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TRANSCRIPTS OF SOME DESCRIPTIONS OF CALI- 



FORNIAN GENERA AND SPECIES.— III. 



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By J. Btjrtt Davy. 



Trifolium physopetalum, Fisch. et Mey.^ T, {Involu- 



craria) annuum, glaberrimum; caule ramoso diffuse; stipulis 

 late oyatis setaceo-mucronatis; foliolis (3) obovatis dentato- 

 serratis; pedunculis folio longioribus; involucri multifidi 

 lobis ovatis acuminatis integris capitulo multifloro (sub) 

 brevioribus; calycis byalini dentibus setaceis, 2 superioribus 

 abbreviatis; vexillo maximo inflate legumine stipitato sub- 

 tetraspermo. — Species distinctissima et in genere facile pul- 

 cherrima, capitulis Anthyllidem imitat Corolla magna 

 ochroleuca, alae macula lurida notatae, carina apice atro- 

 purpurea. — Hab. circa coloniam Euthenorum Eoss, in portu 

 Bodega Novae Californiae. O 



Index quintiis semimm, quae horius hofnnicus Imperialis 

 PetropolHanus pro mntua commuiatione offeri, acceduni 

 animadversiones hoianlcae nonmiUae. — 8vo.^^ 



GiLiA MiLLEFOLiATA, Fisch., Mey.36 Q. {Eugilia) pilosa, 

 ramosa; ramis diffusis apice nudis; foliis omnibus bi-tripin- 

 natisectis: laciniis sublinearibus integris; floribus 3—6 

 subaggregatis; calycis dentibus tubo suo duplo brevioribus; 

 corollas tubo calycem vix, limbum duplo excedente; capsula 

 ovata. — Affinis G. inconspicuae et G. ladniatae, sed calycis 



^Ulnd. Sem. Hort Petrop. iii (18) ^7 {im or '37); Linnxa xii, Utt- 

 Bencht, p. 107 (1838). Torrey & Gray reduce this to the rank of a 

 synonym of T. fucatum, and give 1837 as the date; however, this may be 

 a misprint, for they cite aa though it were published In the Index for 

 1837 wh,ch certainly was not the case, that being the Index quartus, 

 which was probably dated 1837 and published early in 1838. 



^l^fff/^''''^''^' """'' i>ecew!>n 1838 and signed by F. E. L. Fischer 

 and G. A. Meyer (possibly not printed till 1839). Extracts copied from 

 Ltnnwa xiii, Litteratur-Bericht, pp. 106—118 (1839). 



"Zl^'niZ ^Y' ^''"'^- ''' ^^ ^^^^ °' '29^5 Lian^a xiii, Litt.-Bericht, 



p. 109 1839) :="a diffuse and small-flowered form [of (?. muUicaulis, 

 Benth.]" Asa Gray. 



