114 PROCEEDINGS OE THE CALIFORNIA 



Regular Meeting, September 18th, 1876. 

 Dr. A. B. Stout in the Chair. 



Sixteen members present. 



Among donations to library were five volumes, presented by 

 Alfred A. Pinaut. Dr. Stout read the translation of the titles: 

 "Library of American Linguistics and Ethnography" (3 vol- 

 umes); "Voyages to the Northwest Coast of America," Part I — 

 The Cavern of Aknanh, Island of Ounga, Alaska. 



A special vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Pinaut for his val- 

 uable contribution. 



Botanical Papers. 



BY DB. A. KKLLOGG. 



Iii Pr. G. Eisen's collection is a small and slender Asteroid, which in gen- 

 eral appearance siggests some forms of Polygonum, lenue or P. avicuiare. 

 St> m purple at the base and insertion of the leaves, otherwise grassy green. 



Aster lenue. K. 



Stem perennial. %-l foot high, slightly flexuous, erect, glabrous, compound 

 racemose-panniculate with short, ratber closely erect branches, few flowered; 

 flowers very small, 3-4 lines broad; leaves 1-3 inches long, 1-4 lines broad, 

 lower, short, spat urate, mostly entiie; higher caul ne lanceolate-linear, nar- 

 rowing :nto 3-nerved winded petioles, one in 'b Ion.; or less, base half-clasping, 

 ni i*ute conn ously denticulate remotely above the middle, lamina firm, glab- 

 rous, trauslucintly reticulate veined, margins scabrous; size diminishing 

 abuve into sessile ovate-obL>ng lance-subulate, near the base of the obconic in- 

 volu re; scabs of the involucre loosely inibr cated in 4-5 series, the outer 

 sho ter, rigid, gre>n scarious, entire margins, linear, lance-pointed, violet- 

 tipped apex corneously subulate, often recurve-hooked, inner and inmost, 

 linear, longer, scarions, sharply acute, rays pistillate, rose-red, 20-30 or more 

 in a single row, very minute, slightly exsert beyond the pappus, fertile; disk 

 florets few, about five, filiform tube gradually enlarging to the 5-toothed pink- 

 ish border; branches of the style short, subulate, scarcely a little clavate to- 

 wards the acute apex; akens linear-oblong, slightly compressed, apparently 

 nerveless, very minutely appressed, pubescent — of the rays, slightly narrowed 

 above and below — of the disk, diminishing from the somewhat truncate top to 

 base; receptacle minute, rather deeply alveolate. 



