NEMOPHILA 
Meeting and Field Guide 
CALIFORNIA BOTANICAL SOCIETY 
JANUARY 8. 1920 NUMBER 6 
The purpose of the Society is to promote the botanical study 
and investigation of California plants , to diffuse knowledge con- 
cerning them, and by lectures, field- trips, exhibitions and publica- 
tions to deepen interest in the native flora amongst the people of 
California . 
FIELD TRIPS AND MEETINGS. 
Saturday, Jan. 10 , 7:55 p. m. Room 113, Agricul- 
tural Hall, University of California, Berkeley. Lecture 
by Prof. A, H. Cockayne, Government Botanist of New 
Zealand, on the Vegetation of New Zealand; illustrated 
by lantern slides. 
Sunday, Jan. 18 . Redwood Peak. Mushrooms and 
fungi on the peak and in pine forests along patrol trails 
on ridge. Meet at Hopkins and Lincoln Avenues, Fruit- 
vale (Dimond car), 9:30 a. m. Bring lunch. Coffee. 
Leader, Mr. A. L. Walker. 
Saturday, Jan. 24, 7:55 p. m., in Room 113, Agricul- 
tural Hall, University of California, Berkeley. Lec- 
ture on Plant Breeding *and Wild Plants by Dr. P. J. S. 
Cramer, Director of the Division of Plant Breeding, 
Department of Agriculture, Buitzenzorg, Dutch East 
Indies. Illustrated by lantern slides. 
Sunday, Feb. I, Trip to the region of the Guad- 
aloupe Mines, Santa Clara Co., for the study of mush- 
rooms and fungi. Methods of hunting and collecting 
truffles will be shown and also the manner of determin- 
ing false truffles. A motor bus will be chartered for 
the round trip. Members and visitors desiring to go 
must remit $1.75 to the Secretary, Miss Ehlers, 2613 
Durant Ave., Berkeley (Phone Berk. 3699), before 
Tuesday, January 20. Twenty must sign or the trip 
cannot be arranged. Meet at corner 13th St. and 
Broadway, Oakland, 8 a. m. Returning, leave mines at 
4:30, arriving in Oakland about 7:00 p. m. Bring 
lunch. Hot coffee. Leader, Mr. Harold E. Parks. 
