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  PROCEEDINGS 
  OF 
  THE 
  CALIFORNIA 
  

  

  narrowed 
  into 
  a 
  short 
  pubescent 
  tube 
  ; 
  third 
  series 
  also 
  5, 
  (the 
  proper 
  chaff) 
  

   linear-lanceolate, 
  acuminate, 
  the 
  cuneate 
  base 
  colored, 
  somewhat 
  scarious 
  mar- 
  

   gins 
  ciliate 
  villous 
  on 
  the 
  back 
  at 
  the 
  tips, 
  slightly 
  carinate, 
  distinct, 
  central 
  

   florets 
  about 
  5, 
  staminate, 
  and 
  pistillate, 
  abortive, 
  5-toothed, 
  stamens 
  purple, 
  tip 
  

   of 
  filaments 
  purpled 
  below 
  as 
  if 
  articuluted. 
  Receptacle 
  conic 
  (?), 
  fimbrillate 
  

   (?), 
  punctate, 
  apex 
  or 
  centre 
  hirsute 
  (with 
  a 
  pencillate 
  cluster 
  of 
  hairs). 
  Pap- 
  

   pus 
  none. 
  

  

  A 
  small 
  slender 
  annual 
  of 
  micropoid 
  similitude, 
  with 
  opposite 
  dentate 
  lower 
  

   leaves, 
  and 
  remarkable 
  jointed 
  or 
  articulated 
  hairs, 
  with 
  the 
  general 
  aspect 
  of 
  

   a 
  Filago, 
  Calymandra 
  or 
  dwarfed 
  forms 
  of 
  Gnaphalium. 
  Found 
  by 
  Mr. 
  S. 
  

   Brannan, 
  Jr., 
  at 
  Oakville, 
  Napa 
  Co., 
  Cal., 
  May 
  2d, 
  1870. 
  

  

  This 
  little 
  plant 
  will 
  now 
  enable 
  us 
  to 
  arrange 
  and 
  separate 
  true 
  generic 
  

   characteristics 
  from 
  the 
  adventitious, 
  reverting 
  the 
  partial 
  and 
  subordinate 
  only 
  

   to 
  specific 
  importance, 
  e. 
  g., 
  " 
  perennial 
  " 
  (?), 
  " 
  glabrous," 
  " 
  sessile-heads," 
  

   " 
  involute 
  margins," 
  etc., 
  will 
  only 
  apply 
  to 
  L. 
  ramossima 
  of 
  Oregon, 
  but 
  not 
  

   to 
  our 
  plant 
  — 
  description 
  provisionally 
  well 
  enough 
  when 
  one- 
  species 
  of 
  a 
  new 
  

   genus 
  is 
  known. 
  The 
  fact 
  of 
  an 
  extra 
  pseudo-series 
  of 
  involucral 
  envelopes 
  

   would 
  do 
  little 
  violence 
  to 
  nature 
  should 
  others 
  view 
  them 
  as 
  merely 
  bractoid. 
  

  

  Trifoliumpaucifioruvi 
  (?) 
  \Si\\ 
  parvum, 
  Kellogg. 
  

  

  The 
  following 
  species 
  or 
  form 
  does 
  not 
  well 
  agree 
  with 
  the 
  description 
  ; 
  e. 
  g.: 
  

   The 
  plant 
  is 
  by 
  no 
  means 
  " 
  glabrous," 
  but 
  hairy 
  throughout, 
  or 
  nearly 
  so 
  ; 
  nor 
  

   are 
  the 
  upper 
  leaves 
  " 
  lanceolate-linear 
  acuminate," 
  nor 
  " 
  distantly 
  and 
  minutely 
  

   spinulose-serrulate," 
  nor 
  involucre 
  " 
  many-cleft," 
  but 
  only 
  5 
  to 
  6 
  — 
  much 
  less 
  

   " 
  12-16," 
  etc. 
  Therefore 
  we 
  give 
  the 
  following 
  description, 
  as 
  notes 
  to 
  further 
  

   comparison 
  ; 
  to 
  wit 
  : 
  

  

  Root 
  perennial. 
  

  

  Stem 
  very 
  slender, 
  ascending 
  or 
  somewhat 
  erect, 
  much 
  branching 
  or 
  spreading 
  

   from 
  the 
  base, 
  sparsely 
  soft 
  silky 
  hairy 
  nearly 
  throughout, 
  4 
  to 
  6 
  inches 
  high. 
  

  

  Leaves 
  very 
  long 
  petioled 
  (6 
  to 
  7 
  times 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  leaflets), 
  2-3 
  inches 
  ; 
  

   .leaflets 
  obovate 
  obtuse, 
  or 
  upper 
  short 
  acute, 
  base 
  cuneate, 
  spinulose-serrate, 
  

   often 
  toothed 
  at 
  the 
  apex, 
  strongly 
  pinnate 
  veined, 
  glabrous 
  except 
  the 
  pubes- 
  

   cent 
  midrib 
  beneath, 
  short-petiolulate 
  (1-line) 
  ; 
  blade 
  3 
  lines 
  to 
  half 
  an 
  inch 
  

   long, 
  2 
  to 
  3 
  lines 
  broad 
  ; 
  petioles 
  very 
  slender, 
  about 
  as 
  long 
  as 
  the 
  peduncles, 
  

   peduncles 
  axillary, 
  filiform, 
  hairy 
  ; 
  stipules 
  lanceolate 
  acuminate, 
  from 
  a 
  rather 
  

   broad 
  base, 
  lacineate-dentate 
  or 
  entire 
  ; 
  involucre 
  monophyllous, 
  5 
  to 
  6-cleft, 
  

   lance 
  pointed, 
  spinulose-mucronate, 
  9-nerved 
  at 
  the 
  membranaceous 
  base 
  of 
  the 
  

   cup, 
  1-2 
  florets, 
  rarely 
  more 
  ; 
  ca'ijx 
  on 
  a 
  short, 
  hirsute 
  pedicel 
  (about 
  1 
  line), 
  

   tube 
  sparsely 
  hirsute, 
  membranous 
  at 
  base, 
  pubescent, 
  10-nerved, 
  (marginal 
  

   nerves 
  meeting 
  at 
  the 
  axils 
  of 
  the 
  teeth 
  and 
  confluent 
  into 
  the 
  more 
  obscure 
  

   alternate 
  nerve,) 
  teeth 
  lanceolate-subulate-poiuted, 
  upper 
  pair 
  shorter, 
  or 
  sub- 
  

   equal 
  ; 
  corolla 
  tube 
  rather 
  more 
  than 
  twice 
  the 
  length 
  of 
  the 
  calyx, 
  pubescent 
  

   with 
  long 
  silky 
  hairs 
  ; 
  banner 
  large 
  straight 
  ovate 
  limb 
  longer 
  than 
  the 
  narrow 
  

   oblong 
  wings, 
  and 
  both 
  ochroleucus 
  or 
  whitish 
  ; 
  keel 
  very 
  short 
  abruptly 
  acute 
  

   point, 
  subincurved, 
  deep 
  purple 
  or 
  varying 
  to 
  indigo 
  blue. 
  P/s^^/ 
  clavate, 
  point 
  

   incurved 
  above, 
  beak 
  retrorse. 
  

  

  