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r CASTILLEJA MARTINI. Stems several from a rather 

 stout woody root-stock, erect or spreading, about 3 dm. long, 

 villous and viscid throughout ; lower leaves linear or broadly 

 linear, entire, 2.5-3 cm. long, 3-5 mm. wide ; the uppermost some- 

 wdiat broader, divided to near the middle into 3-lobes, the two 

 lateral lobes narrow, spreading, shorter than the middle one ; 

 bracts similarly lobed, slightly dilated, scarlet tipped; racemes 

 narrow and becoming rather loose, 1-2 dm. long; calyx 1.5 em. 

 long, cleft nearly to the middle behind, scarcely as deep before, 

 its segments broadly lanceolate, toothed ; the teeth less than 2 

 mm. long, the anterior one much the shorter ; galea reddish along 

 the inner margins, i cm. long, equalling or slightly exceeding 

 the tube ; capsule acute i cm. long. 



This species is closely related to C. Brczvcri Fcniald., and 

 mav prove to be only a form of that little-known species. It is 

 what has been locallv known as as C. ininiata, Dougl, but it can 

 DC no near relative of that species. 



JVilsoii's Peak, Los Angeles Co. No. 1881. July 10, 1901. 



Pandora. (Kennerlia.) GraLi\dis, Dall. 



BY PROF. J. J. RI\'ERS. 



The above named shell is one of the latest discoveries in the 

 fossil state, of a shell species that, according to the chronologist 

 Dall, exists now in the living state in the cold waters of Alaska. 



The Neocene stratifications have numerous investigators, but 

 the ever-changing percentages caused by additional discoveries 

 leave the geologic truth not c[uite established. 



Actacon traskii, Stearns. 



This large and robust species recently discovered and named 

 by Dr. R. E. C. Stearns is found in numbers in the quaternary of 

 Santa Monica. 



