386 APPENDIX D. BOTANY. 



Lupincs aleicaulis, Dougl. ?— High grassy land, Antelope 

 Island, Salt Lake. Fl. June 30. A suffrutescent species densely 

 clothed with short appressed almost silvery hairs. The leaflets 

 are mostly in sevens, oblanceolate and acute. The flowers are 

 nearly as large as in L. perennis, in rather dense, somewhat ver- 

 ticillate spikes ; and the upper lip of the calyx is strongly saccate 

 or slightly spurred. 



Cowania Stansburiana, Torr. (Plate HI.) C. foliis pin- 

 natifido — 5-7-lobatis, lobis oblongis; floribus flavis. C. plicata? 

 Torr. in Fr6m. 2d Report, p. 314; not of Don. Stansbury's 

 Island, Salt Lake. Colonel Fremont collected this plant in the 

 mountains of California, along the Virgin River, a tributary of 

 the Colorado. It is nearly related to C. Mexicana, Don, (in Linn. 

 Trans. 14, p. 574, t. 22, f. 1,) which has also yellow flowers; but 

 the leaves in that species are three — parted, with linear segments, 

 and they have a long narrowly cuneate base. 



A third species of this genus, C. plkata, Don, was introduced 

 into England from Mexico in 1835, and is figured in Sweet's British 

 Flower Garden, (t, 400.) This is clearly the plant afterward 

 described and beautifully figured by Zuccarini in his Plant. Nov. 

 v. minus cognitse, under the name of Coivania purpurea. It is 

 also Greggia rupestris of Engelmann, in Wislizenius's Jour. 



The C. Stansburiana is a shrub attaining the height of from 

 six to twelve feet. It is much branched, and the young twigs are 

 glandular. The leaves grow mostly from short spurs. They are 

 ovate in outline, 4-6 lines long, deeply cut into five or seven 

 lobes, and whitish tomentose underneath, except the strong green 

 midrib, but green and somewhat glabrous above. They are revo- 

 lute .on the margin, of a coriaceous texture, and sparingly dotted 

 with conspicuous glands. The flowers are solitary, terminal, and 

 on short peduncles. The calyx-tube is turbinate and glandular; 

 the segments are broad and obtuse. Petals sulphur-yellow, broadly 

 obovate, two or three times the length of the calyx-segments. 

 Styles persistent, beautifully plumose, and in fruit an inch or more 

 in length. Achenium linear-oblong, striate, and clothed with short 

 appressed hairs. For further remarks on the genus Cowania, see 

 Plantoe Fremontianae, in the Smithsonian Contributions, vol. 6. 



Plate III. Cowania Stansburiana ; a branch of the natural 

 size. Fig. 1, a leaf of the natural size. Fig. 2, upper surface 

 of a leaf magnified. Fig. 3, under surface of the same. Fig. 4, 



