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BOTANY. 
LOBELIACEiE. 
Downingia pulchella. Clintonia pulchella, Lindl. Bot. Beg. t. 1909; Hook. & Am. Bot. 
Beechey, p. 362. C. corymbosa, DC. Prodr. 7, £>. 347. Borders of pools, on the Stanislaus 
River; May 8: and Santa Rosa creek; May 1. As the Clintonia of Rafinesque was published some 
years earlier than Douglas’, we propose to dedicate this beautiful genus of annuals, now so 
frequent an ornament of our gardens, to the memory of the late A. J. Downing, Esq., whose 
name, in every part of the world, is associated with horticulture.* 
CAMPANULACE2E. 
Heterocodon rariflorum, Nutt, in Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. ( n. ser.) 8 , p. 255. Grassy plains, 
Napa Valley, California ; May 5. Dr. Parry and Rev. Mr. Fitch also found this plant in Cali¬ 
fornia. It is a neat and very delicate annual, with flowers only 2 or 3 lines in diameter. 
Dismicodon Californicum, Nutt. 1. c. Plains and mountains near Marysville, California; 
May 25. Very near D. ovatum, and perhaps not distinct from that species. The uppermost 
flowers are nearly as large as in D. perfoliatum, and blue. 
Githopsis specularioides, Nutt. 1. c. Hill-sides and plains along the Stanislaus and Sacra¬ 
mento, also at Martinez; April—May. Most of the specimens belong to the vari. hirsuta, 
of Nuttall 1. c. 
ERICACEiE. 
Vaccinium ovatum, Pursh; Dunal, in DC. Prodromus 7, p. 570. Mountains near Oakland; 
April 4. 
Arbutus Menziesii, Pursli FI. 1, p. 282; DO. 1. c., p. 582. Mountains near Oakland, and 
in other parts of California A tree 40 feet high. 
Arctostaphylos tomentosa, Dougl.; DC. Prodr. 7, p. 585. Xerobotrys tomentosus, cordifolius, 
etc., Nutt, in Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. Los Angeles; March 22. A shrub 4 or 5 feet high. 
Arctostaphylos glauca, Lindl. Bot. Reg. sub t. 1791 ? Xerobotrys glaucus, Nutt. 1. c. Hills 
near Downieville ; May 21. 
Arctostaphylos pungens, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 3, p. 278; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3027. A. 
Hookeri, Don. Andromeda? venulosa, DC. Xerobotrys venulosus, etc., Nutt. Daphnidos- 
tylis pungens Hookeri, Klotzsch, in LAnnwa 24, p. 81. Hills near Downieville, and San 
Francisco; May 22 : in flower. Napa Valley ; April 25 : with old fruit.* 
Azalea occidentalis, Torr. & Gray, FI. ined. A. calendulacea, Benth. PI. Hartw. p. 321. 
Rhodedendron calendulaceum, Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech, p. 362. Laguna de Santa Rosa, in 
low and wet ravines ; May 1. Differs from A. calendulacea, among other characters, in its 
white flowers. 
Pyrola cHLORANTnA, Mitt. Gen. 1, p. 273; Hook. FI. Bor.-Amer. 2, p. 46. Hills, near 
Downieville, Yuba river ; May 22. 
Chimaphila Menziesii, Hook. FI. Bor.-Amer. p. 49, t. 138. C. dasystemon, Haw. Supp. Hill¬ 
sides near Downieville, (with unexpanded flower buds.) 
Pterospora Andromedea, Nutt. Gen. 1, p. 269; Torr. FI. N. York 1, p. 458. Hill-sides, 
Dufheld’s Ranch, Sierra Nevada; May 11, (in fruit.) The only specimen collected is more 
than two feet high. 
* K nth (Enum. 5, p. 156, adnot.) proposed to change the later name of Lindley to Wittia, in honor of the same distinguished 
statesman and patron of science (De Witt Clinton) to whom the earlier genus was dedicated. But it would be inadmissible to 
bestow two genera on the same person. 
° “The genera recently severed from Arctostaphylos are not well founded. Different fruits of A. Uva-Ursi, both 
American and European specimens, exhibit the characters of Daplinidostylis, Klotzsch , Xerobotrys, Nutt., and even of 
Comarosathtphylis, Zucc. ' Indeed, one of Klotzsch’s new species of Daphnidostylis (D. Fendleri) is only Arctostaphylo 
Uva TJrsi ” Gray, Mss. 
