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Show APPENDIX D.- BO* ANt. 88T a flower- bud. Fig. 5> a flower laid open, Fig; 6, a petal. Fig. 7, plan of the flower. Fig. 8, a pistil. Figv 9, front view of the style and stigma. Fig. 10, side view of the same* Fig. 11, a carpel of the natural sise. Fig. 12, the same magnified. Fig. 18, a stamen seen in front. Fig. 14, the same seet> from behind. Fig. 15, longitudinal section of a ripe carpel, showing the erect seed. Fig. 16, transverse section of the same. AD the figures except No. 1 are more er less magnified. SPIBEA DUMOSA, Nutt. Mss.; Hook. Lond. Sowri Bot. 6, p. 217; Gray, pi. Fendk p. 40. 8. ducotor, Torr. in jinn. Lyfe, N. York, 2, p. 195; net of Pursh.- Stansbury's Is& nd, Salt Lake. Fl. June 26. Hate IV. Spirma dunuma r * branch' of the natural sise. Fig. 1, the fructiferous calyx. Fig* 2, a carpel. Fig. 8, the same laid open. 8. o* ULi » otiA, var; BA^ OIPLOEA, Toff, and G*. Fl. 1, p. 414.- Summit of a mountain on Stansbury's Island, Salt Lake. Fl. June 26. A tall, much branched shrub, with leaves scarcely more than, half an inch in diameter* ( ENOTHERA OESPITOSA, Nutt.- Shore and islands of the Salt Lake. May and June. Ushally acaufescent, but sometiifces throwing up a branching stem about six inches high. The fiowef is from two to three inches in diameter, white and fragrant. 8. montana, of Nuttall, is hardly distinct ' from this specites, and, perhaps, ( E. marginaia should be regarded as a tariety of the same. CE. SCAPOIDBA, l? utt. in Torr. and Gr. Fl. 1, p. 506.- Western shore of the Salt Lake. Fl. and fr. May. ( E. ALBICAULIS, Nutt.; Torr. and Gr. Fl. p. 493*- Islands of the Salt Lake. Fl. June. Stem about a foot high; tb* flowers small, white, and inodorous. GAYOPHTTUM KAMOSISSIMUM, Torr. and Gr. Fl. 1, p. 618.^- Antelope Island, Salt Lake. Stem about eighteen inches high, with very slender branches, and flowers even smaller than in Mr. Nuttall's specimen of this plant. The pedicles are about twice ar long as the ripe pod* MENTZBLIA OKNATA, Torr. and Gr., and Gray, PL Fendl. p. 47. Bartonia omata, Nutt.- Islands of the Salt Lake. In our speci* |