Corispermum.'] CHENOPODEiE. 125 



1. A. mellifera; magis minusve viscida, foliis ovatis petiolatis subsinuatis, floribus 

 glabris, perianthii limbo undulato (luteo-albo). Daugl in BoL Mag, t. 2879. — A, Men- 

 ziesii et vespertina. DoitgL msL 



Hab. Sandy barrens of the interior about the Great Falls of the Columbia, Mount Hood, and the junction 

 of Lewis and Clarke*s Rivers, and interior of N. California. Bouglas. Moist banks of the Walla-wallah 

 River, very frequent. Tolmie, — A particularly variable plant, perhaps too nearly allied to the following, M'ith 

 which it agrees in the colour of the flowers, but differs in the foliage ; this latter again exactly resembles that 

 of A. umhellata (Ex. Fl. t. 194), differing little but in the yellowish-white and downy, not red and glabrous, 

 flowers. 



2. A, arenaria (Menz.) ; viscidissima, subbirsuta, foliis cordatis seu rhombeo-cordatis 

 integerrimis, floribus pubescentibus, periaiuliii limbo undulato. Hook, Ex, Fl, t, 193. 



Hab. Sandy sea-shore, N. W, America (last journey). Votiglas. Mr Menzies was the first to discover 

 this plant in California, 



Ord. LXXV. AMARANTIIACE^. Juss. 



1. AMARANTHUS. Z. 



1. A, paniculatus. L,^^Willd, Ainaranth. p, 3^ t, 32. f, 2. Ph, Am, 1. p, 207. 



Hab. Lake Huron to the Saskatchawan. Dr Todd. JDr Richardson. Columbia. Dr Scouler. 



2. A, albus. Li, — Willd, Amaranth, p, 9. t I, /. 2. P/i, Am, I, p, 206. 



Hab. a weed in the garden at Carlton House Fort. Dr Richardson. Drummond, Menzies' Island in 

 the Columbia, Douglas, 



Ord. LXXVI. CHENOPODE^. Juss. 



1. SALICORNIA. L, 



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1, S, herhacea, L, — a. caule erecto. S. annua. -E. BoL t. 415. Ph, Am, !•/?. 2. 



Hab. Salt marshes in the plains of the Saskatchawan. 



2. S. radicans. Sm, E, Bat, t. 1691. et t 2467. (S. fruticosa, — not of Linn.) 



Hab. Straits of De Fuca, N. W, America. Dr Scouler, 



2. CORISPERMUM. Z. 



Flares bermaphroditi ebracteati. Cal. 0. Cor. 0. Squamula hypogyna inter caulem 

 et germen, v. 0. Stam, 1-5. Stigmata 2, Caryopsis compressa, verticalis. Albumen 

 centrale. Embryo peripbericus, dicotyledoneus. Radicula basilaris, descendens. — Herbae 

 annuce^ ramosce, lamiginosce ; foliis angitstis planis integerrimis sessilibus alternis ; floribus 

 axillaribus sessilibus, solitariis ; caryopse elliptica compressa, una latere plana^ altero con-^ 

 vexa marginata, Ledeb, 



1, C, hyssopifolium (Stev.); foliis caubnis floralibusr^ue submucronulatis uninerviis, 



