168 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CALIFORNIA 



On motion, Mr. Carlton was exonerated from blame. 

 The new Constitution was read by sections, and, with sundry 

 amendments, was adopted ; after which the Academy adjourned. 



Regular Meeting, June 5th, 1871. 



The President being absent, Mr. H. G. Bloomer was called to 

 the Chair. 



Mr. A. D. Hodges, Jr., was elected resident member. 



Donations to the Cabinet : A bundle of rods, having the appear- 

 ance of dried willow switches, was presented to the Academy. It 

 was sent from the northern part of Vancouver's Island, with no in- 

 formation accompanying it except that they were " skeletons of a 

 kind of fish." It was thought by some to be the internal structure 

 of a species of zoophyte allied to Virgularia. Some dried plants 

 were received from Professor Gay, of England, forwarded by Pro- 

 fessor Gray, of Cambridge. 



Mr. E. Durand presented some of the borings from an artesian 

 well near the Eighth street sugar refinery; also some silico-argilla- 

 ceous slate from the corner of Pine and Powell streets, accompa- 

 nied by remarks on the same. Mr. Bloomer exhibited a very pro- 

 lific specimen of Fritillaria lanceolata, collected by Mr. Dunn. 



Professor Bolander presented nine species of grasses of the genus 

 Stipa, three of which were entirely new, with the following 

 description : 



The Genus Stipa in California. 



BY HEXRY N. BOLANDER. 



The follow!u<i' well-marked species of the germs Stipa have been collecteii by 

 me, thus I'ar. in the State of California : 



1. Stipa sctigera Presl. — Dry hill-sides of the Coast Ranges and the foot-hills 

 of the Sierra Nevada, New Mexico, and southward. April and May. 



2. Stipa emincns Cav. — Dry hill-sides of the Coast Ranges and the foot-hills 

 of the Sierra Nevada. April and May. 



3. Sttpa Bloomeri Bol. {Sp. nov).— Root perennial ; fibres tomentose. Culms 

 two to two and a-half feet high ; ca33pitose, smooth. Sheaths striate, smooth, 

 shorter than their internodes. The ui)permost, somewhat inflated sheath, in- 

 cludes the eig-ht to ten inches long branches of the panicle. Ligules exserted, ' 



