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PROCEEDINGS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY 



Vicia Florid ana. Glabrous, with very slender elongated stems : 

 leaflets 2 or 3 pairs, oblong-elliptic, cuneate at base, rounded and 

 mucronate above, 5 to 10 lines long; stipules very small and narrow: 

 peduncle 1-6- (usually 1-2-) flowered, £ to 2 inches long: flowers 

 small and pale (3 lines long), on very short pedicels ; calyx-teeth 

 broad, much shorter than the campanulate tube: pod glabrous, 

 1-2-seeded, shortly stipitate, acuminate, | inch long by 2 lines broad 

 or more. — Florida, Buckley ; upper St. John's River, W. M. Canby ; 

 rich woods near Jacksonville, and shell-islands at mouth of St! 

 John's River, A. H. Curtiss. Apparently V. acutifolia var. 0, Torr. & 

 Gray, Flora, 1. 272; growing in large patches, and probably a 

 perennial. 



Bolandra Oregana. Resembling B. California in habit, but 

 stouter (15 to 20 inches high) and more pubescent and glandular 

 especially above : leaves laciniately toothed and lobed : flowers larger, 

 the calyx-tube (about 3 lines long) equalling the teeth and a little 

 shorter than the deep purple petals : pedicels reflexed in fruit : beaks 

 of the ovary and capsule more attenuate: seeds dull, dark brown, 

 a third of a line long. — On wet rocky banks of the Willamette River, 

 near Oregon City, Oregon ; J. Howell, June, 1877. 



Sullivantia Oregana. Stoloniferous, slender, with the habit of 

 S. Ohioensis, glandular above: leaves round-cordate, acutely and 

 rather laciniately toothed, an inch in diameter or less : petals obtuse, 

 oblong-obovate, a half longer than the sepals (1* lines long), some- 

 what eremite: seeds dark-brown and shining, narrowly winged, two 

 thirds of a line long. — Discovered by the same collector in the same 

 locality, and also on the rocky banks of the Columbia River.— 

 S. Ohioensis has oblanceolate acutish petals, and smaller light-brown 

 seeds with a thinner more distinct wing. It appears not to be 

 stoloniferous. 



Cotyledon Palmeri. Caulescent: leaves not at all mealy or 

 glaucous, reddish, lanceolate and acuminate (narrowing from the base 

 to a very sharp point), 2 inches long by 8 or lines wide at base, the 

 margin obtuse : stem a span long, red, with scattered broadly trian- 

 gular-ovate leaves, the lower more acuminate : inflorescence of a few 

 simple spreading secund racemes, somewhat glaucous : pedicels 3 to 6 

 lines long : calyx rather broad, with triangular-ovate sepals 2 lines 

 long: petals pale lemon-yellow, 5 or 6 lines long, scarcely carinate, 

 the midvein not glaucous : carpels 4 lines long, at length somewhat 

 spreading and with divergent styles. — San Simeon Bay, California ; 

 Dr. E. Palmer, 1877. 



