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Spanish botanist, Mocino, had given a wrong locality 

 to P. Nutkana, '-as no species of the genus had been 

 found by other observers on the Pacific coast of N. 

 America." More recently, however, Nuttall found 

 a specimen of the P. X. in California, which he de- 

 scrbed under the name of P. Californica. 



P. corsl'ta.— Kellogg, or Horned Milkwort. 



Stem perennial, branching, bright green, glabrous, 

 somewhat glaucous, warted, erect. 



Upper leaves oblong-lanceolate, mostly obtuse, ap- 

 proximate, mucronate. margins pellucid very entire, 

 alike green and glabrous on both sides ; lower leaves 

 obovate emarginate ; on short petioles, alternate 

 veins scarcely visible. 



Flowers in a loose spike, C to S or more, fertile on 

 the topmost attenuated branchlets, pale yellow with 

 greenisn tinge, often shaded with pale lilac ; rachis, 

 pedicels, calyx and petals, puberulent ; bracts subu- 

 late, g of an ineh long, or as long as the pedicels, the 

 small posterior upper division of the calyx ovate, 

 acute, sub-gibbous by the somewhat produced com- 

 mon claw ; glandless, the 2-lower 1-10 of an inch in 

 advance of the upper, ovate, sub-acute ; 2-lateral 

 calycine wings, obovate-oblong obtuse, oblique ; § 

 of an inch long, the proper petal wings linear obtuse 

 about the same length. 



Keel i longer, abruptly bent downwards, large, 

 rounded obtuse, crested with a little horn-like pro- 

 cess, hooked, or curve! upwards, filaments and claws 

 united into a broad cleft tube ; upper edge of the 

 filamentous ridge very pubescent (pale lilac ?) free 

 portion hirsute, 1-10 of an inch long, anthers 8, white, 

 finally opening at the side along an obscure septal 

 line, pistil 4 or o times the length of the capsule, in- 

 curved stigma enlarged, unequally 2-lobed. 



Capsule, glabrous, entire, flat, orbicular-2-celled, 

 one seed in each cell. 



Seed oblong, glabrous, caruncle about ithe length 

 of the seed, glabrous ? 



Dr. Kellogg presented specimens of a new and sin- 

 gular Pentstemon, with a drawing. 



P carinatus, Kellogg. Keeled Bearded-tongue. 



Stem glabrous, erect, terete, one to one and a-half 

 feet high. 



Leaves opposite linear-lanceolate 3- nerved at the 

 base, and somewhat extra triplinerved above, re- 

 motely dentate, teeth minute acute, glabrous, peti- 

 oles very short, a clasping base; upper, narrow, ses- 

 sile, entire, recurved. 



Flowers in a terminal panicle of opposite and de- 

 cussate branchlets, each forming rather close panicu- 

 late corymbs of 6 to 9 flowers. 



Calyx, 5 distinct imbricated sepals, lanceolate, 

 long subulate acuminate points, glabrous, obscurely 

 3-nerved. slightly ciliate. 



Tube of the corolla very short, not inflated, 2-lipped 

 ringent, upper lip narrow, arched. 2-toothed, hispid 

 on the back, slightly keeled, a strong reddish ridge 

 along the back, arising from a horn-shaped process 

 at the notch of the apex ; lower lip 3-parted seg- 

 ments equal, long linear, striated with 2 or 3 pink 

 lines, three or four times as long as the tube, didyn- 

 amous fertile filaments declined at base, ascending 

 occupying the vaulted upper lip. anthers pubescent 

 below; abortive 5th stamen, naked, sub-equal, re- 

 curved closely to the lower lip ; style about as long 

 as the stamens, stigma simple, capsule 2-celled, seeds 

 numerous, wingless. 



Flowers creamy yellowish, streaked with red. 



Dr. K. also presented specimens of a Loniccra, 

 from the interior, accompanied by a drawing. 

 L. pilosa — Kellogg. 



Stem twining, perennial, very hirsute. 



Leaves pubescent above (dull green, not shining), 

 soft villous and glaucous beneath, lower large stem 

 leaves cordate-ovate obtuse, about two inches long 

 by one and a-half wide, upper leaves of the slender 

 branches, oblong, sub-acute, all on petioles g to i 

 the length of the lamina, only the uppermost pair 

 connate-perfoliate, lamina coriaceous margin ciliate, 

 somewhat revolute, petioles, in short, all parts very 

 pilose ; stipules reniform clasping, connecting the 

 bases of the opposite leaves. 



Flowers hirsute externally, tube slender not gib- 

 bous, lower linear division about one-third larger 

 than the tube, upper phlange with the four very 

 short teeth in whorls of 6, internodes of spike short, 

 color of the flowers pale pink blush ; calyx minute ; 

 exsert filaments, and capitate pistil, hirsute at the 

 base ; tube very hirsute within throughout ; whorls 

 with very minute, ovate, acute scales but no foliace- 

 ous bractlets. 



Fruit sub-glabrous. 



The specimens from which the description is taken 

 is fifteen feet in length. 



Dr. K. also presented a specimen and drawing of 

 Erythrea or Canchelagua, a beautiful plant belong- 

 ing to the Gentianworts. It has a pure and rather 

 pleasant bitter, is tonic and stomachic, and in the 

 fresh state an excellent remedy for agues ; its medi- 

 cal properties are said to be entirely lost by drying. 

 The general appearance of this plant is very much 

 like our Atlantic Sabbatia angu/aris. 



Dr. W. 0. Ayres presented a specimen of a new 

 Scomberoid fish, with the following description : 

 Caraax stmmetriccs — Ayres. 



Form elongated, compressed, (the thickness being 

 rather more than half the depth,) dorsal and abdom- 

 inal outlines evenly arched ; depth one-fifth the total 

 length ; length of head a little greater than the depth 

 of the body. 



Mouth oblique : lower jaw the longer ; a vertical 

 line from the tip of the superior maxillary, passing 

 just in advance of the eye. Teeth extremely minute 

 in both jaws, on the palatine bones, the anterior por- 

 tion of the vomer, and along the middle line of 

 the same bone and on the tongue ; those on the 

 tongue and anterior part of the vomer are crowded ; 

 the remainder are in each instance arranged in near- 

 ly a single row. 



Scales thin, elliptical, with very numerous concen- 

 tric stria? ; covering the entire body and heal, except 

 the throat, lower jaw, and space anterior to the eyes. 

 Those on the lower parts of the body are the largest ; 

 those on the head very small. The lateral line \ 

 es directly backward until about even with the ori- 1 

 gin of the second dorsal fin, curves there quite sud- 

 denly downward, and follows thence the middle line 

 of the body to the caudal fi . The scales marking! 

 the line are elongated vertically, with a median pro-' 

 lirected backward : near the head this process isi 

 very slight ; it becomes more developed, until poste-l 

 rior to the curved portion of the line it is a horny 

 ridge, with an acute tip, the whole constituting the 

 sharp, angular carina along the caudal region of thel 

 body found in the fishes of this genus ; the number of[ 

 these carina ted scales is forty-four to forty-six. 



