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branched, forming a tuft a foot broad and nearly as high, 
glabrous and very glutinous; branchlets angular, the mono- 
cephalous terminal ones divaricate : leaves linear-lanceolate, 
entire, cuneate below and sessile, about an inch long, on the 
branchlets under the heads reduced to very small reeurved 
bracts: heads cylindrical, a line and a half long, the involu- 
cral scales firm, colorless except the green appressed and 
obtuse tips, imbrieated ; rays few, very short, white or 
yellowish, changing to rose-red. 
Northern shore of San Bartolomé Bay, Lower California, 
27 April, 1889; Lieut. Charles F. Pond, U.S. N. 
REMINISCENCES OF Major Jonn E. Le Con re. 
Bx Mary Gnanaw.! 
The best biographical notice of Major Le Conte which I 
have seen was published by his friend, William Sharswood 
of Philadelphia; a pamphlet of sixteen pages, including a 
list of some forty of his published scientific papers. This 
Neerology, as the author entitles it, is admirably written, as 
in the spirit of profound admiration and warm friendship ; 
but he says: “Of his early history I know but little, except 
that he was of Huguenot descent." 
Dr. Torrey told me that he remembered well Mr. Le Conte, 
the father of the subject of these Reminiscences; that this 
! My friend Miss Graham, who in earlier life, as a member of the 
household of Major Le Conte, was well aequainted with Dr. Torrey and 
other eminent scientific and literary persons who were often gathered 
there, has more than once delighted me with the rehearsal of such facts 
and ineidents as these which, after long entreaty, she has noted down 
and given me, that I might place them upon record for the pleasure of 
others to whom Major Le Conte was not known personally.—z. L. G. 
