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plaiiahis generally has five rugae. One specimen, collected by my- 

 self, in Sonoma County, has five on one side and six on the other. 

 A female, collected in Los Angeles County by Mr. Coquillett, has 

 four ridges on each side. . 



In addition to the above characteristics, I would draw attention 

 to the inner angle or apex of the hind femora of these two species, 

 which differ very decidedly in this member, a difference that I do 

 not find mentioned elsewhere, although it is quite constant, at least 

 in all the specimens that I have examined (fig. i). In ellipticus the 

 apex of the hind femur forms almost a right angle, without any 

 perceptible point, resembling, in this respect, the eastern C. fim- 

 briolaius, Say; but in explanatus the apex is formed into a distinctly 

 drawn-out point. The same difference is observable in the apices 

 of the hind trochanters of the two species, but not to so great an 

 extent. 



Fjg. I— Right hind femur of C. ellipticus. 



Fig. 2— Right hind femur of C. explanat^ts. Both magnified three diameters. 



A NEW NOLINA. 



BY T. S. BRANDEGEE. 



NoLiNA Beldingt: Arborescent, 5-7 m. high, including a 



panicle, 2 m. in length: trunk about yi m. in diameter, dividing 

 near the top into many short branches bearing numerous new and 

 old leaves at their ends: leaves about i metre long, 2 cm. wide, nar- 

 rowed above the broad base, flat, not carinate, strongly serrulate 

 upon the margins, thin and glaucous, narrowing gradually to the 

 point: panicle compound, branchlets 8~to cm. long: fruit emargi- 

 nate, on pedicels 5-10 mm. long, jointed near the base: seeds not 

 bursting the cells, round-ovate, 3-4 mm. in diameter. 



This Nolina seems to be peculiar to the summits of the highest 

 mountains of the Cape Region where it grows amongst the oaks and 

 pines, and forms the most striking part of the vegetation. Its gen- 

 eral appearance is similar to that of the Dracaena, so common in the 

 gardens and parks of San Francisco. The trunk is crowned at its 

 summit by a mass of leaves sometimes 8 or 10 feet in diameter, and 

 from them grow the panicles 6 feet, in length. The living leaves are 



