CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 281 



Mimulus peduncularis, Dougl. Stems mostly erect and 

 simple: herbage neither villous nor mucilaginous, but a little 

 viscid, with a minute, glandular puberulence : leaves sparingly 

 and indistinctly toothed, a half inch or more long, on peti- 

 oles of nearly equal length: calyx truncate, the teeth short 

 and scarcely acute: corolla deep yellow, a half inch long, 

 the ample limb distinctly bilabiate, the throat red-dotted. 

 Eenth. Scroph. Ind. 29. 



Referred to 31. floribundus by Benth. in D. C. Prod. x. 

 372; Gray, Syn. Fl. 278; Greene, Bull. Cal. Acad. i. 118. 



Habenaria Michaeli. Stem stout, 8 inches high , leafless, 

 but bearing numerous, triangular or triangular-ovate, acu- 

 minate, membranaceous, appressed bracts, of which the 

 lowest and largest are less than a half inch long: spike 

 dense, 3 inches long : flowers greenish : sepals oblong, nearly 

 equal, about 3 lines long; petals similar to the sepals in 

 form and size, the lip slightly broader, scarcely longer, all 

 rather fleshy : spur a third longer than the ovary. 



San Luis Obispo County, June, 1884, "a single specimen 

 found on a dry hill-side, under a small live-oak tree," by G. 

 W. Michael. The species is strongly characterized by its 

 robust, leafless stem. I am glad to have so interesting a 

 plant to name, in compliment to my valued correspondent, 

 Mr. Michael. 



Bloomeria Montana. Corm an inch broad: leaf solitary: 

 scape two feet high, stout and scabrous: bracts numerous, 

 lanceolate: pedicels 30— 50, an inch or two long: perianth 

 rotate, an inch in diameter : appendage at base of filament a 

 line long, its lateral cusps subulate-filiform, half as long as 

 the filaments: anthers linear, a line and a half long, attached 

 almost at the very base, but versatile. 



Mountains of Kern County, Cal., near Tehachapi, 1884. 

 Mrs. Curran. 



This plant may have been included in the B. aurea of Bot. 

 Cal. ii. 152, but it is a most distinct species. The anthers 



