Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . e prefer to give it, tile-re, is anEroflium, as has been frequently stated in descriptive works on Cali-fornia. This generic name is from the Greek erodios, meaning a heronor crane, and is given on account of the close resemblance of its seed-podand stem to the head, neck, and breast of that bird, as can bo readilyseen by a moments inspection. Hence, in works on Botany, its com-»> on name is given as Heronsbill, and (>ven Storksbill. Ls California name, aljilerilla, is a 8
Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the ..session of the Legislature of the State of California . e prefer to give it, tile-re, is anEroflium, as has been frequently stated in descriptive works on Cali-fornia. This generic name is from the Greek erodios, meaning a heronor crane, and is given on account of the close resemblance of its seed-podand stem to the head, neck, and breast of that bird, as can bo readilyseen by a moments inspection. Hence, in works on Botany, its com-»> on name is given as Heronsbill, and (>ven Storksbill. Ls California name, aljilerilla, is a 8i)ani8h diminutive from filler, a pin, literally means the little phi. It is given because the long, taperingseed-pod is like a pin. For this reason it is frequently called a pin-plant. Its long and musical Spanish name is reduced by usage to the 63—(»«rl-) 496 TRANSACTIONS OF TH« more ronveniont form jiiere, in that practicftl characteristic style whichCalifornians have for finding the quickest and Hhortest way for doingeverything. This plant is frequently spoken of as a native of the Pacific So long has it been known here, so univorsallj^^is it distributed inour State, and so well docs it thrive on its adopted soil, that we dojiotwonder at this common error. It is not, however, a native of America. More than forty species of State Agricultural Societt. 4^)9 ,» described as a native of Siberia; another orthc an, „f Iv^A ?^M^0eer It is even more venerable than a fortv-niner We do not know that history tells us when it first to its newhome It probably came with some of the first shipments ol wheaTand barley, and other seed that were brought to oar shores R.^nt^ SiLrnia aTo-r^ T^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^ in Writ Tt ha^^fo ndin tahioinia a soil and climate so ^enial that it has taken entirepossession, and it seems so much at home that we have come to toiupon It as among our aborigines. And does this seem strangTwhen we -Europe, Western Asia, and N
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