TRANS. OP THE ACAD. OP SCIENCE. 
trimerism occur in the same genus—whether in the same spe¬ 
cies, is unknown to me. 
In all the forms of this little plant the leaves are 2-12 lines 
long and ^ 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 bracts, half as long as the sepals or 
smaller; flowers 1—1# lines long; sepals green with red, outer 
ones sharp pointed, inner ones rather broader; seeds 0.23- 
0.28 line long, their length being equal to 1^ or If diameters; 
4 or 5 faint ribs visible and between them a well marked 
cross-lineolation. The central peduncle is really terminal 
and bears the earliest flowers, 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 specimens the 
leaves of the main stem and, consequently, the peduncles are 
alternating, or in f order. 
Yar. a is the largest one with a remarkably long style, about 
8 times as long as the ovary, and much exceeding the sepals 
and the very long anthers; its seeds, however, are among 
the smallest of the species;—var. p is intermediate in size be¬ 
tween both others; when the heads bear 2 flowers, these are 
arranged exactly like those of J. pelocarpus , with 2 lower 
bracts, bearing the flowers in their axils, and a third sterile 
one at the inner base of the upper flower; sometimes this 
upper flower is dimerous;—war, y is the smallest one only 
jL-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 of the capsule are 
opposed to them. 
26. c. J. Kelloggii , n. sp.: caule annuo folioso brevissimo 
ramosissimo; foliis e basi vaginali latiore filiformibus supra 
canaliculatis; ramulis abbreviatis infra foliosis capitula lax a 
pauci- (3-5)flora terminalia et subinde ex axillis inferiori- 
bus pedunculos longiores bifloros gerentibus; sepalis lanceo- 
lato-subulatis sequalibus medio herbaceis stamina 3 tertia 
parte superantibus capsulam ovatam obtusam mucronatam 
tenui-membranaceam 3-locularem fere sequantibus; antheris 
oblongo-linearibus filamento brevioribus; seminibus ovatis 
vix apiculatis pauci-costatis lineolatis. 
Sandy soil in San Francisco, in flower and fruit in April, 
Dr. Albert Kellogg, for whom as the pioneer of modern Cali¬ 
fornian botany, which he investigated and elucidated, at first 
unaided and struggling with numerous impediments, this 
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