8 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Collected iu the gravelly bed of Little Cliico Creek, 

 Butte County, Gal,, 1883, by Mrs. R. M. Austin. A pecu- 

 liar species, the carpels rather alveolate roughened than 

 reticulate. 



Astragalus Rusbyi. 



Minutely and very sparingly puberulent; stems slender 

 and mostly simple, 2 feet high; stipules small and subulate; 

 leaflets, 17 — 27, oblong, 5 — J inch long; racemes virgate, long- 

 peduncled, pedicels soon pendulous; calyx-teeth subulate, 

 nearly as long as the tube; corolla yellowish, -I inch long; 

 pod 2-celled, obcompressed, straight, linear-oblong, an inch 

 long, narrowed to a stipe slightly exceeding the calyx. On 

 Mt. Humphreys, in the northern part of Arizona, collected 

 July 2, 1883, by Mr. H. H. Kusby. 



The plant has the aspect of A. Jilipes, Dougl., but belongs to 

 a different section of the genus, having its pods 2-celled and 

 not compressed, but rather obcompressed. 



Brickellia multiflora, Kellogg in herb. 



Near B. Californica, but glabrous and glutinous; leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate, 2 inches long, entire, strongly 3-nerved ; 

 heads small, ^ inch long, 3 — 5 flowered, very numerous and 

 closely condensed on the branches of the ample panicle. 

 Remarkable for the small, few-flowered and exceedingly nu- 

 merous heads. 



The species was collected in King's River Canon by Dr. 

 Kellogg in 1866, and was named as above by him, but 

 does not appear to have been published. A near relative 

 of the common B. Californica, it is still a very distinct 

 species. 



Laphamia peninsularis. 



Yiscid pubescent; leaves broadly ovate, often slightly cor- 

 date, irregularly and doubly incised, 7 — 10 lines long, on 

 petioles of an inch or more in length; heads solitary or in 

 threes, on peduncles an inch long; involucres hemispherical, 

 about 40-flowered, rays apparently white ; akenes glabrous, 

 linear, sharply quadrangular; pappus wanting. 



