510 Walks Round San Francisco—The Bay Shore. [ August, 
Lupinus micranthus and Orthocarpus erianthus fleck the hillside 
with blue and white, but the show of the flowers is not on this 
southern side, exposed to the rough westerly blasts of the Pacific 
as they sweep through the valley, but on the moister and com- 
paratively sheltered north-eastern slope. One of the most 
abundant of flowers, here and in the whole vicinity of San Fran- 
cisco, is the Œnothera primuloides, a stemless plant with yellow 
blossoms, each on its own peduncle, reminding us of the primrose. 
Another flower, plentiful on this hill, but very local in its distribu- — 
tion, is the purple and white Collinsia bicolor, belonging to the 
same order with the Mimuli, two kinds of which, Mimulus luteus 
and M. glutinosus, may be found near by, the former by the 
water-courses and in the wet places which abound after the heavy 
rains, the latter on the dry hillsides. . The great yellow daisy-like 
Layia platyglossa, with its ray-florets tipped with cream-color, 
from which it has earned the name of “ tidy-tips,” is to be seen 
here and there, but does not show as it does across the bay, at 
Oakland, where whole fields are golden with its blossoms. 
The Zschscholzia californica is here, of course; there is not a 
month in the year when it cannot be found, but now it is in its 
glory, its gorgeous orange petals inducing every urchin that comes 
along to gather the “ lilies,” as he calls them. 
Another of the poppy-tribe the little “ cream- “clip,” Platystemon 
californicum Bentham, may be. found if looked for, for it is modest, 
unlike poppies in general. Orthocarpus is a very conspicuous 
genus in California generally, on this hill-side we gather, besides 
the white one already mentioned, the purple and yellow O. castille- 
jodes, and the tiny-flowered O. pusillus. 
Nemophila insignis is almost out of blossom, yet we find 
a few, and among the loose stones high up the hill we find one 
of its rarer relations, the rough, almost prickly, Phacelia loasifolta 
Torrey. The more common Phacelias, P. circinata, with its coarse 
foliage and cat’s tail-like curled flower-spikes, and the more 
delicate P, tanacetifolia, we do not meet with in this ramble. 
The rose order is represented only by one plant, the humble 
Acena trifida, a near relation of the Sanguisorba or Burnet. 
Almost the only shrubs to be found are a dwarf oak and the 
: os poison oak, Rhus diversiloba Torrey-Gray, the latter unfortunately 
: only too common, as we find to our cost next day, when our 
a wrists inflame and become covered with the pustules pene 
