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* * Fruit strongly carinate-angled dorsally : cotyledons accumbent (transvors. ) f<. tlic ventral fate. 

 -t Wings conspicuous, more or less introrse, in (lie last species small. 



V. COngesta, LINDL. Commonly rather stout : flowers in a capituliform or oblong simple 

 or interrupted thyrsus, or sparingly verticillastrate below: corolla rose or flcsh-colm-ed. :; .,r 

 4 lines long or in some individuals smaller, with obviously bilabiate limb, and spur half or 

 less the length of the very gibbous throat: fruit broadly winged, and \\iih prominent, hut 

 rather obtuse keel, from glabrous to puberuleut or sometimes thicklv short-\ illous cither on 

 fertile cell or on wings also. But. Keg. t. 1094 ; Gray, 1. c. J'/-tri/ix congesta, 1)( '. Pn.dr. 

 iv. 631 ; Hook. 1. c. ; Torr. & Gray, 1. c. ; Gray.Bot. Calif, i. 287. /'. brachystemon, I-'isch. X 

 Meyer, Ind. Sem. Petrop. 1835, Suppl. 47 (22), a form with smaller Mowers (the state with 

 included stamens and style) and villous-pubescent fruit, according to specimen from St. 

 Petersb. garden; but the char, of flowers, four times smaller than in 1\ congesta and uliiic, 

 would he that of V. macrocera. Low and moist ground, Brit. Columbia to \V. California. 



V. anomala, GRAY. Either slender or rather stout, freely branching : corolla only a line 

 long, white or flesh-colored, wholly destitute /' x/u; at most a small mammiform gibbosity 

 near the base of the short and broadly funnelform throat; limb small, obscurely bilabiate 

 (usually 4-lobed and posterior lobe emarginate or 2-cleft) : fruit comparatively largo (mostly 

 a line and a half long), acutely angled with sharp edge on the back, with broad wings usually 

 iuflexed at base and expanding above, but some fruits wingless. Proc. Am. Acad. xix. 83. 

 Wet grounds on and near the Columbia River; Multuomah Co., Oregon, Ilowdl, and 

 Klickitat Co., Washington Terr., Suksdorf. 



V. aphaiioptera, GKAY, 1. c. Slender, with aspect and inflorescence of the next : corolla 

 onlv a line long, white, with obviously bilabiate limb and short basal spur: fruit pubcrulent 

 or glabrate, trigonous ; dorsal angle salient but rather obtuse ; lateral angles with distinct but 

 narrow incurved wings. Springy ground on hillsides, along the Columbia River. Washing- 

 ton Terr., Suksdorf. Columbia Plains, Nuttall, under unpublished name of Plcctriiis capi- 

 tata, appears to be the same ; specimen insufficient. 



-1 H Wings wholly wanting to the triquetrous fruit, the lateral angles of which resemble the 

 dorsal. Eetckea, DC. 



V. samolif 61ia, GRAY, 1. c. A span to a foot high : verticillastrate clusters 2 to 4, small : 

 bracts slender-subulate (not pinnately parted as Hoeck states, but uppermost sometimes pal- 

 matelv 3-parted) : corolla a line or so in length, obscurely bilabiate, with short conical-saccate 

 spur:"akeue-like fruit of the shape of buckwheat, glabrous or a little pubescent, in Chilian 

 plants hardly, in ours rather over, a line long. L'< tch mtmolifoHu, I)( '. 1. c. 042. ft. major, 

 Fisch. & Meyer, 1. c. (5) 30. Pltctritis samo/ifolia & P. major, Hack in Engler, Jahrb. iii. : 

 Low grounds on the Columbia River, Washington Terr., Oregon (Suksdorf), and coast of 

 California, coll. by the Russian botanists. (Chili, smaller form.) 



ORDER LXXII. DIPSACACE.E. 



Herbs (all of the Old World) ; with opposite or verticillate leaves, no stipules, 

 capitate and involucrate inflorescence ; the flowers subtended by bracts, and ra.-li 

 with a more or less obvious involucel, hermaphrodite ; calyx-tube adnate to the 

 one-celled simple ovary ; corolla epigynous ; stamens inserted on its tub.- alter- 

 nate with its lobes, of equal number or fewer, wholly unconnected; style fili- 

 form and stigma simple; ovule solitary and suspended, anatropous ; seed \\ith 

 a straight embryo in fleshy albumen. Corolla invgulur or nearly regular; llu- 

 lobes imbricated in the bud. Fruit an akene, more or less adnatc to the involucel 



which embraces it. 



SCABIOSA ATROPTTRFUREA, L, SWEET SCABIOUS of the gardens, is familiar : and one 

 or two of the following genus have become spontaneous. 



1. DfPSACUS, Tourn. TEASEL. (Greek and Latin name of Ten-el. 

 to come from S/r<fe, thirsty.) Flowers in a terminal head or short spike, in u hid., 



