Excerpt from University of California Publications in Botany, Vol. 6: 1914-1919 For upwards of twenty years the writer has been paying such attention to the assembling and investigation of various parasitic Florideae as has been possible from his opportunities and leisure for such work. The work was started on the coast of New England and continued on the western coasts of North America. He has received great help from students and friends, due acknowledgment of which will be made in the proper places. It is hoped that the present paper will be the first of a series dealing with the various materials brought together at the University of California and the results of their investigation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.