Valerianece.] 



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ATENIA. Nov. Gen. 



Calycis margo 5-dentatus persistens. Petala obcordata cum lacinula inflexa. Fructus subglobosus latert 

 compressus didyraus laevissimus. Mericarpia dorso jugis 5 filiformibus subprominulis sequalibus sequidis- 

 tantibus, lateralibus ante marginem positis. Valliculce evittatse ! Commissura angusta evittata. Carpo- 

 podium integrum tenue. Semen tereti-convexum antice planiusculum. — Herbae glabrce bipedales. Caulis 

 teres superne ramosus, oligophyllus. Folia pinnata, pinnis 2-3, angustissime linearibus basi apict 

 attenuatis, vaginis elongatis, angustis. Umbella composita, sub 10-radiata. Involucrum nullum aut 

 monophyllum parvurn subulatum. Involucella polyphylla, foliolis parvis subulatis. Flores albi. 



1. A. Gairdneri. 



Besides our Californian specimens, we have the same, gathered by the late Dr Gairdner, in dry grounds 

 by the Columbia River. 



Ord. XXVII. CAPRIFOLIACE^l. Juss. 



1. Lonicera ciliosa. Poir Hook, et Am. supra, p. 143. 



2. L. Ledebourii. Koch. — Hook, et Am. supra, p. 143. 



3. L. (?) subspicata ; fruticosa ramulis folisque junioribus pubescentibus, foliis oppositis 

 breviter petiolatis coriaceis ellipticis integerrimis nitidis subtus pallidioribus, floribus laxe 

 spicatis bracteatis solitaiiis v. binis oppositis, ovario globoso limbo calycino 5-lobo, corollo 

 bilabiata pubescenti labio superiore 3-inf.-trifido. 



Of this remarkable plant, our collection possesses but a solitary specimen, with several spikes, but with 

 few perfect flowers. The branches are woody. Leaves about an inch long, their margins much recurved in 

 a dry state ; upper branches terminating in flowering spikes, the leaves passing into opposite remote pairs of 

 bracteas, and having in their axils lesser bracteas, which bear the flowers solitary or in pairs. These are 

 small, not half an inch long. Ovary globose, crowned with 5 moderately large blunt lobes or teeth. Corolla 

 downy, oblong, bifid or two-lipped, the lips rather unequal, one with 3, the other with 2 oblong lobes. 

 Stamens 5. Anthers large, rather shorter than the corolla. Anthers large, linear-oblong. Style reaching 

 to the top of the stamens, curved. Stigma globose. — The aspect is quite different from any Lonicera with 

 which we are acquainted. 



Ord. XXVIII. RUBIACEiE. Juss. 



1. Galium boreale. L G. septentrionale. Eoe/n. et Sch. 



Hab. Snake Country. Mr Tolmie. 



2. G. Californicum ; annuum? gracile diffusum ramosum ubique hirsuto-piiosum, 

 caulibus 4-gonis, foliis quaternis patentibus ovatis acutissimis, pedunculis subterminalibus 

 solitariis ternisve 1-3-floris folia superantibus, ovario subgloboso loevi glabro, corolla) 

 (albae) laciniis acutissimis. 



Imperfect specimens of this, collected also in California, by Mr Menzies, have been long known to us. 

 Mr Douglas' possess flowers, but we are still unacquainted with the fruit. The root, also, we have not 

 seen. When held between the eye and the light, the leaves present a distinct reticulated appearance. 



Ord. XXIX. VALEUIANEiE. Juss. 

 1. Plectritis congesta. De Cand. Prod. 4. p. 631.- (S. Hook. Fl. Bor. Am. \.p. 291. 



