Regular Meeting, June 15th, 1863.
Reading edition
Dr. Ayres in the Chair.
Six members present.
Donations to the Cabinet:
Insects from seeds imported from Germany, by Mr. Bevans; plants from Sonoma, by Dr. Behr.
Donations to the Library:
Annual Report of the Trustees of the Museum of Comparative Zoology for 1862. American Journal of Science for May, 1863, from the Editor.
Dr. Kellogg read the following paper:
Description of a New Species of Mentzelia.
BY A. KELLOGG, M.D.
Mentzelia L.
M. pectinata Kellogg. [Fig. 9.]
Fig. 9.
Rough, with a white minutely-barbed pubescence throughout; stem four to six inches high; simple, or slightly branched at the summit; greenish, or a little blanched at the base; leaves pinnatifid, lower petiolate, the upper sessile, three-nerved; flowers of a shining golden color, with a lustrous metallic hue, shading from a deep, vivid orange to a burnt carmine center; stamens very numerous, all filiform, scarcely half the length of the petals; anthers white; style longer, spirally twisted above at the divisible portion; petals five, spreading, obcordate or obovate cuneate at the base. Flowers from three-fourths to one inch in diameter, clustered at the summit by the short branches; short pedicellate (the uppermost often sessile or sub-sessile); two or three linear-subulate bracts above the pedicel at the base of the capsule; capsule thickened upwards from a sharp base; calyx segments lance-subulate acute.
Root ligneous.
Found by Mrs. Hutchings on the mountains above Visalia.