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by the fine hoariness and the absence of all hispid or even hirsute 

 haii-s, and by the calyx. It is apparently more erect and bushy. The 

 corolla is similar but larger, and has roundish-oval lobes. No fruit 

 was collected, by which to learn whether it accords with Tiquiliopsis 

 in having two-parted cotyledons. The leaves are more like those of 

 C. fusca, but the rib-like veins more numerous and crowded, from four 

 to six pairs, and the surface in the younger specimens strongly and 

 beautifully plicate. This has likewise been collected in Utah or 

 Nevada by S. Watson, in Clarence King's expedition. 



Eriogonu.m Kkllogii, n. sp. Umbellata, depressum, caudicibus 

 rarnisve sterilibus substoloniferis filiformibus late pulvinato-coespitosum ; 

 foliis rosulatis spathulatis parvis (lin. 3 -4-longis) basi angustata sessili- 

 bus sericeo-incanis (supra nunc glabrescentibus) ; scapo gracili tripolli- 

 cari medium versus verticillo e foliis 3-4 parvis instructo involucro 

 solitario cyathiformi G-7-lobato terminator perigoniis luteolis dtraum 

 albidis roseo tinctis extus glaberrimis, stipite gracili, segmentis subcon- 

 formibus ovalibus obovatisque intus basi cum parte inferiore filamento- 

 rum villosis ; cotyledonibus late ovalibus excenfricis radicula parum 

 longioribus. — In fir-wOods, forming tufted mats, Red Mountain, Men- 

 docino County, California, Dr. A. Kellogg, July 1, 1869. Involucre 

 silky-canescent. Perigonium two or in fruit nearly three lines long, 

 not including the stipitiform base of fully half a line. Except that the 

 perigonium is wholly glabrous exteriorly, this neat species would 

 stand next to E. Douglnsii : but the head and the leaves are smaller, 

 and the flowers fewer: the whorl on the scape usually consists of 

 only three bract-like leaves. The foliage is more like that of a 

 condensed and alpine form of E. ccespitosum. 



Lastaijri^ea Chilensis, Itemy. In Proceed. Amer. Acad. 8, p. 

 199, where this is first recorded as a Californian plant, on the authority 

 of a specimen collected by J. Blake, some doubt was expressed as to 

 whether it was there indi<j;enou~. Since then I have been able to ascer- 

 tain, through the kindness of Mr. Bennett, that a specimen in Nuttall's 

 herbarium, now belonging to the British Museum, ticketed by Nuttall 

 " Ancislropliylhim Culij orm'cum, Sta. Barbara" is Lastarricca Chilensis, 

 but taller and coarser than any of our Chilian specimens. A slender 

 form of the same species was lately abundantly collected near the mouth 

 of the San Joachin, by Dr. Kellogg, who informs me that it is common 

 around San Francisco, "chiefly, if not entirely, where sheep and cattle 

 frequent." So that its introduction into California by cattle, which is 

 most probable, is not likely to have been recent. 



