vided. Meet at 9:30 A. M., Botany Building, U. C. 
Campus. Leader, Dr. P. B. Kennedy. 
EARLY FLOWERING ON LAS TRAMPAS. 
Las Trampas Ridge is an interesting botanical local- 
ity. During several successive years I have found 
Ribes sanguineum var. glutinosum in flower in the 
latter part of November. By the middle of December 
last the berries were nearly full grown. Garrya ellip- 
tica sometimes flowers in November here. Black Sage 
was in full bloom in the middle of December as it was 
a year ago. Psoralea physodes was another species in 
bloom at the same time. Jim Brush (Ceanothus sore- 
diatus also occurred in beautiful bloom. This is a fine 
locality for Christmas berry, but this year the ridge 
had absolutely no berries. — ^Walter Carruth. 
COMMITTEE ON DRUG PLANTS. 
The work of Yice-President Walker, chairman of the 
committee of drug plants, formed a highly interesting 
report at the meeting of the Society, December 14. 
Belladonna is now being successfully grown on a com- 
mercial scale in California and the Society desires by 
experimental cultures to establish the cultivation of other 
drug plants as California industries. Mills College, 
through Professor H. G. McMinn, has generously offered 
to provide garden space for the trials. 
YERBA BUENA LEAVES. 
Miss A. Bruce Walker, the recent secretary of the 
Botanical Society, is now at Sycamore Farm, Los Gatos. 
Mr. L. S. Smith, the active chairman of the com- 
mittee on field trips in 1915', is now Forest Assistant in 
charge of Grazing Investigations on the Modoc National 
Forest. 
The object of the leaflet, Nemophila, is to servo as a 
news-letter amongst members of the Society. It will 
contain the calendar, notes on the current activities of 
the Society and the work of committees, and natural 
history notes from the field. The idea of the leaflet 
originated with Mrs. Harriet P. Kelley, formerly Chair- 
man of the Exhibition Committee, and has been pro- 
moted by Professor Kennedy and Mr. H. A. Dutton. 
