RY LAKE is tucked away among the mountain ridges about 2400 feet below the summit of San Gorgonio Peak, San Bernardino Co., ('alifornia. This lake has an elevation of over 9000 feet, and at times it is a very pretty little stretch of water covering five or six acres. We found when we visited it on the twenty-first day of last June, that it contained considerable water which was due to last winter's heavy snowfall. Yet during certain previous years it has held very little or no water; hence the name. There is a fringe of dead Murray pines some 50 yards in breadth bordering the lake. Back of this there is a dense forest of Murray pines, extending up the slope of the mountain side where the trees become smaller and smaller and more gnarled and stunted as they approach timber line; while in the background the snow-capped summit of 4an Gorgonio Peak stands like a sentinel of old, keeping watch over the little lake nestled among the mountain ridges below it. Just north of the lake is a beautiful little cienega while on the slope above this are a few Jeffrey pines scattered over the mountain side which is covered with cllinquapin thickets. As we were descending the mounitain side above the