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BOTANY. 
They compose a small section section of the genus, quite otherwise characterized, however, than 
is Decaisne’s Micropsyllium, and not embracing all his species. 
PLUMBAGINACEiE. 
Armeria vulgaris, Willd. , var. A. Andina var. Californica, Boiss. in DO. Prodr. 12, p. 
G82 ; Benth. PI. Hartw. p. 332. Hills near San Francisco ; and Laguna of Santa Rosa creek ; 
April. We are not satisfied with the characters on which the acute Boissier has separated into 
many species what may, perhaps, better be regarded as variations of A. vulgaris. 
STYRACACEiE. 
Styrax Californicum, Torr. Desc. Darlingt. in Smithson. Contrib. 6, p. 4, t. 12. Hill-sides 
and river hanks, Mokelumne Hill, California ; May 11 : in blossom. Some of the racemes are 
5-6-flowered. This is quite an ornamental shrub, and well deserves cultivation. 
PRIMUL ACEiE. 
Trientalts Europjea, Linn. var. latifolia. T. latifolia, Hook. FI. Bor.-Am. 2, p. 121. 
Tokeloma creek ; April 16. Mountains, near Oakland, California; Aprils. 
Glaux maritima, Linn. Martinez, California ; April 23. 
Anagallis arvensis, Linn. There was no label to this plant. It is, however, common in 
California, and was doubtless introduced from Europe. 
Dodecatheon Meadia, Linn. var. D. integrifolium and D. frigidum, (Cham.) Hook. FI. 
Bor.-Am. 2, p.. 118. Cocomungo ; March 11; and mountains, near Oakland, California ; 
April 4. We can recognize but one species of Dodecatheon. The length of the tube of filaments 
is exceedingly variable. 
OROBANCHACEiE. (By A. Gray.) 
Boschniakia strobilacea (sp. nov.) : squamis orbicularibus vel ohovato-rotundis ohtusissimis 
ubique confertim imbricatis, floralibus flores submquantibus ; calyce postice truncato baud 
obliquo, dentibus 3 lineari-subulatis tubo longioribus ; labio corollte inferiore patente superius 
admquante, lobis ohlongis ; fiiamentis hasi barbatis ; placentis 4 sequidistantibus. Dry and 
rocky hills, South Yuba, California ; May. A span high, thick, resembling Conopholis Amer¬ 
icana in aspect , the scales larger and broader, about half an inch wide, brown in the dried 
state. The three slender teeth of the calyx are anterior and lateral, a line and a half long ; the 
two others obsolete or indistinct. Anthers sparsely hairy. The shape of the scales and of the 
calyx teeth at once distinguishes this from B. tuberosa and B. glabra of Oregon, etc. 
Piielipasa Californica, Don, Syst. 4, p. 632. Orobanche Californica, Cham. & Sclilecht. in 
Linncea, 3, p. 134. Plains, near Marysville, California ; May. The specimen renders it prob¬ 
able that P. Californica is not distinct from P. Ludoviciana, which has a wide range. It is 
nearly allied on the other hand to P. comosa, (the Orobanche comosa of Hooker,) which must 
find a place in this genus, notwithstanding the bractlets are remote from the calyx. 
Aphyllon uniflorum, Gray, Man.Bot. N. States, ed. 1 ,p. 290. Napa valley, California; April 
27. The range of this species includes all temperate North America, from Newfoundland and 
Canada, south to Florida and Texas, and west to the Pacific. Had Wallroth’s name of Anoplon 
been generally adopted by succeeding botanists, it might have been unwise to disturb it. But 
very small anthers—whether sterile or precocious is uncertain, probably the latter, as the ovary is uniformly fruitful;—and the 
corolla, as is well known, becomes cornivent-closed after anthesis, its broad lobes involutely and imbricately enwrapping each 
other, so as to form a kind of beak surmounting the fruit. This is the type of Decaisne’s section Cleiosantha. — Gray, Mss. 
