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base of the anthers — tliey are certainly directly in front of 

 and often adnate to tliem for some distance. 



Godetia micropetala Greene. — Original specimens of this 

 show that the calyx-tips are free in the bud, the seeds in 

 one row in each cell. The anthor states that it is 2-costate 

 on the alternate angles, and that "in aspect it is so nulike 

 G. purpurea as to preclude the supposition of its being a de- 

 formed state of that species." As G. purpurea belongs to 

 the subdivision " tips of the calyx not at all free in the 

 bud: sides of the capsule not 2-costate: seeds in 2 rows in 

 each cell", this is probably true, but perhaps a brief exam- 

 ination will show it to be a little nearer G. quadrivulnera. 



Helianthella Californica Gray. — Numerous sj^ecimens 

 from Howell Mountain, in Napa County, show, in many of 

 the heads, a well-developed pappus identical with that of 

 the somewhat more scabrous form of the high Sierras, de- 

 scribed in Bull. Cal. Acad. i. 89, as H. Nevadensis Greene. 

 The description and notes there given furnish a striking ex- 

 ample of the difficulties under which the mere closet bot- 

 anist labors; one accustomed to field studies and able to 

 speak from the vantage-ground of familiar knowledge of the 

 plant as it grows on our western hills and mountains, would 

 hardly have been led into describing the form found in the 

 Coast Eange as "monocephalous" with leaves all opposite, 

 and he would have probably known that the stems of the 

 Sierra form, described as "simple, bearing at summit about 

 three short-peduncled heads," were, in reality, frequently 

 more branched than the other form, and often bore seven 

 or eight heads; that on stems springing from the same crown 

 the leaves were sometimes all alternate, sometimes all oppo- 

 site, sometimes a mixture of the two; and that the akenes of 

 both, but especially of the coast form, were quite variable 

 in shape. 



