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Lower palet convex, tbree-nerved. awned from below the two-cleft tip; upper 

 boat-shaped, two-uerved, bifid at the apex. Awn tortuous, scabrous, one-fourth 

 of an inch long, slightly bent above the middle. Stamens three ; anthers smooth, 

 one-fourth of an inch long. 



Blue Canon, Sierra Nevada, July, 1870. 



Dr. J. D. B. Stiliman was a pioneer botanist of California, who, when the 

 most of the first settlers were bent only on collecting the auriferous treasures of 

 the placers, performed a journey through the northern part of the Stafe for the 

 purpose of making a collection of California plants, which he forwarded to Dr. 

 Torrey. A number of new species were contributed by him, and the collection 

 was of great service to the veteran botanist in making up his reports on the 

 flora of this coast, as appeals by the frequent references by him to the collec- 

 tion, in the Pacific Railroad and Mexican Boundary surveys. 



In acknowledgment of this service. Dr. Torrey named a new species of Lepto- 

 syne after him. No subsequent explorer has succeeded in finding this species. 

 In order to carry out the intentions of Dr. Torrey, and beyond all peradventure 

 to connect the name of Dr. Stiliman with the flora of this State, I take great 

 pleasure in naming this most excellent and showy species after him. 



9. St/pa (Lasiagrostis) Kingii Bol. {Sp. not;).— Root perennial, fibrous. 

 Culms csespitose, erect, terete, smooth ; six to fifteen inches high ; bear two 

 small leaflets linear near the base; free from nodes. Sheaths striate, smooth. 

 Ligules exserted, acute, bifid. Cauliae leaves tufted ; six to nine inches long ; 

 linear terete ; retrorsely scabrous. 



Panicle erect, simple ; linear oblong ; branchlets in threes and twos ; scab- 

 rous, appressed, unequal ; less than an inch long ; two to three-flowered. 



Glumes one-eighth of an inch long ; somewhat unequal, oblong, obtuse and 

 erose at the apex ; hyalinous, tinged with purple at the base. Palets nearly 

 equal, pubescent, chartaceous ; as long as the lower glume ; lower convex ; 

 awned i'rom below the minutely two-cleft obtuse tip. Awn scabrous ; half an 

 inch long; bent at the middle. Upper palet with a minute tuft of hair at the 

 obtuse bifid apex. 



Stamens three ; anthers bearded at the tip and divergent at the base. 

 No. 6076 of Catalogue. 



Meadows and open woods near Mount Dana, seven to twelve thousand feet 

 altitude. September, 1866. 



Dr. Cooper presented a paper on the shells collected by Mr. 

 Henry Hemphill in the adjoining States and territories. 



