NEMOPHILA 
Meeting and Field Guide 
CALIFORNIA BOTANICAL SOCIETY 
MAY 1, 1919 NUMBER 3 
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. 
REGULAR MEETING 
Saturday, May 10, 7:45 p. m. at the Oakland Public 
Museum, 1426 Oak Street. Prof. W. 0. Blasdale of the 
University of California will be the speaker of the 
evening. His topic will he “Life History Notes on 
California Rusts ’ ’ . 
FIELD TRIPS. 
Sunday, May 4. Oolma Canyon, South San Fran- 
cisco. Take car No. 14 or No. 26 at 9:00 a. m. from 
the Ferry building, San Francisco. Meet on Crocker 
boulevard, one block this side of Daly City at about 
9:30. Bring lunch. Leader, Mrs. Inez May Smith. 
Sunday, May 18. No trip on account of the Tamal- 
pais Mountain Play. 
Saturday, May 25. Field study of native and intro- 
duced grasses. Meet at Thousand Oaks station, South- 
ern Pacific at 10 a. m. Bring lunch and bring your 
friends. Leader, Prof. P. B. Kennedy. 
May 29 to June 3. Camping trip to “The Nest”, 
the mountain home of N. T. Hollingsworth near Orr’s 
Hot Springs, Mendocino Co., to study the Redwood 
Giants of the Montgomery grove with their accompany- 
ing redwood flora. Those intending to go should com- 
municate with Miss Amy Rinehart, 540 E. 7th Street, 
Oakland (telephone Merritt 3606). 
