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segments rotate-spreading, with recurved tips; fertile fila- 

 ments produced behind the anthers into a pair of ligulate, 

 emarginate appendages nearly equaling the linear-sagittate 

 anthers, and, like the very similar staminodia, ciliolate- 

 scabrous. — Macroscapa, Kell. 1. c. : Rupallei/a, Moriere, 1. c: 

 jSfropholirion Calif ornicum, Torr. 1. c. and Watson, 1. c. : 

 Dlchelosiemma Calif ormcura, Wood, 1. c. 



Of rather extended yet well defined habitat, being found 

 exclusively among the foothills on either side of the Sacra- 

 mento valley, but not crossing either divide of mountains; 

 thus ranging northward and southward for a hundred miles. 

 The figure in the Pacific Eailroad Keport is not very accur- 

 ate, for the angularity of the tube of the perianth is not at 

 all brought out; but this may be owing to the fact of the 

 artists having only dried specimens to work from; and in 

 such this character is not apparent. The scape is also 

 wrongly represented, twining as it were evenly and regu- 

 larly, like that of a Convolvulus, for almost its whole length, 

 a condition not likely to be found in reality. The plant in- 

 habits the outer borders of thickets and also the open 

 grounds adjacent to bushes. The scapes commonly grow 

 erect and independent of foreign support, and remain so 

 until toward the time of flowering; then a short coil of a few 

 very abrupt turns is made just below the umbel around 

 some more or less horizontally projecting branch or twig. 

 This is the condition of tall and luxuriant specimens grow- 

 ing near small trees and shrubs. Those farther off from 

 such extraneous supports twine in like fashion about each 

 other, or if entirely isolated, do not twine at all. All the 

 other species, except B, congesta, which has its own peculiar 

 mode of taking hold of bushes, are occasionally twining; 

 this one almost universally so. There is therefore no dif- 

 ference in habit between this and the other species, and Mr. 

 Baker's transference of it to this genus is one of the good 

 points which in his elaborate monograph, he has made with 



