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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  CALIFORNIA 
  

  

  earth, 
  the 
  progress 
  of 
  glaciers 
  is 
  among 
  the 
  most 
  potent. 
  Every 
  year 
  brings 
  

   new 
  proofs 
  of 
  the 
  extent 
  and 
  importance 
  of 
  the 
  changes 
  effected 
  by 
  glacial 
  

   movement; 
  and 
  perhaps 
  investigation 
  may 
  show 
  that 
  there 
  was 
  a 
  time 
  in 
  

   which, 
  from 
  the 
  western 
  slopes 
  of 
  the 
  Sierra 
  Nevada 
  range 
  proceeded 
  icy 
  

   masses, 
  of 
  a 
  magnitude 
  and 
  weight 
  sufficient 
  to 
  have 
  crushed 
  out 
  and 
  destroyed 
  

   the 
  original 
  relationships 
  of 
  rock 
  over 
  which 
  they 
  traveled 
  ; 
  and 
  to 
  have 
  had 
  

   much 
  to 
  do 
  with, 
  if 
  they 
  were 
  not 
  the 
  principal 
  cause 
  of, 
  the 
  disrupted 
  and 
  

   almost 
  chaotic 
  state 
  of 
  the 
  earth's 
  surface 
  in 
  Placer 
  county. 
  

  

  Dr. 
  Kellogg 
  called 
  the 
  attention 
  of 
  the 
  Academy 
  to 
  the 
  follow- 
  

   ing 
  new 
  species 
  of 
  plants, 
  specimens 
  of 
  Avhich 
  he 
  exhibited. 
  

  

  Descriptions 
  of 
  new 
  Plants 
  from 
  the 
  Pacific 
  States. 
  

  

  BY 
  A. 
  KELLOGG, 
  M. 
  D. 
  

  

  Lupinus 
  palusiris, 
  Kellogg. 
  

  

  Stem 
  stout, 
  annual, 
  fistulous 
  (cotyledons 
  thick, 
  large, 
  connate 
  and 
  persistent), 
  

   striate 
  by 
  the 
  decurrent 
  nerves 
  from 
  the 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  leaves, 
  3 
  to 
  8 
  inches, 
  or 
  

   more, 
  in 
  height, 
  often 
  subsequently 
  branching 
  3 
  to 
  6 
  inches 
  more 
  beyond 
  the 
  

   main 
  axis 
  and 
  its 
  elongated 
  terminal 
  spike 
  ; 
  long, 
  soft, 
  silky, 
  pubescent, 
  or 
  sub- 
  

   glabrous, 
  with 
  barely 
  very 
  minute 
  villi 
  ; 
  peduncles 
  stout, 
  as 
  long, 
  or 
  often 
  longer 
  

   than 
  the 
  leaves 
  (3 
  to 
  5 
  inches), 
  rachis 
  somewhat 
  longer 
  still 
  ; 
  leaves 
  loosely 
  

   flustered 
  toward 
  the 
  top 
  ; 
  petioles 
  long, 
  rather 
  robust, 
  base 
  expanded 
  and 
  

   strongly 
  clasping 
  the 
  stem, 
  the 
  3 
  prominent 
  nerves 
  decurrent, 
  stipules 
  subulate, 
  

   hirsute, 
  i^ 
  to 
  }^ 
  an 
  inch 
  long, 
  leaflets 
  6 
  to 
  10, 
  obovate-oblong, 
  obtuse, 
  mucron- 
  

   ate, 
  retuse, 
  narrowed 
  at 
  the 
  base, 
  glabrous 
  above, 
  subpubescent 
  beneath, 
  i^ 
  to 
  

   ^ 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  petiole 
  ; 
  spike 
  6 
  to 
  12 
  inches 
  ; 
  flowers 
  large, 
  violet-blue, 
  

   pinkish, 
  or 
  verging 
  to 
  white, 
  pedicellate, 
  subverticellate 
  or 
  verticellate, 
  some- 
  

   what 
  scarious 
  bracts 
  persistent, 
  subulate, 
  the 
  setaceous 
  acuminatiou 
  extending 
  

   to 
  about 
  half 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  lower 
  lip, 
  subscarious 
  calyx 
  bracteolate 
  or 
  ebracteo- 
  

   late 
  hirsute, 
  about 
  half 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  somewhat 
  ciliated 
  keel, 
  slightly 
  sac- 
  

   cate 
  ; 
  upper 
  lip 
  2-toothed, 
  lower 
  herbaceous 
  lip 
  mostly 
  2-toothed, 
  seldom 
  sub-en- 
  

   tire 
  ; 
  wings 
  very 
  broad, 
  obtuse, 
  with 
  a 
  rhomboidal 
  outline 
  ; 
  petals 
  equal. 
  Legumes 
  

   very 
  appressed, 
  (silvery?) 
  hirsute, 
  compressed, 
  an 
  inch 
  or 
  more 
  in 
  length, 
  about 
  

   8-seeded. 
  

  

  Collected 
  by 
  Kellogg 
  and 
  Bloomer 
  on 
  the 
  San 
  Joaquin 
  River, 
  April 
  7th, 
  

   1869. 
  Differs 
  kom 
  Men 
  ziesii 
  — 
  a 
  2-seeded 
  species, 
  — 
  whereas 
  this 
  has 
  8 
  or 
  

   more; 
  also 
  one 
  var. 
  (deep 
  purple-blue 
  flower), 
  has 
  very 
  distinct 
  bracteoles. 
  No 
  

   variety 
  of 
  L. 
  polyphyllus 
  — 
  with 
  13 
  to 
  15 
  leaflets, 
  short, 
  caducous 
  bracts 
  and 
  

   ebracteolate 
  calyx 
  — 
  3 
  to 
  5-feet 
  stem, 
  etc., 
  and 
  if 
  we 
  mistake 
  not, 
  perennial 
  root, 
  

   will 
  allow 
  it 
  to 
  be 
  placed 
  under 
  that 
  name. 
  L. 
  latifolius 
  also 
  has 
  a 
  perennial 
  

   root, 
  smooth 
  stem, 
  bracts 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  flowers, 
  ebracteolate 
  calyx, 
  entire 
  

   lips 
  and 
  glabrous 
  keel, 
  etc. 
  

  

  Lupinus 
  Menziesii, 
  var. 
  atirea, 
  Kellogg. 
  

  

  Collected 
  by 
  Kellogg 
  and 
  Samuel 
  Brannan, 
  Jr., 
  in 
  Deer 
  Valley, 
  near 
  Anti- 
  

  

  