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pedicellis et ovario villosulis; petalis calyce plus duplo 

 longioribus demum ^-pollicaribus. — Rhus Veatchiana—^K.e\- 

 logg, in Proc. Cal. Acad. ii. 24. Cedros Island, Lower 

 California. Dr. J. A. Veatcli. 



In his recent monograph, Prof. Engler suggests that this 

 plant, judging from the figure, may be a Bursera. But no 

 figure is given or referred to in our copy of the Proceedings 

 of the California Academy, in which Dr. Kellogg, although 

 describing it as a Rhus, thought it was closely allied to 

 SapindacecB. An original specimen, kindly communicated 

 by the California Academy, enables me to bring to view its 

 real characters, and to found on it a new genus; the fruit of 

 which (though quite immature) cannot be either drupa- 

 ceous or samaroid, but is obviously utricular. 



We may dedicate this genus to the memory of its dis- 

 coverer, the first and perhaps still the only botanical ex- 

 plorer of Cedros Island. The genus Veitchia among the 

 Palms need not stand in the way of this merited honor, for 

 the two names, when Latinized, will differ in pronunciation 

 as well as in orthography. 



BY H. H. BEHIt — A. KELLOGG. 



Anemone Grayi, sp. nov, 



Kadice sarmentacea; foliis radicalibus ambitu reniformi 

 tritidis, segmentis serratis; involucralibus ternatis, petiolo 

 laminam folii superante, trifoliolatis, foliolo terminal i trilo- 

 bo, lateralibus sub-bilobis; omnibus grosse serratis ; flore sol- 

 itario, sepalis sub-senis, ovatis, utrinque glabris; achenia 

 plurima, in capitulum globuliforme dense spissum collecta. 



Qj.. Floret vere primo petalis ex-albo purpurascentibus in 

 monte Tamalpais, prope Lagunitas. 



Differt ab A. nemorosa et forma foliorum radicalium, et 

 petiolo foliorum involucralium semper longiori quam in A. 

 nemorosa, in qua dimidium folii involucralis nunquam sup- 



