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BOTANY. 
Navarretia pubescens, Hook. & Am. Bot. Beech, p. 368. lone Valley, in low places; also 
Kniglit’s Ferry on the Stanislaus, on hill sides ; May. 
Navarretia coTULiEFOLi a, Hook. & Arn. 1. c. With the last. 
Navarretia leucocephala, Benth. PI. Hartw. p. 324. Low and wet places, Mark West’s 
Creek, California ; April 30. 
Cilia capitata, Dougl. in Bot. Mag. t. 2698. Hill-sides, Sonoma, California; May. 
Cilia achille 2 efolia, Bentli. in Bot. Beg. & DC. 1. c. Knight’s Ferry on the Stanislaus; 
May. 
Cilia tricolor, Benth , l. c. Hill-sides, Martinez ; April. From Napa Valley are specimens 
gathered April 16, wholly in fruit, which appear to he either C. tricolor or C. multicaulis, but 
with the calyx and peduncles glabrous. 
Cilia (Linanthus) dichotoma, Benth. in DC. 1. c. Napa Valley, and near San Francisco. 
April. This and all the sections (formerly genera) of Bentham, with palmatisect usually oppo¬ 
site leaves, we should prefer to regard as one genus, leaving to Cilia the sections Eugilia, 
Thyrsogilia (of which C. congesta is the type), and Ipomopsis. 
Gilia (Linanthus) dianthoides, Endl. Atakt. t. 29 ; Cocomungo, California; in sandy or 
gravelly places ; March. 
Gilia (Dactylophyllum) pharnaceoides, Benth. in DC. 1. c. Hill-sides, Napa Valley ; April. 
Cilia (Leptosiphon) androsacea, Sleud. ; Benth. 1. c. Plains and hill-sides, Napa Valley, 
etc. April, May. 
Gilia (Leptosiphon) ciliata, Benth. PI. Hartiu., p. 324. Hill-sides and grassy plains, Napa 
Valley, California ; May. 
Cilia (Leptosiphon) micrantiia, Steud.; Benth. 1. c. Hill-sides, Napa Valley ; May: and 
Benicia, California; April. 
Cilia micrantha, var. aurea, Benth. PI. Hartio. 1. c. Hills and plains, Napa Valley; April. 
The stamens nearly equal in length the lohes of the corolla, which is yellow ; otherwise the 
same as C. micrantha. 
GENTIANACEiE. 
Frasera nitida, Benth. PI. Hartw. p. 322. Hill-sides, near Marysville, California; May, 
Capsule, 4-seeded. Seeds linear-oblong, winged. We have specimens of this species in 
fruit, collected in California by Mr. Shelton. It is scarcely distinct from F. albescens. 
Frasera paniculata (n. sp.) : foliis linearibus oppositis ; panicula pyramidata nuda laxa; 
calycis segmentis ovatis acutis corollam duplo brevioribus ; foveis oblongo-linearibus binis; 
corona nulla. Sand-bluffs, Inscription Rock, Zuni county. Specimens were collected very late 
in the season, but they are sufficient to show that this is quite a new species. The plant is 
nearly three feet high, with a long tapering root. Radical leaves in a cluster ; stem leaves in 
three distant pairs. Panicle (fructiferous) about two feet long, loose, compound ; pedicels an 
inch or more in length. Segments of the corolla oblong, obtuse, furnished near the base with 
two narrow pits, which are nearly half the length of the segment, and are pectinately ciliate 
around the margin. Filaments somewhat dilated downward, distinct. Capsule about three- 
fourths of an inch long, very slightly compressed. Seeds 15-20, completely filling the capsule, 
scabrous, wingless. 
As Mr. Bentham remarks, (in Plant. Hartw.) Grisebach’s character of the genus Frasera does 
not agree with the western species, and seems to have been drawn from F. Carolinensis, which 
is destitute of a corona. This is the more remarkable, as Grisebach elaborated the Gentianacea; 
for Hooker’s FI. Bor.-Amer., and described in that work, two species, which are furnished with 
a conspicuous corona, consisting of fimbriate scales, alternating with the stamens. Our new 
species agrees with the eastern one in wanting the crown. Dr. Parry found on the mountains 
east of San Diego another species (F. Parryi, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv ., ined.) still more 
