174 PROCEEDINGS OF THE ACADEMY OF 



ODONTOSTOMUM, Torr. {'OScic, tooth, ctto/**, mouth.) 



Perianth salver-form, tube cjlindric, limb of 6 equal spreading segments as 

 long as tube ; stamens 6, perigynous to top of tube, alternating with as many- 

 sterile filaments ; style filiform ; ovary globous, nearly free, 3-celled, 6-ovuled, 

 capsule 6- seeded. — Bulbous, with broad linear leaves sheathing the divaricately 

 branched stem. Flowers small, racemed, white. 



0. Hartwegii Torr. — Foot hills, Yuba, Placer and Sacramento counties. 1 

 — 2 f. Radical leaves flat, 3 — 6^'' wide, 5 — V-veined. Segments 5-veined, 

 reflexed after flowering. Stamens and sterile fil. barely exserted. May. 



Tribe UL—SMILACINU^. 



Smilacina eacemosa Desf. — Common in the Redwood hills, Pejaro to the 

 Russian R., Cal. In no wise different from the eastern plant. 



S. stellata Desf. — Santa Cruz, with the last, north to the Columbia River 

 from Astoria to the Dalles. 1 f. Raceme loose, few-flowered. Berries red. 



Clintonia Andrewsii Torr. Root fibrous ; leaves few, lance-oval, abruptly 

 pointed, sheathing at base, veins running from base to apex ; scape taller than 

 the leaves, bracted, bearing 2 — 4 umbels, the terminal 10 — 20-flowered, the 

 lateral 2 — 4-flowered ; flowers bell-shaped, yellowish, 8^^ long ; segments 

 obtuse; berries 3-celled; cells 8 — 10-seeded. — Mountain woods near Santa 

 Cruz to the Russian R. A handsome plant, 1 — 2 f. May. 



C. uniflora Kunth. Root tuberous ; leaves 2 or 3, lance- oblong, abruptly 

 pointed, margins ciliate ; scape not longer than the leaves, bearing one large 

 white flower ; segments same shape as the leaves, IC'' long, stamens shorter; 

 berry obovoid, as large as a pea, 9-seeded, blue. — Northern declivities of Mt. 

 Hood (Mr. Brazee), Cascades to Vancouver ! June, July. 



Majanthemum bifolium DC. /?. dilatatum. — From Astoria to the Dalles, north 

 and east. Leaves generally 3, broad-cordate, 3 — 5'' diameter! Stem 6 — lO'. 

 Exactly like the eastern plant, except its gigantic size. June. [Smilacma 

 dilatala, Nutt.) 



Tribe IV.— UVULARIEjE. 



Prosartes Hookeri Torr. Stout, leafy, scabrous- puberulent ; leaves broad- 

 ly ovate, acuminate, deeply cordate-amplexicaul ; umbels 3 — 4-flowered, seg- 

 ments spatulate, obtusish ; anthers oblong, glabrous; stigma entire. — Santa 

 Cruz to Oakland hills, &c. 2 f. Leaves 2^ broad, strongly veined. Stem and 

 branches reddish, pubescent. Flowers greenish-yellow, 9^^ long. April. 

 ( Uvularia lanuginosa, p. major Hook.) 



P. Menziesii Don. Nearly glabrous ; leaves lance-oblong or ovate acumi- 

 nate, sessile, or subcordate -clasping ; umbels terminal, 1 — 3-flowered ; flowers 

 bell-shaped, pendulous, as long as their stalks ; segments linear-lanceolate, 

 acuminate (6''^), the stamens often longer, and the slender style still longer ; 

 berry lemon-shaped, orange- colored, with 6 rounded seeds. — Santa Cruz to the 

 Columbia. Stem 2 f., erect to first branch, then secund. Flowers greenish. 

 May. ( Uvularia Hook.) 



Streptopus amplexifolids DC. — Washington Co., Oregon (Mr. E.Walker). 

 Glabrous. Leaves glaucous beneath. Berries red, oblong, 15 — 21-seeded. 



Notice of some VERTEBBATE BEUAINS from Harden Co., Texas. 



BY JOSEPH LEIDY, M. D. 



The following described fossils were submitted to my examination by Messrs. 

 Geo. N. Lawrence and D. G. Elliot, of New York. They are reported to have 

 been obtained from blue clay aud sand, beneath a bed of bitumen, in Harden 



[June, 



