BEES FROM SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, VISITING FLOWERS OF ERIOGONUM AND RHUS

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Southern California has its dry season in the summer, and comparatively few flowers are to be seen. Among those that remain, and are attractive to insects, the bushy species of Eriogonum are especially noteworthy, and I was fortunate in obtaining from them several bees.

Eriogonum fasciulatum was determined for me by Mrs. K. Brandegee. The Mt. Lowe species, which look very distinct from fasciculatum, is kindly identified by Miss Susan G. Stokes as E. fasciculatum polifolium, “one of the intermediate forms.” This is the E. polifolium of Bentham.