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Show 386 APPENDIX D.- BOTANY. LUPINUS ALBICAULIS, Dougl. ?- High grassy land, Antelope Island, Salt Lake. Fl. June 30. A suffrutescent species densely clothed with short appressed almost silvery hairs. The leaflets are mostly in sevens, oblanceolate and acute. The flowers are nearly as large as in L. perennis, in rather dense, somewhat ver-ticillate spikes; and the upper lip of the calyx is strongly soccate or slightly spurred. COWANIA STANSBURIANA, Torr. ( Plate III.) C. foliis pin-natifido 5- 7- lobatis, lobis oblongis; floribus flavis. C. plieata t Torr. in Fr6n. 2d Report, p. 314; not of Don. Stansbury's Island, Salt Lake. Colonel Fremont collected this plant in the mountains of California, along the Virgin River, a tributary of the Colorado. It is nearly related to C mexicana, Don, ( in Linn. Trans. 14, p. 574, t. 22, f. 1,) which has also yellow flowers; but the leaves in that species are three parted, with linear segments, and they have a long narrowly cuneate base. A third species of this genus, C plieata, Don, was introduced into England from Mexico in 1835, and figured in Sweet's British Flower Garden, ( t. 400.) This is clearly the plant afterward described and beautifully figured by Zuccarini in his Plant. Nov. v. minus cognit, under the name of Cowania purpurea. It is also Qreggia rupestris of Englemann, in Wislizenius's Jour. The 0. stansburiana is a shrub attaining the height of from six to twelve feet. It is much branched, and the young twigs are glandular. The leaves grow mostly from short spurs. They are ovate in outline, 4- 6 lines long, deeply cut into five or seven lobes, and whitish tomentose underneath, except the strong green midrib, but green and somewhat glabrous above. They are revo-lute on the margin, of a coriaceous texture, and sparingly dotted with conspicuous glands. The flowers are solitary, terminal, and on short peduncles. The calyx- tube is turbinate and glandular; the segments are broad and obtuse. Petals sulphur- yellow, broadly obovate, two or three times the length of the calyx- segments. Styles persistent, beautifully plumose, and in fruit an inch or more in length. Achenium linear- oblong, striate, and clothed with short oppressed hairs. For further remarks on the genus Cowania, see Plant ® Fremontianae, in the Smithsonian Contributions, vol. 5. Plate III. Cowania stansburiana; a branch of the natural size. Fig. 1, a leaf of the natural size. Fig. 2, upper surface of a leaf magnified. Fig. 8, under surface of the same. Fig. 4, |