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tall species (base of stem not seen), with somewhat the habit of A. 

 pictus and of several of the Jiomalobi ; the legume resembling that of 

 A. WJdtiieyi, but of neither that nor of this species have we fully grown 

 pods. 



4. Miscellanece. 



BoYKiNiA ROTUNDIFOLTA, Parry in litt. Bipedalis, pilis longis 

 arachnoideis subdeciduis et brevioribus subglanduliferis viscosis pubes- 

 cens ; caule ad apicem subtequaliter folioso; foliis rotundatis ambitu 

 crenato-inci.-^is (vix lobatis) lobulis pauci-dentatis, radicalibus cauli- 

 nisque cordatis baud stipulatis, summis ovaJibus grosse dentatis ; 

 pedunculis plerisque axillaribus cymam stepius biradiatam secundifloram 

 gerentibiis ; calyce hirto campanulato, lobis latis tubo brevioribus petala 

 (a^stivatione quincunciali) subiBqiiantibus ; antheris oblongis ; seminibus 

 ovali-oblongis. — San Bernardino Co., California, Parry & Leminon, 

 coll. 1876, no. 113. 



Galium (Relbunium) makgaricoccuji. E radice perenni dura 

 diffusum, herbaceum, laxe ramosum, subglabrum ; caulibus inermibus ; 

 foliis quaternis summisve tantum biuis (nunc 2 intermediis miuoribus) 

 angusto-oblongis vel lato-linearibus aveniis (lin. 3-6 longis), costa 

 nuda, marginibus tenuiter aculeolato-hirtellis ; pedicellis solitariis vel sub- 

 ternis folia ultima 1-4-na scepius ajquantibus ; corolla sordida? (fere 

 lineam lata) ; fructu insigniter baccato albo (lin. 2 et ultra lato). — 

 Dry hillsides, Calaveras to Mariposa Co., California, on the walls of 

 the Yosemite Valley, &c. In the Botany of California, i. 283, this is 

 mixed with G. Nuttallii, but no station which pertains to it is cited. 

 It was collected during the past summer by Sir J. D. Hooker and my- 

 self, in full fruit; when the very juicy berries are pearly white and 

 conspicuous. The color of the fruit of G. Nuttallii is unknown. But 

 that is a more upright or climbing species, with broader and shorter or 

 smaller leaves, which have conspicuously aculeolate margins, as have 

 the angles of the stem more or less. And it belongs to the coast- 

 region, from the Bay of San Francisco southward. 



These, along with the allied North American species, belong to the 

 section Relbunium of Torr. & Gray, Fl.. N. Am. ii. 21, characterized 

 by the baccate fruit from a tetramerous flower, but not to the genus 

 Relbunium of Bentham and Hooker, if the character depends on an 

 involucre unlike the foliage, and subtending a sessile or subsessile 

 flower, as in a few S. American species. G, microphyUum, Gray, has 

 the flower thus iuvolucrate, but the involucre is similar to the proper 

 foliage. 



