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carina duplo longiore ; stylo brevi ; stigmate capitato ; ovario semi- 

 bilocellato 8-ovulato ; legumine subcoriaceo parvo (lin. 2\ longo) ovato- 

 oblongo haud stipitato puberulo bilocellato, sutura dorsali intrusa, 

 ventrali acuta, sectione transversa obcordata. — Sierra Valley, Sierra 

 County, California, J. G. Leramon, communicated by Dr. Bolander. — 

 I am uncertain whether this was collected by Mr. Leramon, or by Dr. 

 Bolander himself; but it belongs to a collection from an interesting 

 district of the Sierra Nevada, a part of which was gathered by Mr. 

 Leramon, who first botanized in this valley ; wherefore the present 

 very distinct species may well bear his name. The stigma is unusually 

 large for an Astragalus, and distinctly capitate. The raceme does not 

 elongate in fruiting. The corolla is seemingly white, with a tinge of 

 purple, and perhaps of yellow. 



Ivesia Muirii. Nana (tantum pollicaris e caudice crasso) ; foliis 

 confertis scapura 1 - 2-bracteatum capitato-pauciflorum subasquantibus 

 myosuroideis, nempe foliolis 3-5-sectis segmentisque minimis sub- 

 rotundis sericeo-villosissimis rhachin arctissime imbricantibus ; peta- 

 lis flavidis parvis demum lanceolatis calyce brevioribus ; staminibus 5 

 brevibus ; receptaculo circa carpella 2 longe villoso. — The foliage con- 

 siderably resembles that of I. santolinoides on a dwarfed scale, and 

 is equally silky. In all other respects it is of the same type as I. 

 pygmcza and I. lycopodioides, but it has much smaller petals, which are 

 said by the collector to be " yellow." They are only a line long ; and 

 the calyx, when spread out, 3 lines in diameter. Filaments half the 

 length of the calyx-lobes. I have with pleasure named this little plant 

 after my friend and valued correspondent, Mr. John Muir, an ardent 

 explorer of the Sierras, especially of their glacial phenomena. He 

 discovered it in 1872 on Mount Hoffmann, at the altitude of 9,500 feet. 

 The specimen is just coming into blossom, and the scape is likely to 

 be sometimes taller. 



LONICERA. Some notes upon the Western American species are 

 here appended. 



§ Caprifolium. The Pacific North American species are appar- 

 ently only two, namely : — 



L. ciliosa Poir. {Caprifolium Pursh), of which L. occidentalis 

 {Caprifolium Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1457) is a synonym. Oregon. 



L. hispidula Dougl. Caprifolium hispidulum Lindl. Bot. Reg. 

 t. 1761. This reaches from the Columbia River through California, 

 in a multitude of forms, to many of which the specific name is wholly 

 inappropriate. The original, or 



