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TEANSCEIPTS OF SOME DESCEIPTIONS OF CALI- 



FOKNIAN GENEEA AND SPECIES,— I. 



By J. BuBTT Davt. 



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The following are copies of the generic and specific diag- 

 noses of Californian plants described in the St. Petersburg 

 Imperial Botanic Garden Seed Lists from 1834: to 1844, 

 inclusive. The types were cultivated specimens grown in the 

 Botanic Garden from Californian seed; this seed was collected 

 in the vicinity of Bodega Bay and the Kussian Eiver, north- 

 ern California, where a Russian fur-trading company had 

 its settlement. 



Every effort has been made to ensure absolute accuracy in 

 transcribing. I have not been able to obtain access to the 

 original seed-lists, owing to their rarity, and have therefore 

 been obliged to copy these descriptions from the pages of 

 Linnaea^ where they were re-printed by Schlechtendal less 

 than two years after publication. The foot-notes are mine; 

 the references to page of publication have been obtained from 

 various sources, and I am not able to verify them; the page- 

 number placed within brackets refers to the page on which 

 the name first appears (but as a nomen nudum) in the list; in 

 some botanical works it is the only one cited. 



Index secundus seminiim, quae hortus botamcus Impe- 



rialis PetropolUanus pro mutua commidatione offert. 

 Acceduni animadversiones hoianicae nonnullae; 8vo (horti 

 director F, E. L. Fischer, adjunctus 0. A. Meyer)/ 



Amsinckia intermedia.* a, corolla f auce glabra nuda, limbo 

 tubo subbreviore; staminibus ad faucem insertis. — CoroUae 

 tubus 1^ lin. longus, limbus fere 3 lin. in diametro, saturate 

 aurantiacus maculisque 5 saturatioribus pictus. — Species in- 

 termedia A. lycopsioidem inter et A. spectabilem; a priore 

 dignoscitur insertione staminumj a posteriore corollis longe 

 minoribus et praesertim coroUae tubo non (ut in ilia) ad 



Dated December, 1835. Extracts reprinted from Linnaea xi, 

 Litteratur-Bericht, pp. 93-124 (1837). 



F. & M,j Index 1. c. 26; Linnaea 1. c. 94. 



