The name of Kellogg is inseparably connected with the botany of California. Coming to this State in 1849, at the age of thirty-five, he lived for nearly forty years in the midst of a rich and varied flora. He published at various times during his residence, several genera, two hundred and fifteen species,* and several named varieties. The lapse of time and better knowledge have left valid less than sixty of these, but considering his isolation, lack of books and herbarium this proportion contrasts very favorably with the work in California. of some botanical writers of much greater pretension. During the years 1877-1883 publication by the California Academy of Sciences ceased, and with the exception of a few which appeared in a San Francisco newspaper, the Rural Press, the species described by him thereafter remained in the herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences with the MS. diagnoses. Several of these, as Eunanus angustatus, Sphæralcea fulva, Calyptridium nudum, etc., have been described, either wholly or in part, from the types of Dr. Kellogg's unpublished species, and no mention made of his work.

He was one of a little band of seven who met at 129 Montgomery Street, in the office of L. W. Sloat, one of their number, on the fourth day of April, 1853, to found by the dim light of candles, which they had brought in their pockets, the California Academy of Sciences, now grown to proportions of which they could have hardly dreamed. When he died, March 31, 1887, he had long survived the rest.

* An annotated list of Dr. Kellogg's species is to be found in Bull. Cal. Acad., Vol. 1, pp. 128-151.

To the end of his life he was closely identified with the organization, which he loved with the love of a father. All visitors to the Society in the later years of his lifetime cannot fail to recall his familiar presence at the drawing-table in shirtsleeves and red-backed vest, or, as in his hours of relaxation, leaning back in his chair with the stem of a cob pipe between his lips. He retained his sight marvelously, making to the last all his studies and drawings with a small hand lens, and finding any aid unnecessary to his reading and writing. His hair was just beginning to change from brown to gray when he died.

His personal character was above reproach; no one ever imputed to him falsehood or unfair dealing. His botanical statements, though sometimes erroneous, were true so far as he was concerned, and always made in good faith, but he was a dreamy, imaginative man, full of poetic fancies, which often in descriptions caused him to dwell unduly upon some point which caught his fancy. His habit of tracing "correspondencies" between the material world and its organisms and the mental states of man, often appeared in his botanical writings. The first description of "Marah," for instance, was followed by a small sermon on the "bitter waters" of affliction, and to the type of Quercus Morehus is appended the following note:

"Abram's Oak named from the circumstance of Abram's first encampment in the oak groves of Moreh, on his journey to Egypt (Egypt in correspondential language signifies Natural Sciences)."

His childlike enthusiasm and unworldliness impressed all who met him. He asked of the world only the means of simplest living. He lived a happy life and died respected. Would there were more like him.

NOTES ON SOME COLORADO PLANTS.

BY ALICE EASTWOOD.

RANUNCULUS ALISMEFOLIUS Geyer. This is described in Coulter's Manual as having leaves with entire margins. This is misleading; for they are as often dentate with scattered teeth.

RANUNCULUS MACAULEYI Gray.

tain range where it has been found.

This varies on every mounIt grows along the edge of

snow banks, and the buds can often be seen under the thin crust of melting snow. The flowers vary from an inch or more in diameter to a half inch or less. In the San Juan Mountains, above Silverton, it is abundant along the edge of snow banks. The leaves are three-toothed at the truncate apex and entire below; the calyx is thickly covered with soft brown wool. Specimens from the Elk Mountains, above Irwin, have the petals usually entire, but occasionally flabelliform, leaves almost orbicular and crenate nearly to the base, the silky wool dense on the calyx. The form from the La Plata Mountains has the calyx either densely or sparingly hirsute; the root leaves oblong-lanceolate; stem leaves not cleft as in the other two forms.

RANUNCULUS GLABERRIMUS Hook. Specimens of this from Mancos have cauline leaves entire as well as deeply 2-3-lobed, akenes plainly hispid. I have found no plants with three large blunt teeth at the apex of the leaves.

DELPHINIUM OCCIDENTALE Watson. This varies greatly. At Steamboat Springs, in Routt County, it is one of the commonest plants; but rarely could two plants be found with flowers colored alike. They ranged from dark blue to white, and the forms. between, where the two shades mingled, were mottled and striped, one part colored blue in one flower, white in another, so infinitely varied that to collect all forms was impossible. Usually it is found at subalpine elevations and is dark blue. I have specimens from above Irwin, in the Elk Mountains, in which all parts of the flower have become blue, bract-like petals.

AQUILEGIA ECALCARATA Eastwood. This has been collected in Southwestern Colorado in but one limited locality, about twenty-five miles from Mancos, near the head of Johnston Cañon that forms a branch of the Mancos Cañon. It was abundant under an overarching rock that even late in August was still wet with the alkali water that oozed from it. The plants were growing in the sandy soil, loosely branching and also climbing up the rocky wall, apparently seeking moisture. The few flowers still in bloom were on stems that clung to the rock, but the plants were full of dry seed pods that indicated their earlier abundance. The pubescence is glandular and the flowers pink or white.