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ANEMIOPSIS CALIFORNICA., 
Californian Anemiopsis. 
Nat. Ord. SauruRE#.—HExanpDRIA MonoGyntIA. 
Gen. Char. Involuerum 5-8-phyllum, coloratum. Spadix simplex; floribus 
hermaphroditis, bracteatis. Perianthium nullum. Stamina epigyna, 6 nunc 8 ; 
Jilamenta crassa. Anthere ovales, biloculares; loculis lateralibus connectivo 
crasso disjunctis. Styli 3 nunc 4; ovaria coadunata, apice hiantia, 1-locularia. 
Placenta 3-4 inter stylos laterales, pauciovulate. Fructus cum spadice coales- 
cens. Capsule uniloculares, 3-4-valves, apice solo dehiscentes, sub-6-sperme. 
Semina subrotunda, punctulata.—Herba perennis, subaquatica, stolonifera. Caulis 
monophyllus, proliferus, monocephalus. Folia radicalia, stipulata, cordato-obova- 
lia, obtusa, petiolata ; caulinum amplezicaule. 
ANeEmiopsts Californica. 
ANEmIops!s Californica (under the gen. name Anemia). Nutt. in Tayl. Annals of 
Nat. Hist. v. 1. p.136. Hook. and Arn. Bot. of Beech. Voy. p. 390. t. 92. 
This remarkable plant was first detected by Nuttall at San 
Diego, Upper California, and some of his original specimens are 
preserved in our herbarium. Our next were received from 
Douglas, and from the late Dr. Sinclair collected during the sur- 
veying voyage of H.M.S. Sulphur, on the American Pacific coasts; 
from Dr. Coulter, from Fremont’s collections, n. 472; and since, 
from Zacatecas, Hartweg, n. 4, and New Mexico. Our specimens 
here figured were raised by Mr. Wheeler from Californian seeds, 
and we are glad to be able to illustrate so rare and little-known 
a plant from living individuals. 
Descr. The root is perennial, fusiform, and often fasciculate. 
Leaves nearly all radical, long-petiolate, elliptical, subcordate at 
the base, obtuse, blunt, entire, with few pinnated veins ; petioles 
hairy, sheathing at the base. Svem, or perhaps rather scape, 
hairy, longer than the leaves, erect, terete, monophyllous; the 
leaf sessile, and frequently bearing a young plant from its axil. 
Spadix at first short, erect, conical, clothed with hermaphrodite 
flowers, without any perianth, but subtended by an involucre of 
JANUARY Ist, 1862. 
