America, from South California to Arizona, New Mexico, 
and from Western Texas and South Utah. It was 
first known botanically from being collected during 
the United States’ Survey of the Mexican Boundary, by 
Dr. Parry, Botanist to that expedition, the results of which 
were published by Dr. Torrey. The stem and leaves have 
a pleasant acidity, and are, according to Watson, used in 
California and Utah, under the name of Wild Pie plant. 
The specimen figured was raised from seeds sent to the 
Royal Gardens, Kew, in 1890 by Dr. F. H. Goodwin, of 
Tucson, Arizona, which flowered in the herbaceous ground 
in June, 1894, 
Descr.—Quite glabrous. Root of fusiform tubers. Stem 
twelve to twenty-four inches high, stout, terete, leafy, and 
as wellas the whole plant perfectly glabrous, pale green, 
suffused with brown. Leaves six to ten inches long by 
two to three broad, oblong- or ovate-lanceolate, acuml- 
nate, narrowed into a stout petiole, pale grey-green on 
both surfaces, rather mottled beneath, reticulately nerved; | 
midrib stout; nerves six to ten pairs. Panicles axillary 
and terminal, subsessile, three to five inches long. /lowers 
nearly half an inch in diameter, crowded, bisexual, green; 
pedicels a sixth to a third of an inch long, jointed at the 
base, red brown. Outer sepals minute, inner very large, 
orbicular, cordate at the base; fruiting two-thirds of an 
inch in diameter, pale brown, quite entire, disk without 
a callus. <Anthers linear. Ovary very broadly ovoid. 
Achene about one-sixth of an inch long.—J. D. H. 
Fig. 1, Flower; 2 and : . iti 
panicle of the sabe! tee. ee er a es 7 gs 
