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Clarkia Eiseneana. K. 



Stem glabrous and glaucous, 1-1% feet high, erect, branching above; leaves 

 ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong, acute or subacute, repand-denticulate, 

 sessile, lowest leaves subsessile or vei-y short petioled; petals entire, lamina 

 rhombic on a long slender claw, toothed on one side at the insertion; alter- 

 nate stamens perfect, a broad densely hairy scale at the base of these filaments 

 in front or on the inside, stigma-lobes equal, the very slender linear capsule 

 sessile, 2-3 times as long as the obpyramidal calyx tube, hirsute together with 

 the calyx. 



Camping with Mr. Galen Clarke, he brought in the following: 



Potentilla Clarkiana. K. 



Stem perennial, tufted or dwarfed, and depressed %-l% inches, bearing a 

 single pair of opposite rudimentary leaves, pubescence scanty, at length glab- 

 rous; leaves ternate, leaflets nearly orbicular 4-6 lines, coarsely 5-6-toothed 

 (if simple, 7-toothed), terminal leaflets short petiolulate; bractlets half as long 

 as the calyx lobes, subacute; petals yellow, shorter than the calyx; about one- 

 flowered. 



Regular Meeting, September 4th, 1876. 

 Dr. A. B. Stout in the Chair. 



Twenty-two members present. 



Win. G-. Kreuger and Thos. MurfYen were proposed for mem- 

 bership. 



Donations to the Museum: From Mr. W. P. Truesdell, tar- 

 antula and nest. From W. J. Fisher and Henry Edwards, 

 specimens of Crustaceae. Also, ten fish from Mr. Lockington. 



W. N. Lockington read the following: 



Remarks on the Crustacea of the West Coast of North 

 America, with a Catalogue of the Species iu the 

 Museum of the California Academy of Sciences. 



BY W. N. LOCKINGTON. 



CANCROIDEA. 



Family Canckid^;. Sub-Family Canoeing. 



No new species of this sub-family appears to have been found since Stimp- 

 son described Cancer antennarius. 



Cancer magister. Dana. U. S. Ex. Exp., I, 151, pi. VII, fig. 1. Stimpson, 

 Crust, and Ech. Pac. S. N. A., 18;Proc. Cal. Acad. Sci., 1, 88. Can- 

 cer irroratus. Randall (not Say.) Lockington, Proc. Cal. Acad. 

 Sci., 1876. 



