42 PROCEEDINGS OP THE CALIFORNIA 



Regular Meeting, July 6th, 1863. 

 President in the Chair. 



Twelve members present. 



Professor George Thurber, of New York City, and F. W. 

 Putnam, Esq., of Cambridge, Mass., were elected Corresponding 

 Members. 



Donations to the Library were received as follows : 



Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadel- 

 phia for October-December, 1862. Transactions of the Academy 

 of Science of St. Louis, Vol. II, No. 1. Bulletin of the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Mass. Proceedings of the 

 Boston Society of Natural History, Vol. IX, Signatures 11 and 12. 



Dr. Kellogg read the following paper : 



Description of Three New Plants. 



BY A. KELLOGG, M.D. 

 LlNUM L. 



L. trisepalum Kellogg. [Fig. 10.] 



Stem suSVuticose ; base flexuous, smooth, cinnamou brown, numerously branch- 

 ed above ; brancbes green, slender, erect, subsimple, stellate pubescent from 

 minute scabrous elevations, and also simply short pubescent ; plant sub-triangu- 

 lar throughout. Leaves erect, sub-appressed, small, linear, obtuse, slightly nar- 

 rowed at the base into a very short petiole, alternate. Flowers small, yellow, 

 in sub-terminal racemoid panicles ; pedicels as long, or twice the length of the 

 flowers ; calyx bi-bracteate (appendaged ?) ; bracts minute (about half the length 

 of the sepals), linear, foliaceous (rudimentary sepals) ; proper sepals three, nerve- 

 less, ovate, acute (or sub-acute), imbricated margins glabrous, as long as the 

 capsule. Petals obovate, sub-cuneate, scarcely twice the length of the sepals ; 

 stamens ten (yellow), shorter than the calyx ; styles one, short ; stigmas three, 

 or united the entire length ; capsule spheroid obtuse, sub-triangular, three- 

 valved, each valve two-seeded, false dissepiment incomplete. 



A small shrubby species, six inches to in height, found by Mr. 



Bolander on the White Hills back of Oakland. 



P. S. — From the ripe fruit since obtained, the capsule is more ovate ; sepa- 

 rating invariably into three valves, only two to three ovules attaining to matur- 

 ity ; the seeds black, sub-compressed ovate, plano-convex or with two plain 

 sides, the third convex, surface rough. 



