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Show 886 APPENDIX p.- BOTANY. LtJPJXflS ALBIOAULIS* Dongl. ?- High graapy land, Antelope Island, Salt Xake. ( FL. JuneJ& Q. ^ suffrutjBfcent species densely clothed with short appressed almost silvery hairs. The leaflets are mostly in, sevens, oblanceolftte and aoitfe. The flowers are nearly as large as in Z. perennis, in rather dense, somewhat rer-tioillate spikes; and. the* upper lip of the calyx is strongly socoate or slightly sparred. . COWAXIA STA3ff8BUKiA5A, Torr. ( Plate III.) C foliis pin-netifido 5- 7- lobatis, lobie ohlongis; floribus flayia. C. plionta t Tom in. Fr& n. 2d Report, p. 814; not of Don*. Stanabury's Island, Salt Lake. . Colonel Fremont eolleoted this plant in the. mountain* of. California, along the Virgin River, a tributary of the Colprado. It is nearly related to C. ' rhexicana, Don, ( in Linn. Trans. 14, p. 574, t. £ 2, f. 1,) which has also yellow flowers; but the leaves in that species are three parted,' with libear segments, and they have a long narrowly cnneate base* A third species of tbifc genus, 0. pfieaU^ Don, was introduced; into England from Mexico in 1885, and figured in Sweety British Flower Garden, ( t. 400.) This is clearly the plant afterward described and beautifully figured by Zucearini in hia Plant. Nov. v* minus cognit, under the name of Cowania purpurea* It is also Qttggia rupe$ tri$ of Englemann, in Wislisenius's Jour. The 0. 8tan* buriana 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 spunk They are ovate in outline, 4- 6 lines long, deeply out into five or seven lobes, and whitish tomentose underneath, except the strong greea midrib, but green and somewhat glabrous above. They are revo-lute on the margin* of a coriaceous texture, and sparingly dotted iHth conspicuous glands. The flowers are solitary, terminal, and on ehart 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 ca\ yxrsegm$ ntq « Styles persistent, beautifully plumose, and in fruit an inch or more* in length. Achenium linear- oblong, striate* and clothed with short appressed hairs. For further remarks on the genus Cowania, see Plants* Fremontienee, in the Smithsonian Contributions, vol* 5. Plate III* Cowania statuburiana ; a branch of the natural size. Fig. 1, a leaf of the natural sise. Fig. 2, uppe; surface of a leaf magnified* Fig. 8, under surface of the. same. Fig. 4* |
