12 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



meiito, and at West Oakland formerly, on ground now occu- 

 pied by the Judson Iron Works. 



It is, perhaps, too near S. eurycarpum, Engelm. of the At- 

 lantic Coast, but is twice as large, its herbage of softer tex- 

 ture, its branches less angular, and its fruits have a rounded 

 (not depressed or flattened) summit. 



NEW SPECIES OF CALIFORNIAN PLANTS. 



BY MARY K. CURRAN. 



Boisduvalia cleistogama. 



Puberulent, or sometimes nearly glabrous, simple or 

 branching from the base, 4 — 9 inches high : leaves linear to 

 linear-lanceolate, slightly narrowed at the base, 1 — 2 inches 

 long, sparingly serrate : flowers rather loosely spicate, 1 — 2. 

 lines long : rose color, the earlier ones fertilized in the bud 

 and never expanding: capsule coriaceous, 4-angled, curving* 

 outward from the stem; partitions adherent to the valves: 

 seeds numerous in two rows, minute. 



Collected by the writer — the smooth form near Mt. Diablo 

 in May, the pubescent one near Elmira, in the strip of wild 

 land bordei'ing the railway, in August, 1883. 



Gilia (Dactylophyllum) Harknessii. 



Erect diffuse, 3 — 10 inches high, nearly glabrous : leaves 

 divided to the base into filiform segments, 3 — 10 lines long: 

 flowers paniculate; pedicels filiform, 6 — 12 lines long; calyx 

 minutely pubescent; corolla white, 1 — 2 lines long, tube 

 equaling the lobes: capsule oval, exceeding the calyx; ovules 

 solitary: seeds turgid, oblong, smooth, a line long, one in 

 each cell. 



Collected by Dr. Harkness, at the summit of the Sierra 

 Nevada, August, 1883. Differs from all other species of the 

 section by its solitary ovules. 



