Botanical Contributions, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Botanical Contributions, Vol. 3

The diagnoses of two or three of the following Species, of the col lections of 1860 1862, have already been published in the Proceed ings of the California Academy of Natural Sciences, Vol. 3, pp. 101 103. The plants described are from the collections of the Geo logical Survey when not otherwise specified.

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This is doubtless a truly distinct species, growing six or seven feet high in alluvial soil, the greenish-white Howers fully half an inch long, the stem glabrous and glaucous.

Thelypodium (Pachypodium, Nutt.) Brachycarpum, Torr. (in Wilkes's S. Pacif. Ex. Exped. Bot. W. Amer. t. 1) ; caule virgato ; foliis caulinis parvis crebriusculis sagittatis integerrimis erectis ; racemo elongato angustissimo spiciformi ; pedicellis calyce brevioribus ; sepalis linearibus ; petalis angustissime linearibus ; antheris mucronatis ; siliquis semi- aut sub-pollicaribus, valvis carinato-uninerviis. - Valley of Mono Lake, alt. 6,500 feet. This well-marked species having been rediscovered by Prof. Brewer, a diagnosis is here given, since that of Dr. Torrey is still unpublished, and the plate is little known. Dr. C.L. Anderson has collected it in Nevada, with a very long virgate spike, and with some mature fruit.

Smelowskia? Californica : cinereo-puberula, glabrata ; radice ut videtur annua vel bienni ; caule 1 - 2-pedali ; racemis demum paniculatis ; foliis pinnatipartitis, segmentis 5 - 7 oblongis obtusis sæpe 3 - 5-lobatis ; floribus parvis luteis ; calyce deciduo; siliculis pusillis elliptieis oblongisve utrinque acutis stylo brevissimo apiculatis, loculis 1 - 2-spermis. - On Mount Dana, alt.10,000 feet, June, in flower ; and near Mono Lake, alt. 6,450, July, with young fruit. - With its annual or biennial root, and much the habit of Sisymbrium canescens, this would render the genus Smelowskia yet less natural; but here it technically belongs. The flowers are only a little long ; the elliptical, ovoid, or somewhat fusiform silicles one or two lines long ; valves very obscurely one-nerved ; cells 2-ovulate. Young seeds oblong.

Draba eurycarpa : multiceps, nana, stellato-tomentosa ; foliis spathulatis integerrimis in caudice rosulato-confertis ; scapo leviter exserto paucifloro ; siliquis ovatis stylo subulato acuminatis glabris (1/2 - 3/4-pollicaribus). - On a peak of the Sierra Nevada south of Sonora Pass, alt. 11,500 feet. In fruit only, the seeds and most of the valves shed. The tufts of leaves (half an inch in length) rise only about an inch above the surface of the ground, and above them the large and silvery partitions of the pods are very conspicuous. Funiculi short, about 10 in each cell.

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