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tus : stigma capitatum, bilobum. Ovarium glabrura, biloculare, pluri- 

 ovulatura. Bacca sicca, sphaivica, calyce immutato subiuclusa, deinum 

 nimpens, 10-15-sperma. Semina fere orbiculata, plana, testa tenui 

 scabroso-reticulata, ala angusta hyaliua ciucta. Embryo in albumini 

 parco subcyclicus, fere filiformis. 



Lycium Shockleti. Inter Calycina et Longijlora quasi medium, 

 humile, glabrum ; ramis robustis ; foliis subcarnosis angusto-spathulatis 

 seniipollicaribus ; floribus e nodis fasciculifoliis sessiUbus tetrameris ; 

 calyce angusto-campanulato, tubo (lin. 2-3 longo) dentibus oblongis 

 obtusis patentibus subduplo longioribus ; corolla cyliudracea e calyce 

 pauUo exserta intus prorsus nuda, lobis brevibus rotiindatis ; stamini- 

 bus sub fauce iusertis, filamentis brevissimis, antheris oblongis ; bacca 

 globosa lin. 3 diametro in calyce distento inclusa. — "A low bush, iu 

 open sand," Candelaria, S. W. Nevada, W. H. ShocMey. 



Galvesia juncea. Maurandla juncea, Benth. Bot. Sulph. 41. 

 Saccularia Veatchii, Kellogg, Proc. Calif. Acad. ii. 17, & Bui). Calif. 

 Acad. i. 144, with colored plate, reproduced from The Ilespericm, July, 

 1860. Antirrhinum {Gamhelia) junceum, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad, 

 vii. 377, & Syn. Fl. ii. 254, 439. Excellent specimens, in flower and 

 fruit, have recently been collected by Mr. Orcutt in Lower California, 

 where it appears to abound. As Mr. Ball has indicated (in Jour. 

 Linn. Soc. xxii. 152), this is a strict congener of Galvesia Limensis ; 

 and so is the Antirrhinum (^Gamhelia, Nutt.) speciosum, notwithstand- 

 ing the fact, as observed upon the plant once in cultivation here, that 

 the palate actually closes the orifice of the corolla. Indeed, it may 

 be seen that the palate nearly or quite does so in G. juncea and 

 G. Limensis, at least in early an thesis ; although the stamens soon 

 lengthen so that the anthers slightly project from the gorge ; and in 

 dried specimens lateral flattening causes the lips to gape. But it 

 is hardly less so in our Californian true Antirrhina, althougli the 

 gorge is well closed in life. It becomes evident, therefore, that the 

 genus Galvesia, properly including our two Lower Californian species 

 (G. juncea and G. speciosa), should rest mainly on the narrow and 

 strictly tubular corolla, confirmed by its marked habit and geo- 

 graphical distribution. Gambelia, Nutt., is accordingly reduced to 

 a synonym. 



Castilleia Suksdorfii. C. miniatce peraffinis, villosula, surcu- 

 lis subterraneis filiformibus copiosis perennans ; radicibus fibrosis ; cau- 

 libus sparsis simplicissimis (1-2-pedalibus) strictis multifoliatis ; foliis 

 membranaceis angusto-lanceolatis sursum attenuatis integerrimis sum- 



