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form of the true European Bellis perennis, found by him in Throckmorton's 

 Canon, growing in moist ground, near the foot of Mt. Tamelpais, in a per- 

 fectly wild state, remote from any habitation. It has been duly studied, and 

 carefully analyzed, and is undoubtedly the plant indicated; of course, it only 

 now sports a single series of white rays tiuged at the tips with purple; is 

 slightly reduced in size; the floret tubes proper are more hairy; stigmatic 

 appendages not quite so broad, and rather more elongated, when compared 

 with the cultivated plant; the first flowers are on true scapes, later flowers on 

 very short or tufted stems; occasionally a leaf develops on the proper pedun- 

 cle above the rosulate clustered foliage below. 



Nemopliila modesta. K. 



Slender, weak and prostrate (1-1% feet); leaves opposite pinnatifid, lobes 

 3-5, broadly lanceolate entire, sparsely hirsute above and along the veins be- 

 neath, subsessile, the narrowing base cilliate; peduncles axillary, hirsute, 3-4 

 inches long, or 3-5 times the leaves, erect but recurving near the capsule ; 

 calyx auriculate and increasing to age, lobes ovate, acute, hirsute; flowers 

 large (6 to 8 lines), blue with deeper blue veins and purple spotted, hirsute 

 within at the base, twice the length of calyx, naked (no scales, folds or 

 ligules at the base of filaments) ; stamins 3 long and 2 shorter, base hirsute 

 (anthers dark purple); style 2-parted above, hirsute below, stigmas capitate; 

 capsules hairy, 6-seeded, seeds large and rough. 



Found by Kellogg and McLean, near the Guadalupe Quicksilver Mine. 



Dr. Eisen also collected specimens of a charming little annual Lupin: 



Lupinus citrinus. K. 



A low, slender annual, barely a span high, erect and ascending, branched from 

 the base, hairy throughout; lower leaves long slender petioled (relatively shorter 

 above, or from about three inches to less than an inch) ; leaflets liiiear-spatu- 

 late, attenuate at base, somewhat canaliculate, mucronajje, 6-8, %-%-inch 

 long, 1-2 lines wide, stipules adnate, somewhat membranous, lance-subulate, 

 weakly attenuate, 4-6 lines long; main raceme 4-6 inches, those of the 

 branches 3-4, rather closely flowered from near the base (common peduncle 

 naked below about 1 inch) ; pedicels short and slender; bracts linear-lance- 

 acuminate deciduous; calyx colored, short, upper lip 2-parted, lobes acute, 

 or subacute, lower about equal, minutely 3-toothed, bracteoles minutely ob- 

 scure or wanting; flowers bright orange or golden, rounded banner dotted 

 with a few oblong pale bluish spots near the infolded centre; wings obtuse, 

 nearly as broad as long; keel naked; creamy-hued pod, oblong-linear, 7-lines 

 long by 1% wide, torulose, glabrous, 4-seeded, seeds rhomboid, lenticular, 

 black blotched at the germinal end and black spotted along the ridge of the 

 beveled margin, on a leaden ground. 



Owing to the very obtuse inflated wings conforming to the general outline 

 and size of the banner, gives the flowers somewhat the appearance of beads of 

 gold. A charming plant for cultivation. 



Dr. Eisen also brings to light a new species of Clarkia. 



