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T. californieum (Kellogg). Fig. 2. Stem glabrous, slightly 

 decurrent, angled, six to eight inches in height. 



Peduncle erect, angular, two and a half to three inches long 

 (light crimson). 



Flowers, erect, spreading, petals greenish white, purple checked 

 above, oval-lanceolate, acute, flat, distinctly five-nerved, (or obscurely 

 nine-nerved) reticulate veined, about one-quarter longer than the 

 sepals, (one and one-half to 2 inches long by one broad) stamens 

 nearly one-half as long, stigmas recurved ; sepals, broad lanceolate, 

 one-half an inch wide, acuminate three-nerved, (two other outer 

 nerves obscure) purplish spotted towards the apex ; fruit, six- 

 winged (in the one-half grown state) ; leaves rhombic-obovate, 

 broadly cuneate at base, abruptly short acuminate, five-nerved ; 

 margin waved, reticulate, sessile, purple checked toward the upper 

 third. 



Leaves about three inches long, and nearly the same in breadth. 



This specimen diifers from T. erectam, in the flower not " nod- 

 ding" nor at all "inclined ;" petals not " acuminate," nor " equal- 

 ling sepals ; " nor are the leaves " three-nerved," etc. 



It is near T. grandijiorum, but the petals are not " connivent," 

 nor " obovate," nor " spatulate lanceolate," nor is the flower 

 '' inclined," neither is the leaf " acute," nor " rhombic-ovate." 



June 4, 1860. 

 President in the Chair. 

 Dr. Kellogg presented the annexed description : 



The following described plant is one very familiar to us for the 

 last eight years. It is very abundant in damp and boggy localities 

 in the vicinity of San Francisco. The seeds have been sold in the 

 city of San Francisco for many years past under various names, as 

 6« g- " yellow-eyed grass, " yellow Pigmy Lily," Star-grass Lily, 

 etc. The frail, delicate flower is so ephemeral, and infolds so 

 quickly, like a Morning Glory, that we have been fain to pass it by 

 from time to time, hoping to succeed better the next opportunity. 

 And besides, a plant so familiar to our walks, it seemed fair to pre- 

 sume must be known. We have examined all the accessible authori- 

 ties, and find no description answering to it. We therefore give 

 the subjoined description, and ofier the provisional name of 



Sisi/rinchiu7n flavidum (KeWogg) . Fig. 3. Scape simple, erect, 

 broadly winged or ancipital, six to seventeen inches iu height, 

 margin sparsely scabrous. 



