BOTANY. 7 
Suffruticose, pretty regularly branching, softly pubescent throughout, 14-2 feet high; 
branchlets leafy and umbellose, subflexuous, with internodes scarcely as long as the leaves. 
Leaves imparipinnate; leaflets 3-5, rhombic-ovate, acute, mucronulate, mostly alternate. 
Stipules minute, fusiform, tomentose ; umbel stipitate, shorter than the leaf, 2-4-6-flowered, 
with an oval bract in it. Flowers small, subsessile, yellow with purplish tips. Calyx 
tubulate-campanulate. Legumen 1-2-seeded, pubescent, pendulous, incurved, with a subulate 
uncinate and somewhat refracted rostrum. Differs from H. decumbens by being more branched 
and pubescent, by mucronate leaves, stipules not spinose, peduncles of the umbels considerably 
shorter, smaller flowers with purpurescent tips and by legumes not carinate and mostly one- 
seeded. Tejon Pass; September. 
HosackrA PURSHIANA, Benth., Torr. and Gray's Flora, vol. i, p. 327. Lotus sericeus, Pursh. 
Trigonella Americana, Nutt. A very variable species in its pubescence and in the size of its 
leaves. Our plant is one of its smallest forms. Posé creek ; August. 
Lupinus GRACILIS, Agardh., in Torr. and Gray’s Flora, vol. 1, p. 372. Lupinus microphylla, 
Nutt. Abundant in the vicinity of Benicia; July. 
LUPINUS PERENNIS? Linn. Too young to determine with certainty. Same locality as above. 
ROSACEA, 
Rosa FRAXINIFOLIA, Bork., Torr. and Gray’s Folia, vol. 1, p. 460. Fort Miller; July. 
LYTHRACEE, 
LYTHRUM ALATUM, var. linearifolium, Gray’s Pl. Lindh., part 2, p. 188. Abundant in the 
bottoms of the Tajon Pass ; September. 
ONAGRACEE, 
ZAUSCHNERIA CALIFORNICA, Presl. in Torr. and Gray’s Flora, vol. 1, p. 486. Pos6 creek; 
August. 
EPILOBIUM COLORATUM, Muhl. in Torr. and Gray’s Flora, vol. 1, p. 489. E. tetragonum, 
Pursh. Pose creek ; August. 
CENOTHERA RHOMBIPETALA? Nutt. in Torr. and Gray’s Flora, vol. 1, p. 493. Our specimens 
have no leaves, but only foliaceous bracts, at the tip of the branches, a little longer than the cap- 
sules ; flowers yellow, very large, with rhomboid-ovate petals a little shorter than the style. 
Tube of the calyx long and slender. A tall and robust plant, very branching, 5-6-feet high, 
abundant on the bars of streams. Fort Miller; July. 
GoDETIA (CENOTHERA) WILLIAMSONI, nova species. Erecta 1-2 pedalis gracilis sublignosa, epi- 
dermide nitido-flavescente; foliis circa pollicaribus albidis lineari-lanceolatis vix runcinatis 
obtusis basi attenuatis, alternantibus fasciculatisque. Flores in spicis brevibus (et lateralibus) 
flexuosis 1-14 pollicares; parte germinali minute hirsuta ovato-lanceolata costata, infundibuli 
fundo-ciliata, limbi laciniis reliquum calycem vix semipollicarem subaequantibus, petalis 
obovatis pollicaribus minutissime denticulatis flavis, magna apice macula violacea obovata et 
secus marginem semilunariter decurrente; staminibus alternatim inequalibus, longioribus 
petalafere equantibus; stigmate lobis recurvatis ciliatis rubicundis mediam maculam superante. 
Capsula prismatica albida glabra j^; pollicaris, breviter rostrata utrinque obtusa, costis octo 
quasi alata, seminibus fuscis prismaticis truncatis apice margine scarioso coronatis. 
Slender, 1-2 feet high, with a glossy light-yellowish bark ; leaves narrow, somewhat fleshy, 
