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BOTANY. 
Litiiophragma iieteropuylla, Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech, p. 346; Torr. c& Gray, FI. 1, p . 
685. Hill-sides, near Napa, California; April 26. A smaller form occurs on the mountains 
near Oakland. 
Tellima grandiplora, Dougl.; Lindl. Bot. Beg. t. 1178 ; Torr. & Gray, FI. 1 , p. 583. Head 
of Tomales hay, and Redwoods, California; April 12—17. In the dried specimens from Tomales 
bay the petals are bright crimson. We have not received tins plant before, except from Oregon. 
Piiiladelpiius Calafornicus, Benth. PI. Hartio.,p. 309. Ravines, Mokelumne Hill, May 17, 
(flowers unexpanded.) Fremont collected fine specimens of this plant on the rocky banks of 
the American river; June 14, 1846. It grows from 8 to 12 feet high. We fear it is scarcely 
distinct from P. Lewisii. 
Piiiladelpiius Lewisii, Pursh, FI. 1, p. 29. Yar. parvifolius: foliis ovato-oblongis utrin- 
que abatis remote denticulatis margine ciliolatis caeteris glabriusculis ; thyrso pedunculato, 
muitifloro. Hill-sides, Duffield’s Ranch, Sierra Nevada ; May 12. The specimens are without 
flowers, but bear the fruit of the last season. It is therefore uncertain whether the inflorescence 
was naked, as the leaves of the preceding year had fallen. The leaves are scarcely an inch 
long, and the thyrsus is 6-12-flowered. 
Jamesia Americana, Torr. tfc Gray, FI. 1 ,p. 593 ; Gray, PI. Fendl. p. 55. Arroyos in the 
Sandia Mountains, New Mexico ; October. In fruit. 
Fendlera rupicola, Engelm. & Gray, PI. Wright. 1, p. 77, t. 5. Canons of the Pecos, 
New Mexico ; September. 
WHIPPLEA, Nov. Gen. 
Flores hermaphroditi. Calyx 5-6- fidus, tubo brevissimo turbinato cum ovarii basi connato, 
segmentis oblongo-lanceolatis mstivatione valvatis ? Petala 5-6, perigyna, rhomboideo-ovata, 
basi angusta subunguiculata, mstivatione imbricata ? marginibus involutis, decidua. Stamina 
10 vel 12, cum petalis inserta, iisdem opposita et alterna, ea sepalis anteposita breviora: fila- 
menta subulata : anther® didym®, subintrors®, longitudinaliter dehiscentes. Ovarium quadri- 
loculare, quadriovulatum : styli discreti, ovario submquflongo, subulato-lineares, intus plani 
longitrorsum stigmatosi. Ovulum in quoque loculo solitarium, suspensum, anatropum. Cap- 
sula 1 4-5-cocca, parva, basi calysis tubo accreta, coccis coriaceis; intus dehiscentibus. Semen 
pendulum. Embryo minutus, in apice albuminis, rectus ; radicula supera. Suffrutex—Cali- 
fornicus, sarmentosus ; foliis oppositis membranaceis deciduis ovatis trinervatis paucidentatis ; 
stipulis nullis; pedunculis gracilibus terminalibus racemum parvum confertum gerentibus; 
floribus parvis albis. 
Wiiipplea modesta. (Tab. VII.) Red-woods, California; April 12. A slender, nearly simple or 
moderately branching under-shrub, about a foot long, sparsely clothed with strigose scabrous hairs. 
Leaves on very short petioles, about an inch long, membranaceous, obtuse, 2-3-toothed on each 
margin, green on both sides, 3 nerved from the base, soltly strigose-pubescent; the hairs of the 
upper surface arising from a slightly tuberculate base. Peduncles terminal, 1-2 inches long: 
raceme 6-12-flowered, the flowers mostly opposite ; pedicels about 2 lines long, spreading. 
Calyx whitish, the tube pubescent; segments lanceolate, rather acute, one-nerved, erect. Petalg 
exceeding the sepals, about a line and a half long, slightly imbricated, the margin involute in 
the bud. Stamens twice as many as the petals, (very rarely 4,) in a double series: filaments 
subulate, flat, inserted with the petals at the base of the free portion of the calyx: anthers 
didymous, the cells roundish, opening on the margin from the summit to the base ; pollen ex¬ 
tremely minute, globose. Ovary ovate-globose, the base adherent to the tube of the calyx; 
styles (rarely 3) linear, flat, slightly united at the base, the upper half stigmatose on the inside. 
Ovules large for the size of the ovary, suspended from the inner angle of the cell at the summit, 
1 From Dr. T. L. Andrews, lately of California, we have received, just in time for this publication, the YVhipplea with 
nearly ripe fruit. 
