38 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA 



Mr. Bolander made some remarks on the peculiar growth of 

 Carex decidua, in Marin County, not on the borders of the creeks, 

 but in the middle of them. He also spoke of Hierochloa fragrans 

 R. S., as a remarkably fragrant plant, and as furnishing beautiful 

 grass for lawns. 



Regular Meeting, May 18th, 1863. 

 President in the Chair. 



Nine members present. 



Messrs. W. S. Sullivant, and Leo Lesquereux, of Columbus, 

 Ohio, were elected Corresponding Members, and Rev. T. Starr 

 King a Resident Member. 



Donations to the Cabinet were received as follows : 



Specimens of copper ore from the Mammoth Lode, Del Norte 

 County, by Dr. Trask. 



Regular Meeting, June 1st, 1863. 



President in the Chair. 



Ten members present, and Dr. Hillebrand, of Honolulu, by 

 invitation. 



Dr. Kellogg presented the following paper : 



Description of a New Species of Hosackia. 



BT A. KELLOGG, M.D. 



Hosackia Dougl. 

 H. argentea Kellogg. [Fig. 8.] 



Appressed satiny pubescent throughout, prostrate, much branching from a 

 perennial crown. 



Leaves short, very densely set or crowded along the lower stem, leaflets three, 

 very small, rounded, and scarcely mucronate ; the upper leaves larger, leaflets 

 four (only one of the lower pair developed), obovate obtuse, very abruptly 

 mucronate-acute ; stipules red, minute and gland-like, glabrous. Peduncles 

 twice the length of the leaves ; umbels six to ten-flowered, bract of a single 

 sessile obovate leaf (a few separate pink glands or embryoid stipules often 

 present). 



