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globose, or in twos, when they are hemispherical and very flat on 

 the ventral side ; beak very short, chalaza narrow, elongated, 

 groove without any visible rhaphe. 



Michaux found it abundant on river banks in Illinois, but he 

 may have confounded it with V. riparia, which is very abundant 

 there. Mr. Eggert collected it in Missouri, on the Mississippi, 

 in low bottom land, opposite Alton, not far above the mouth of 

 the Missouri river, where it is found with V. riparia, flowering 

 later than any other of our species here, in this very late season 

 apparently not before the 15th or 20th of June; it matures in 

 October, and the berries remain on the vine till November and 

 later ; their taste is sweet, without any disagreeable admixture. 

 The plant, like V. riparia, grows readily from cuttings. 



The species resembles V. riparia in the broad sinus of the 

 leaves and the form of the seeds, but it is distinguished by the 

 deep red color of the stems, which are angular when young, not 

 terete, the thick diaphragms, the very small stipules, the dull, 

 dusky color of the leaves and the form of their lobes, the bloom- 

 less berries, the large seeds and the late flowering period. With 

 V. cordifolia it has very little in common, except the thick dia- 

 phragm and the bloomless berries. The absence of a prominent 

 rhaphe on the seeds distinguishes it at once, and no other species 

 could possibly be confounded with it. — G. Engelmann,^. Louis, 

 June 7, 1883. 



Notulje Californicse. 



Saxifraga malvcefolia, Greene. Bull. Torr. Club. IX. 121. 

 In addition to the single specimen on which the species was 

 founded, two more have lately come to light in the herbarium of 

 the California Academy; and this further information has been 

 obtained. The plant was collected by Dr. Kellogg and Mr. 

 Harford, in the autumn of 1876, on Santa Cruz Island, not Santa 

 Rosa, as stated in the note accompanying the printed character. 

 All three of the specimens now known show strongly the woody 

 fibrous root (without any trace of bulb, or tuber), the leaves ap- 

 pearing simultaneously with the flowers, and the broad calyx, 

 which are the characters by which the species is well distinguished 

 from the closely allied S. Parryi, Torr , known only on the main 

 land in the south part of the State. 



Lytlirum Hyssopi folia, L., not accredited to California, was 

 collected by the present writer, at Calistoga, as long ago as 1874, 

 and is observed to be very common near the shore of the bay at 

 West Berkeley. 



