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Show 884 APPENDIX D*- BOTANY. mostly radical and deeply pinnatified; the terminal lobe much larger than the others, and triangular or deltoid. The stem is siniple, from one to two feet high, more or less inflated toward the base, and nearly naked above. The flowers are nearly sessile, in a long terminal raceme, erect when first expanded, but finally becoming patulous. Calyx about half an inch long, the sepals oblong- lanceolate and woolly externally. The petals are dark purple, with a pale waved margin. Filaments all free. The siliques are not known. Plate I. Strcptanthus crcmicaulis, of the natural size. Fig. 1, a sepal, showing the inner face and part of the hairiness on the back. Fig. 2, a petal. Fig. 3, the stamens and pistil. Fig. 4, a separate stamen. All magnified. • S. SA< H* TATU8, Nutt. in Jour. Acad. Nat. So. VII., p. 12; not Hook and Am.- Shore of the Salt Lake, May 6. SISYMBRIUM CAXESGKNS, Nutt.- West shore of Salt Lake. PHYSARIA DIDYMOCARPA, Gray. PI. Illustr. I., p. 162; ( in a note.) Vesicaria didymocarpa. Hook.- On Green River. In fruit, September 12th. CLEOMB LUTEA, Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. I., p. * I09 * t. 25. C. aurea, Nutt?- Carrington's Island, Salt Lake. Fl. June 18. Except in the greater length of the stipe and the large size of the plant, I see nothing to distinguish C. aurea of NuttaUfrom this species. SIDALCBA liAL'VJBFLORA, Gr& y, mss. S.' orogana, Gray, ~ pi. Fendl., p. 20.^ Sida malvce/ lora, Lindl. S. orogana, Nutt.- Antelope Island, Salt Lake. Fl. June 18- 80. A white- flowered variety occurred in the same locality. , MALVASTBUM coccufBUM, Gray, Gen. 111. 1.121, pi. Fendl. p. " 24. Crutaria coccinea, Pursh. Sida coccineO, D. G^ Torr. and Or., fl. 1, p.- 682. Var. fi GROSSULARifiPOLiUM. M. grobsularicefolium, Gray, 1. c. Sida grog$ u} aricefolia, Hook, and Arn.- Islands and shore of the Salt Lake. May and June. > Except in the larger * ize of the plant and in the less divided ~ leaves, the var. @ does not differ from the ordinary form of Ml coccineum. ' CALLIRRHOB INVOLUCRATA, Gray, Gen. 111. 2, t. 117; PL |
