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nolepis ? [Eatonella) nivea, Gray, Bot. Calif, i. 379. — Eastern side of 

 the Sierra Nevada, Watson^ Lemmon. 



Eatonella Gongdoni. Floccoso-lanata ; caulibus ultraspitha- 

 maiis ; foliis sparsis oblongo-linearious sajpe siuuato-dcntatis vol 

 repandis ; involucri bracteis lato-oblongis ; ligulis ut videtur nullis ; 

 corollis disci 4-dcntatis ; acheniis ovalibus faciebus pubescentibus mox 

 glabratis, extimis triquetro-obcompressis, cteteris plano-compressis ; 

 pappo villum achenii baud supcrante, paleis paucis diaphanis eroso- 

 laciniatis muticis. — Deer Creek, Tulare Co., California, J. W. Cong- 

 don, and soutliern part of the San Joaquin Valley, Parry. 



The suggestion that the original species was of a new genus being 

 now confirmed by the discovery of a second species, though of some- 

 what different habit, the genus is now characterized, and named in 

 honor of Professor Daniel Cady Eaton of Yale College, who elabo- 

 rated the Compositor of Mr. S. Watson's collection in King's expedition 

 along the fortieth parallel, in the published report of which E. nivea 

 is described and figured, and its peculiarities indicated. One would 

 wish that the name of our most accomplished pteridologist should be 

 associated with a new genus of Ferns, but such are not met with. 

 We must be content with a genus of the order which, next to Ferns, 

 he has most studied, and the type of which he has himself illustrated. 

 Although the habit and other characters arc of the Bahia group, the 

 achenia refer it to the subtribe Peritylece. 



MoNOi.OPiA GRACiLENS. E grcge 31. majoris, multum tenuior, 

 paniculatim ramosa ; foliis linearibus vel lanceolatis ; involucri parvuli 

 (^-pollicaris) bracteis 8 ad basim usque discretis ; acheniis glabratis. — 

 Coast Range of California, near New Almaden and Santa Cruz, Torrey, 

 1865, and later collected by S. G. Isaman (received from Prof. Bailey), 

 Bolander, and Prinrjlc. 



Syntrichopappits LE:\niONi. Nana, gracilis, lana laxa mox 

 decidua; foliis spathulatis sen linearibus integerrimis ; involucri brac- 

 teis 6 vel 8 angusto-oblongls ; ligulis parvulis roseo-albis ; corollis 

 disci luteis ; pappo nullo. — Acthiolepis Lemmoni, Gray, Proc. Am. 

 Acad. xvi. 102. — S. E. California, on the Mohave Desert, Lemmon. 

 Summit of Cajon Pass, Parish. — This little plant is found to have 

 the very short proper tube and elongated throat of the corolla and the 

 asteroid style-branches of Syntrichopappits. So that, in the readjust- 

 ment of the related forms, this is left to go into the latter genus, not- 

 withstanding the absence of pappus. 



Baeria, Fisch. & Meyer, as extended by Bentham in the Gen. 

 Plantarum {Burrielia excluded chiefly on account of its slender style- 



