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The variety found by Dr. Bigelow was not in flower. It seems to be a tall plant. The leaves 
are 3—4 inches long and nearly an inch broad. 
MonaRDELLA canpicans, Benth. Pl. Hartw. p. 330, (No. 1911); Durand, l. c. Sides of riva> 
lets, Knight’s Ferry, Stanislaus, May 7. The lobes of the corolla in this and some other 
species have a small hemispherical sac at the tip. The stamens are strongly didynamous. 
This species is found as far south as San Diego, and north to the Upper Sacramento. 
M. canpicans, 8. veNosA: foliis angustioribus; bracteis mucronatis capitulis longioribus, inter 
venas validas hyalino-membranaceis. Plains of Feather River, near Marysville, May 25. Also 
collected in California by Rev. A. Fitch. The bracts of this plant are very remarkable. They 
are larger than in the ordinary form of M. candicans, and between the strong veins (which are 
usually of a purplish color) there is no parenchyma, but only the thin trarisparent epidermis 
resembling goldbeater’s skin. The corolla s much exserted, of a deep rose color, and has the 
lobes tipped with a little sac, as in the common variety. 
Poesoeyne Dovenasit, Benth. Lab. p. 414, & in DC. Prodr. 12, p. 243. Plains and low places, 
Stockton, May 7; valley of the Sacramento, May 26. All the species of this genus are annual. 
HEDEOMA? SERPYLLOIDES (sp. nov.): annua, e basi ramosa prostrata; foliis obovatis obtusis 
integris, basi in petiolem attenuatis ; verticillastris 2-6-floris sessilibus basi. bibracteolatis, brac- 
teolis oblanceolatis flore longioribus; calyce vix bilabiato, profunde quinquefido, segmentis 
angusto-lanceolatis patulis ; corolla calyce paulo breviore, labio superiore plano ovato obtuso 
labio inferiore trifido, laciniis subaqualibus, intermedio subemarginato. Hill-sides, Martinez, 
California, April 23. A slender annual, with divaricate puberulent branches. Leaves 5-6 
lines long (including the petiole), ciliolate at the base, otherwise nearly glabrous. Early 
flowers solitary, the later ones in 2—6-flowered cymules. Tube of the calyx very short; the 3 
superior segments (upper lip) broader and longer than the others, all of them cuspidate. 
Stamens 2, the upper pair wanting. 
Satya carpuacea, Benth. Lab. p. 302, & in DC. Prod. 12, p. 349. 8S. gossypina, Benth. Pl. 
Hartw. p. 330. Plains, Knight’s Ferry, Stanislaus, May 7. We have no doubt.of S. gossypina 
being a mere variety (as Mr. Bentham suspected) of 8. carduacea. 
SALVIA COLUMBARIZ, Benth. 1. c. Sides of rivulets, Knight’s Ferry, California, May. This is 
an annual species, and varies greatly in size, as well as in the lobing of the leaves. 
AUpDIBERTIA HUMILIS, Benth. Lab. p. 313, & in DC. Prodr. 12, p. 359. Hill-sides, near 
Nevada City, May 20. Leaves most clustered towards the base of the stem ; the proper cauline 
ones being seldom more than a single pair. 
ScureLnaria TUBEROSA, Benth. 1.c, Plains, near San Gabriel, March 23. Dr. Parry collected 
this species near Monterey. It was found also by Mr. Gibbes in Calaveras county; by Dr. Still- 
man on the Upper Sacramento; by Mr. Thurber and Rev. Mr. Fitch in the lower part of the 
Sacramento valley. It is variable in its pubescence, being sometimes almost glabrous. The 
calyx, however, is always villous. The leaves frequently oblong and narrowed at the base. 
Besides the principal tuber, from which the stem arries, there are often others at the extremity 
of the fibrous roots, or rather subterranean branches. They are about three-fourths of an inch 
in length, oblong, pubescent, tapering to the extremity, jointed, and of a fleshy consistence. 
Sometimes they show a tendency to ramify. They appear to be true tubers, like those of the 
otato. 
r ANTIRRHINOIDES, Benth. in Bot. Reg. fol. 1493, & in DC. Prodr. 12 p. 428. Var. 
foliis dentatis, interdum sessilibus. River banks, Mokelumne Hill, May 17. We have the 
same variety, collected in California by Frémont (1846) and by Rev. A. Fitch. The leaves are 
larger than in the Oregon plant, and the upper ones are sometimes closely sessile. 
MarrvusiuM VULGARE, Linn.; Benth. in DC. Prodr. 12, p. 453, River banks, Mokelumne 
Hill, California, May 17. Introduced from Europe. 
Sracuys aJucorpEs, Benth. in Linnea 6, p. 80, & in DC. Prodr. 12, p. 468. Bolinas bay, 
