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BOTANY. 
Viola lobata, Benth. PI. Hartio. p. 298. Moist and shady places, Napa valley, April 2*7 ; 
Grass valley, May 21. Rhizoma short, throwing down a tuft of long thick fibres. Stem some¬ 
times a foot high, naked below. Leaves variable in the lohing. Flowers large, the petals yel¬ 
low, often tinged with purple, especially on the outside ; the lateral ones bearded near the base. 
Viola chrysantiia, Hook. Ic. 1, t. 49 ; Torr. & Gray, FI. 1, p. 143. Hill sides and plains, 
Knight’s ferry, Stanislaus, and Murphy’s, California ; May 8-14. 
Viola pedunculata, Torr. <F Gray , FI. 1 , p. 141. Sandy plains, Cocomungo, March 17 ; Be¬ 
nicia, April 24 ; Duffield’s Ranch, Sierra Nevada, May 10. A pubescent form was collected near 
Santa Rosa creek, May 1. This species, V. prmmorsa, Dougl. , V. linguasfolia, Nutt., and V. 
Nuttalli, Ph., are nearly allied, and should, perhaps, he united. 
Viola sarmentosa, Dougl. in Hook. FI. Bor.-Am. 1, p. 80; Torr. & Gray , l. c. Mountains 
near Oakland, April 4 ; Red woods, April 12. 
Viola ocellata, Torr. & Gray , FI. 1, p. 142. Deep ravines, Napa valley. Mr. Thurber 
found this species near the quicksilver mines of New Almaden. 
Viola adunca, Smith in Bees Cyclop. V. longipes, Nutt, in Torr. & Gray , FI. 1, p. 140. Santa 
Rosa creek ; May 1. The specimens are tall and slender, with the peduncles much elongated; 
hut a short cespitose form of the plant (which is the same as Hartweg’s No. 1660,) with the 
peduncles scarcely longer than the leaves, was collected at Duffield’s Ranch, Sierra Nevada. 
There can be scarcely a doubt that the little known V. adunca of Smith is identical with Nuttall’s 
V. longipes. The description of Smith agrees with our plant, but we have seen no authentic 
specimen for comparison. 
Viola cucullata, Ait. ; Torr. & Gray, FI. 1, p. 139. Pecan creek, Arkansas, and on the 
Pecos. August-October; Cocomungo, California ; March 18. The style is more slender and the 
stigma less rostrate in the Californian than in the eastern plant ; hut in other respects we find 
no difference. 
Viola Canadensis, Linn. In the Sandia mountains, New Mexico ; October. In flower and 
fruit. 
HYPERICACEflE. 
Hypericum anagalloides, Cham. & Schlecht. in Linncea 3, p. 127 ; Torr. & Gray. FI. 1 , p, 
160. Wet places, Laguna Santa Rosa, May 1, and Punta de los Reyes, April 18. Leaves 
varying from oblong to broadly ovate, sparsely pellucid-punctate. Not very distinct from H. 
mutilum*. 
* A remarkable shrub, bearing ripe pods only, was found by Dr. Bigelow in western New Mexico, on the hills bordering 
Williams’ river, from near its source to its confluence with the Great Colorado. The Mexicans call it Canotia. It usually grows 
horn 9 to 10 feet high, but was sometimes found attaining the height of nearly 20 feet. The branches are very numerous, 
alternate, rigid, terete, of a greenish color, and terminate in very long thorns. The epidermis is smooth and finely striate. 
Between the elevated striae there are 2 or 3 row's of impressed perforations. There were no leaves on the plant when Dr 
Bigelow saw ,t, and he thinks that it never bears any ; but there are distant alternate brown scars, where minute leaves or 
scales appear to have been. The pedicles are somewhat racemose towards the summit of the branches. They are about half an 
inch long, somewhat spreading, then curved upward, and are articulated below the middle. Calyx persistent, 5-cleft, small, 
free from the ovary. The corolla, if any, is deciduous. Stamens 5, hypogynous ; filaments slender and distinct. The fruit is 
nearly an inch long, oblong, acute at each end, and pointed with a short persistent subulate style, covered with a thin red flesh; 
the endocarp ligneous ; 5-celled, septicidally dehiscent about two-thirds of the way down, and loculicidally at the summit, which 
thus presents 10 subulate points in pairs. Seed solitary in each cell, suspended from near the summit at the inner angle, oblong, 
compressed with a broad somewhat falcate wing at the inferior extremity. Testa coreaceo-chartaceous, dull, minutely granu" 
]ated. Albumen very thin. Embryo nearly the length of the seed ; cotyledons thin and flat. Radical inferior, terete, short, 
straight. 
We can scarcely form a conjecture as to the affinities of this plant, but may note that the fruit is not unlike that of Eucryphia, 
which Lindley, following Choisy, refers to Hypericacese, nothwithstanding its superior radicle. The fruit has the same thin 
fleshy covering that occurs in our plant, and the large seeds (of which there are only three or four in each carpel) are also fur¬ 
nished with a conspicuous wing on the ’ower side ; but the radicle is certainly superior. It is yet uncertain whether the New 
Mexican plant ever bears leaves. Dr. Bigelow saw it early in the spring, when other shrubby plants of the region were begin¬ 
ning to assume their loliage, but it was eniirely naked. We must wait for other obs -rvations on this strange shrub, and especially 
lor its flowers, before assigning it a place in the system. As, however, there can be but little doubt of its constituting an unde¬ 
scribed genus, we may bestow upon it the provisional name of anotia holacantha 
