1883. | Botany. 875 
years met in a more naturally botanical place than Minneapolis 
will prove to be, and there should be as a consequence an unusu- 
ally large attendance of botanists and plant collectors. 
EQUISETUM ARVENSE L., VAR. SEROTINUM MEyYER.—This “ acci- 
dental state,” as Gray calls it, has been found in considerable 
numbers this spring in Central Iowa. The specimens grew inter- 
mingled with the ordinary form, and there was nothing, so far as 
could be observed, in the conditions surrounding them which 
could account for their abnormal development. An attempt will 
be made to germinate the spores, should they prove to be per- 
fect—C. E. Bessey. 
NEW PLANTS FROM CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA, ETC. I.—TZhely- 
podium neglectum, n. sp.: Annual, 2°-5° high, glabrous through- 
out; stems stout, erect, striate, branching at the top; leaves ob- 
lanceolate, three inches long, all petioled; root leaves irregularly 
entate ; stem leaves long petioled, usually truncate at base, none 
but the uppermost entire; dense racemes panicled; pedicels as- 
l 
sp.: Annual, 1°-2° high, stem 
simple or branched above, pubescent below, with scattered re- 
long, narrow; petals linear, light yellow, 214” long; stamens 
only equaling the sepals; pod terete, 1’ long, appressed, those 
near the root retrorsely pubescent, all bayonet-shaped, very acute ; 
Style 1” long. 
te, scarious; uppermost sti- 
pules nearly orbicular, subtending some of the peduncles, 
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