Regular Meeting, October 5th, 1863.
President in the Chair.
Seven members present.
A donation to the cabinet of several species of fishes from the Sandwich Islands was received from Mr. Andrew Garrett.
Donation to the Library:
Fragmenta Phytographiæ Australiæ, by Ferdinand Mueller, Vol. III, from the author.
Mr. Bolander stated that he had recently collected two grasses believed not to have been before found on this coast, though common in the Atlantic States, viz.: Paspalum distichum (L.) along the shores of Clear Lake, covering large patches of ground, and Leersia oryzoides (Swartz), along Cache Creek, of much larger size than he had met with in the East. He believed Gastridium australe, which covers almost every dry hill in the interior, to be indigenous.
Dr. Behr made some remarks on the date of introduction of some foreign plants, now becoming very common in this vicinity, which he intends to make the subject of a future article.
Fig. 16.
Mirabilis Californica. Var. villosa Kellogg.
[For description [see page 10] of this volume.]