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erat; nee non numero acheniorum semper majori, quani iu A. 

 nemorosa . 



Plantain gracilem amoenam in honorem viri illustrissimi 

 Asa Gray, seque de Flora Californica ac de omni re herbaria 

 bene meriti, nominaverinius. 



NEW SPECIES OF CEDROS ISLAND PLANTS. 



A. KELLOGG, M. D. COLLECTED BY D. J. A. VEATCH. 

 [Read before California Academy of Sciences June 4, 1877.] 



Astragalus insularis. 



Stem much branched from the crown of the caudex, 

 branches ascending canescent with white appressed hairs on 

 all parts except the calyx, on which they are blackish. Stem 

 and branches striate, and by the decurrent petioles some- 

 what angled. 



Leaflets 7 to 9 pairs, distant on long petioles slightly 

 grooved, odd leaflet oblanceolate, stipules free, foliaceous 

 triangular subulate-acuminate; leaflets lanceolate, mucro- 

 nate-acute white appressed hairs above and beneath, petio- 

 lulate on short translucent points or articulations. 



Flowers violet, blue, in sub-capitate racemes; racemes 

 about as long as the leaves when in mature fruit. 



Calyx teeth subulate, hirsute with blackish appressed 

 hairs. 



Legumes membranaceous, inflated, ovoid, keeled, apex 

 ascending, stoutly acuminate or divergent-acute, about six- 

 seeded, clustered at the pedicillate or stipitate point of the 

 suture, short-hirsute with white appressed hairs, pods small 

 (l to J an inch in length) on short stipes, at length some- 

 what reflexed. 



Phacelia ixodes. 



Perennial suberect, 1 — 2 feet high, hispid with shining 

 spreading, often scabrous, rarely barbed or hooked hairs, 



