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trimerism occur - “eo same genus—whether in the same spe- 
“= is unkn 
all the i. of t this little plant the leaves are 2-12 lines 
— and 4 line wide, filiform, but fleshy, on their lower part 
strongly carinate below and grooved above, flattened towards 
the tip; axillary stems, or properly peduncles, with one or 
two leaves at their base, naked upwards and much longer 
than the leaves, bearing at the apex 1-5 or 6 flowers in the 
axils of membranaeeous bra alf as long as the sepals or 
maller ; flo 1-13 1 long; sepals green with red, outer 
ones sharp pointed, inner ather broader; seeds 0.23- 
cross-lineolation. The central peduncle is really terminal 
and bears the earliest pases the lowest axillary one is the 
next in the progress of development, and then follow the 
others in ascending order, so that the one next to the termi- 
nal one bears the latest flowers; in the smaller ome uie the 
leaves of the nasi. stem and, consequently, the peduncles are 
alternating, or in } order, 
ar, a is the largest one with a remarkably long ye about 
3 me as _— as the ovary, and much exceeding the sepals 
and t long anthers; its seeds, however,.are among 
upper flower is dimerous ;—var. y is the smallest one only 
1-1 inch high; its single flowers have 2 bracts at their base, 
just as those of any other single flowered Juncus, and alter- 
nating with the exterior sepals, the stamens, carpels and stig- 
mas; the inner sepals and the valves ae. the capsule are 
opposed to them 
26. c. ello oggii, n. sp.: caule annuo folioso brevissimo 
ramosissimo; foliis e basi i. seg latiore filiformibus ape 
i i bb 
uci- (3-5 )flora terminalia et and ex axillis inferiori- 
us pedunculos longiores bifloros gerentibus ; iat Tanceo- 
lato-subulatis «qualibus medio herbaceis stamina 3 tert 
parte superantibus capsula vatam obtusam mucro aaa 
tenui-membranaceam Bars se fere «quantibus; antheris 
oblongo-linearibus filamento brevioribus; seminibus ovatis 
vix apiculatis pc-oosttis fee latis. 
niger soil i n San Francisco, in flower and fruit in April, 
Dr. A Malleags to or akan as the pioneer of modern Cali- 
forn ae ge which he investigated and elucidated, at first 
unaided and senegt ng with numerous impediments, this 
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