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Tliis species, -«'hich until recently would have been called Otoli- 

 thus, belongs, quite manifestly, to that division to which Mr. Gill 

 has given the name Cynoscion. The species is well marked, and 

 easily recognized by the characters given. A single specimen only 

 has yet been seen. This was brought from the coast of Lower Cal- 

 ifornia, in about Lat. 21^ N., by Capt. C. M. Scammon ; it is 

 nineteen inches in length. 



December 15th, 1861. 



President in the Chair. 



Dr. Kellogg read the following description of a plant brought 

 from the coast range at some point north of San Francisco : 



Walilenhergia Californica, (Kellogg). Fig. 49. 



Stem simple, weakly, ascending slightly, two wing margined 

 edges retrorsely aculeate, glabrous ; flowers mostly solitary and 

 terminal on long peduncles, (or rarely an axillary rudiment below) 

 about four to six mches in height. 



Leaves alternate, ovate, sub-acute, mucronate, dentate ; teeth 

 mucronate, margins retrorsely aculeate, lamina thin, veiny, naked, 

 sub-three-nerved at the base, sub-sessile. Calycine tul)e obconically 

 campanidate, border five-lobed, strongly ten-nerved — five of which 

 are from the sinuses ; segments lance-lmear, very acute, con- 

 spicuously one-nerved or obscurely five-nerved ; margms retrorsely 

 aculeate, about one-fourth of an inch in length, or half the length of 

 the corolla. Corolla monopetalous, erect, funnel-form, border five- 

 cleft, division lanceolate acute, about ten-veined, twice the length 

 of the calyx ; pale blue. 



Pistil as long as the tube, minutely pubescent, stigma two-parted ; 

 stamens shorter than the style, filaments somewhat flattened below, 

 minutely short pubescent. 



Mature fruit unknown. 



Remarks. — The extreme delicacy of the flowers and fewness of 

 specimens have prevented us from obtaining as thorougli a knowl- 

 edge of the plant as is desirable. Our figure is from a dried 'speci- 

 men. 



From such investigations as we have been able to make, no plant 

 of this genus appears to have been collected on this coast. They 

 are chiefly found at the Cape of Good Hope, and in India and Japan, 

 also Australia and on the Islands ; a few are found on the calcareous 

 soils of mountains in the Southern hemisphere. We hope to be 

 able to return and do more ample justice to the plant at some future 

 time. 



