﻿ACADEMY 
  OF 
  SCIENCES. 
  Od 
  

  

  Heuchera 
  Californica, 
  Kellogg. 
  

  

  Scapoid-panicle 
  ascending 
  from 
  a 
  perennial 
  creeping 
  rhizom, 
  1 
  to 
  2 
  feet 
  high, 
  

   2 
  to 
  3-leave(3, 
  large 
  (5 
  to 
  7-lobeci) 
  below 
  ; 
  fimbriate-bracted 
  above 
  on 
  the 
  

   rachis, 
  floral 
  top 
  elongated, 
  narrow, 
  loose, 
  lateral 
  peduncles 
  bi-ortrichotomous 
  ; 
  

   cymules 
  very 
  short 
  ; 
  plant 
  hirsute, 
  with 
  long 
  spreading 
  glandular 
  hairs 
  through- 
  

   out 
  ; 
  radicle 
  petioles 
  and 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  nerved 
  and 
  sulcatescape, 
  rather 
  hispid 
  ; 
  

   hairs 
  somewhat 
  fulvous, 
  or 
  dirty 
  white. 
  Leaves 
  roundish-cordate 
  5 
  to 
  12 
  or 
  

   more 
  lobed, 
  lobes 
  short, 
  obtusish, 
  crenate-serrate, 
  teeth 
  abruptly 
  acute, 
  mucron- 
  

   ate, 
  margins 
  minutely 
  ciliate, 
  sparsely 
  appressed-hirsute 
  above 
  (with 
  white 
  

   hairs) 
  ; 
  hirsute 
  beneath, 
  chiefly 
  along 
  the 
  veins 
  ; 
  the 
  radicle 
  leaves 
  on 
  long 
  pe- 
  

   tioles 
  (3 
  to 
  6 
  inches), 
  base 
  short 
  expanded, 
  strongly 
  nerved, 
  and 
  scarcely 
  at 
  all 
  

   membranous 
  (lamina 
  about 
  2 
  to 
  3 
  inches 
  broad) 
  ; 
  bracts 
  fimbriate, 
  very 
  atten- 
  

   uate 
  filiform 
  lobed 
  (colored 
  reddish) 
  ; 
  rachis, 
  peduncles, 
  pedicels, 
  calyx 
  and 
  cap- 
  

   sules, 
  stipitate 
  glandular; 
  calyx 
  colored 
  (white), 
  large, 
  spreading, 
  bell-form, 
  

   nodding, 
  segments 
  ovate, 
  sub-acute, 
  somewhat 
  unequal, 
  ciliate 
  with 
  stipitate- 
  

   glands 
  ; 
  petals 
  (white) 
  filiform 
  attenuate-acuminate 
  (about 
  equal, 
  finer 
  than 
  

   filaments,) 
  persistent 
  ; 
  filaments 
  (8 
  to 
  10) 
  unequal, 
  anthers 
  roundish 
  ; 
  styles 
  

   long, 
  and 
  with 
  the 
  stamens 
  exserted 
  ; 
  capules 
  ovate-acumnate 
  densely 
  stipi- 
  

   tate-glandular. 
  

  

  Found 
  by 
  Kellogg 
  and 
  Brannan, 
  on 
  the 
  San 
  Gregorio 
  Creek, 
  San 
  Mateo 
  

   Co., 
  Cal., 
  May 
  2d, 
  1870. 
  

  

  This 
  species 
  is 
  not 
  liable 
  to 
  be 
  confounded 
  with 
  other 
  allied 
  forms 
  ; 
  at 
  least, 
  

   with 
  any 
  of 
  the 
  naked 
  scape 
  species, 
  as 
  this 
  plant 
  has 
  3 
  large 
  well-developed 
  

   leaves 
  of 
  the 
  scape 
  on 
  petioles, 
  from 
  3^ 
  to 
  about 
  an 
  inch 
  in 
  length 
  ; 
  besides, 
  

   H. 
  cylindrica, 
  hirtiflora, 
  or 
  var. 
  pilossima, 
  H. 
  hracteola, 
  or 
  H. 
  rubescens, 
  etc., 
  

   have 
  stamens 
  and 
  styles 
  too 
  short 
  or 
  included, 
  or 
  if 
  not 
  altogether 
  naked, 
  the 
  

   rudimentary 
  leaves 
  are 
  mere 
  lacinese 
  or 
  abnormal 
  leaves. 
  It 
  would 
  be 
  useless 
  

   to 
  draw 
  parallels 
  in 
  details, 
  where 
  the 
  special 
  differences 
  seem 
  so 
  numerous. 
  

  

  LagophijUa 
  minima, 
  Kellogg. 
  

  

  Stem 
  annual, 
  erect, 
  simple, 
  or 
  sub-simple, 
  densely 
  hirsute 
  with 
  long 
  spreading 
  

   articulated 
  hairs 
  throughout, 
  low 
  and 
  slender 
  (4 
  to 
  6 
  inches) 
  ; 
  early 
  radicle 
  and 
  

   lower 
  cauline 
  leaves 
  spatulate-lanceolate, 
  acute, 
  decurrent 
  into 
  narrowly 
  winged 
  

   petioles, 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  blade, 
  base 
  clasping, 
  very 
  minutely 
  and 
  remotely 
  

   cut-dentate, 
  obscurely 
  3-nerved 
  and 
  tripli-uerved 
  above, 
  silvery 
  shining, 
  some- 
  

   what 
  appressed 
  satiny-hirsute, 
  lower 
  leaves 
  opposite 
  ; 
  upper 
  alternate 
  sub-sessile 
  

   and 
  sessile, 
  linear-acute, 
  apex 
  callous, 
  surface 
  pappilose 
  {cutis-anserina) 
  rough- 
  

   ened. 
  

  

  Heads 
  terminal 
  (rarely 
  a 
  few 
  axillary 
  at 
  the 
  summit) 
  short 
  peduncled 
  (or 
  sub- 
  

   sessile). 
  Involucral 
  leaves 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  series 
  similar 
  to, 
  but 
  reduced 
  form 
  of 
  

   upper 
  cauline, 
  or 
  pseudo-bractoid 
  5, 
  spatulate-cuneate, 
  flat, 
  loosely 
  erect, 
  spread- 
  

   ing, 
  densely 
  hirsute, 
  chiefly 
  so 
  along 
  the 
  margins 
  (hairs 
  long 
  and 
  beautifully 
  

   jointed), 
  few 
  large 
  glands 
  along 
  the 
  lamina 
  above 
  ; 
  second 
  series 
  also 
  of 
  5, 
  ovate- 
  

   lanceolate, 
  infolding 
  entirely 
  the 
  ray 
  achenia 
  ; 
  rays 
  pale 
  yellowish, 
  3-toothed, 
  

   3-nerved 
  (indigo-purple) 
  broadly 
  fan-shaped 
  ; 
  cuneate 
  base 
  somewhat 
  abruptly 
  

  

  