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Regular Meeting, August 20th, 1876. 

 Vice-President Hyde in the Chair. 



In addition to the usual exchanges there were presented to the 

 Library two volumes of the Annals of the Observatory of Mad- 

 rid, and two volumes of Hayden's U. S. Geological Survey. 



Dr. Kellogg read the following: 

 Notes and Descriptions of some Califoriiiaii Plants. 



BX DE. A. KELLOGG. 



Dr. G. Eisen, of Sweden, placed in our hands for determination his plants 

 collected near Fresno, Cal. A species of mimulus appears to be new. 



Mimului Msenii. K. 



Viscid-glandrdar chiefly above, somewhat pubescent throughout, %-l foot 

 branching from the base, whole plant more or less purplish. Radicle and 

 lower cauline leaves 1-2 inches long, on slender petioles; laminal outline 

 ovat§-oblong, oblong, or oblong-subspatulate, pinuatifid, rachis nerved, nar- 

 rowing into the petiole, which from long becomes equal in the lower cauline, 

 at length very short toward the summit, but all petiolate; lobes variably den- 

 ticulate, somewhat hispid and cilliate, simply denticulate-pinnatifid in the 

 upper reduced leaves; peduncles subsetiiorm as long as the flower; calyx 

 colored, pinkish above, yellowish beneath dotted with larpe purple spots in 

 lines chiefly on the upper side, at length becoming oblique %-% the pedun- 

 cle; teeth somewhat triangular-acute, lower a little shorter or subequal in 

 flower, 1-2 lines, carinately incurved, closing the throat toward maturity; 

 upper tooth elongating to apparently twice the length of the lower or nearly 

 half the length of the calyx upwardly curving; corolla yellow, a single lower 

 lobe often white, about five lines or twice the calyx; tube slender, throat ex- 

 panding, lobes about equal; capsule oblong, obtuse, narrowing at the base 

 into a short stipe. 

 Also a Vicia, which appears to be new. 



Vicia nana. K. 



A very low (3-6 inches) and slender perennial, erect or ascending, flexuous, 

 sub-four-angled, branching from the base, finely pubescent or nearly glabrous 

 throughout; leaves short, about one inch, tendrils simple or rudimentary; 

 leaflets one to three pairs (or more?), thin nerved, obovate or oval-elliptic, 

 mucronate about half-iuch long; stipules narrow lance-acuminate, entire, de- 



