MISCELLANEOUS SPECIES. 13 
Sracuys CaLrFonNICA, Benth.; DC. Prod. xii. 469.—An 
excellent species which Mr. Bentham could, in dried speci- 
mens, distinguish from S. bullata, but which American botan- 
ists in California as well as in Massachusetts have hitherto 
confounded with it. 
It is many times larger (3—6 feet high) than S. bullata 
(1—2 feet): the herbage is very strongly aromatic, owing to 
abundant resinous dots on the lower face of the ample ovate- 
cordate leaves, with which the oblong-leaved S. bullata is not 
` furnished : the corollas are of a deeper purple and have, when 
seen alive, a different aspect which when sought into appears 
to come from this, that the large lower lip has its two lateral 
lobes reflexed, the large middle one remaining concave, while 
in S. bullata the whole lower lip, middle lobe and all, has its 
margin reflexed. 
. S. Californica grows rankly in thickets and along streams to 
the southward of San Francisco throughout the State, and will 
perhaps include the S. acuminata, Greene (Bull. Cal. Acad. ii. 
410); but this is not settled. It is six weeks later in flowering 
than is S. bullata, whose habitat is dry and open grounds 
chiefly, and to the eastward and far northward of that indi- 
cated for the other. 
MUILLA TRANSMONTANA. Corm an inch or more in diameter, 
deep-seated : scape a foot or less in height, fusiform-enlarged 
for the length of an inch partly above and partly below the 
surface of the ground: umbel 12——30-flowered ; pedicels an 
inch long or more: perianth rotate, white, fading with a tinge 
of lilac, the segments 3 lines long: filaments white-petaloid, 
ovate-acuminate, rather thick and fleshy, their margins meet- 
ing at base (but without increased dilatation ) forming a shal- 
low nectar-holding cup around the ovary: anthers minute, 
not a half line long, fixed by the middle. 
At Reno, Nevada ; fresh specimens communicated by Miss 
Amy Pease. : [p 
Very clearly distinct from the Californian maritime plant, 
