Quintin bay, where Dr. R. ag LIBRARY NOTES. 
Gre anches and it. : : 
| *regg has collected branches and frui Eucalyptus, by Abbot Kingex, tess 
B. R. Baumgardt & Co., Los Angeles, 30 ? 
T + ’ Tay ce Fe 
oe Oe ylates, 304 pages, $2.50 An exhaustive — 
In 1888 I made a small collection of treatise, of botantcal as well as horticul-~ 
shells at San Quintin bay, Lower Calif- tural value, and describing several new 
ornia, on some black, volcanic rocks op- species and varicties; the work contatts 
posite the town site; they were very « dark a vast amount of information also as to 
colored, in close imitation of the blackish the medical properties, uses'as bee fe 
lava to which they were clinging. The he oil, timber, cte. of this valuable tree, 
species collected were Acmza scabra, ow so: haracteristic of Californie. 
Chlorostoma funebrale, Littorina plan- Preliininery revision of the North Ani 
axis, Lottia gigantea, Monoceros lugubré ericen species of Eechinocactus, Cereus 
and Pallochiton lanuginosa. and Opuntia; by John M. Co ulter; < 
Pupa Sterkiana Pilsbry, Proceedings tributions from the U. S. national herh 
he academy of natural sciences of arium, tii, 355-462. We dishke t sivec 
: Philacelphia, 1889, 412, apparently as space to criticism, but thd present work 
oe yet collected only by the writer, near js so full of errors as to necessitate ot 
San Quintin bay, occurs abundantly on six iderable space to enumerate the mi more 
Roccella tinctoria; with it was found a giaring ones. Various new names are 
smaller species in much fewer numbers, published, almost without. excepts 
for which Mr. Pilsbry has proposed the based on insufficient enn 1, or plainly 
(still unpublished?) name of Pupa Or- referable to well known species; Dei 
cuttii; this has now turned up on siline gelmaua’s name is often quoted as the 
aes within our city limits. The Pup author of some of these nouns. W 
jana we may add, has been widely the species had been published by c 
dcabuied as ceo to which Mr. authors since the death of that 
Binney — the s botani 
Heli oradoensis sain we have 
from the {ame confines of the dvsert, an is geometrinanss sion: eet: 
41 San dia county—a note ‘addition gummosus and flexuosus, eb 
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