152 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Lcefltngia pusill a . Glandular-pubescent, low and spread- 

 ing: stems 2 — 3 inches long; leaves subulate: sepals nar- 

 rowly lanceolate, abruptly acute, all entire, neither rigid 

 nor squarrose: petals none: stamens 5: style none: cap- 

 sule triangular as long as the sepals, many seeded. — Tehach- 

 api, Alt. 4,000 feet, May. A much more delicate plant than 

 L. s-quarwsa. 



Linum (Hesperolinon) drymaeioides. Pubescent, 6 — 15 

 inches high, 1) ranching and spreading dichotomously from 

 near the base: stipular glands, none; leaves ovate, acute, green 

 above, glaucous beneath; the lower often in whorls of 4, 

 bordered by several rows of minute stipitate glands: flowers 

 solitary, on pedicels 1 — 2 lines long; sepals lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, glandular-serrate: petals rose-colored with darker 

 veins, twice as long as the sepals, the appendages at the 

 base uniting in front and forming a minute, 3-toothed 

 pouch: styles, 3: capsule ovate, 6-celled, J shorter than the 

 calyx. — Lake county, near Epperson's, Aug., 1884. In 

 aspect much resembling some of our southern species of 

 Drymaria. 



ASTRA1 



Two very distinct species have been included in A. didy- 

 mocarpus. (Proc. Am. Acad. vi. and Bot. Cal. i. 146.) 

 Abundant specimens from many localities added to the 

 herbarium during the year, show the necessity of their sep- 

 aration. Indeed the} r are so very distinct that it is a matter 

 for surprise that they were ever confounded. Nuttall dis- 

 tinguished them clearly in his species A. Catalinensis and 

 A. nigrescens, but his descriptions were evidently drawn from 

 immature plants, and are much too short. The diagnostic 

 differences are given below. 



A. didymocarpus, Hook. k Am, Bot. Baechey, 334, t. 81. 



A. Catalinensis, Nutt. PI. Gambel. 152. Spike dense; 



flowers nearly sessile: fruiting calyx as long as the pod and 



