NEMOPHILA 
Meeting and Field Guide 
CALIFORNIA BOTANICAL SOCIETY 
SEPTEMBER 1, 1919 NUMBER 4 
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. 
Sunday, September 7. Study of rare shrubbery and 
tuberous begonias at home of Mrs. John S. Wood, 1120 
Morton St., Alameda. Meet corner Thirteenth and 
Washington Sts., 2:30 p. m. Leader, Miss Amy Rine- 
hart. 
Sunday, September 21. Walk to Bay Farm Island 
for study of Salt Marsh Plants. Meet at High St. and 
San Jose Ave., Alameda, 2:30 p. m. Leader, Miss 
Harriet Walker. 
YERBA BUENA LEAVES. 
Mr. E. W. Holway, recently elected a member of 
the Society, starts this month for Chili and Peru for 
the purpose of studying the rust flora of those coun- 
tries. Mr. Holway has collected extensively in many 
parts of the United States (including California) and 
British Columbia and also in Cuba, Costa Rica and 
Guatemala; he is the author of many important papers 
relating to rusts. 
Mrs. M. S. Clemens of Pacific Grove, a recently 
elected member of the Society, returned last spring 
from Borneo, where she and her husband, Captain 
Clemens, made extensive collections of ferns and 
orchids. The latter are now being studied by Pro- 
fessor Oakes Ames of Harvard, who reports that of 
the 151 species collected 101 are new to science. 
