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Stylocline acaule. K. 



Sternless heads sessile on the root crown in the earth, rarely upon it; size 

 of whole plant, %-% inch (range of fifty specimens) ; leaves spatulate, oblong 

 lamina, acute, tipped with a black gland or callous, white-woolly, narrow, 

 petiole expanding towards the base; outer scales and seeds as in the generic 

 description; the five inner more rigid ligneous involucrate series of scales sur- 

 rounding the sterile flower, narrower, acute, woolly on the inner face, glab- 

 rous outside; the single floret purple tipped; neither pappus nor setiform 

 hairs. 



Also among Dr. Eisen's collection we find the matured fruit of a beautiful 

 evergreen shrub, 3-5 feet high, the fruit of which has been hitherto unknown, 

 on which we offer a passing remark. In this specimen of Leucothce Varnsce. 

 Torr., the somewhat erect raceme from the final axils of the leaves is solitary 

 (the embryo buds at the base, however, show that under favorable auspices it 

 would be clustered); the pendulous flowers become somewhat erect at matu- 

 rity; the lower bracts of the base are short, rounded-cordate, cinnamon 

 brown; the bracteoles above more oblong, acute; the pedicels have also one or 

 two bractlets a little below the calyx, persistent; at length, as the fruit ma- 

 tures, become more or less deciduous; these are ovate acute; capsule de- 

 pressed, globose; valves thin, dry, chartaceous, almost translucent, suban- 

 gled and celled, opening loculicidally, each cell 1-2 seeds maturing out of 

 about 12 ovules; seed oblong-ovoid, slightly a little curved, rugose-pitted. 



Among Dr. Eisen's plants we find a form of what we take for Gilia achille- 

 afolia, var., wherein the stem is very scabrous, and scabrous glandular heads, 

 base, and the leaves, at their axils, woolly; the leaves 2-3 inches long, loosely 

 pectiuate-pinnatifid, linear lobes in 3-G pairs, %-l% inches long (rarely a lobe 

 subdivided); sparsely hirsute, petioles %-l inch long, woolly ciliate; flowers 

 smaller, stamens exserted; style shorter, and stigmas simple, etc. 



Sierra Nevada, at 4,000 feet. 



Among a package labeled "Vicinity of San Francisco," is a novel species of 

 Prosartes. Stem, 1-1% feet high, pubescent, two branched; leaves, 2-2% 

 inches long, 1-2 inches broad, subabruptly, acuminate, somewhat obliquely 

 cordate, closely clasping, pubescent, margin finely ciliate (scarcely scabru- 

 lose?). Perianth unequal, green or foliaceous, obscurely nerved, base acute; 

 sepals, 2-3 lines long (rarely 4 lines), 1-2 lines broad— the two outer being 

 the largest— outermost, and largest of all, ovate, or obovate, subacute; oppo- 

 site sepal oblong, subobtuse, the very short base slightly narrowed— the three 

 inner narrower; sepals lanceolate (all more or less obscurely nerved). Sta- 

 mens scarcely a little unequal exsert. Anthers linear-oblong, slightly en- 

 larged at base, sagLetite, glabrous, l%-2 lines long, filaments somewhat un- 

 equal, shoit, style glabrous, simple. Fruit not known. 



Among Dr. Eisen's Fresno plants is Bceria p'atycarpha, Gray. Flowering 

 in March. This shows some latitude of variation from the received descrip- 

 tion wi rlhy of a passing note. Iu plants of equal sti.tnre the parts are re- 

 duced in number; e. g., the involucral scales are only five, instead of 6-7; 

 awns of pappus, 3-4, instead of 7-8; leaves remotely laciniate toothed, three- 

 nerved, reticulate veined, etc. 



