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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 simple, 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. Streptanthw cramcauli*, 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. 8, the. stamens and pistil. Fig. 4, a separate stamen. All magnified. S. SAtfiTTATUS, Nutt. in Jour. Acad. Nat. Sc. VII., p. 12; not Hook and Am.- Shore of the Salt Lake, May 6. SISYMBRIUM CANBSOBNS, 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. 70, 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 0. aurea of Nuttall from this species. / SIDALCEA MALVJOTLORA, Gray, mss. S. orogana, Gray, pi. Fendl., p. 20. Sida malvceflora, Lindl. S. orogana, Nutt.- Antelope Island, Salt Lake. Fl. June 18- 30. A white- flowered variety occurred in the same locality. MALVASTRUM COCCINEUM, Gray, Gen. HI. 1.121, pi. Fendl. p. 24. Oristaria coccinea, Pursh. Sida coccinea, D. C, Torr. and Gr., fl. 1, p. 682. Var. ( 3 GROSSULARL£ FOLIUM. M. grossularicefolium, Gray, 1. c. Sida gro88ularicefolia, Hook, and Arn.- Islands and shore of the Salt Lake. May and June. Except in the larger size of the plant and in the less divided leaves, the var. ft does not differ from the ordinary form of JK1 coccineum. CALLIRRHOE INVOLUCRATA, Gray, Gen. HI. 2, t. 117; PL |
