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BOTANY. 
mountains of Nevada and in the Walisatch ; 4,500-7,000 feet altitude ; 
May-September. (396.) 
Epilobium angustifolium, L. In the mountains of North Carolina 
and northward ; Greenland, and throughout British America to Behring 
Strait and the Pacific, southward to California and in the Rocky Mountains 
to New Mexico, (Fendler.) In the West Humboldt Mountains, and Ruby 
Valley, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch; 6-8,000 feet altitude ; July-Septem- 
ber. (397.) 
Epilobium obcoedatum. Gray. Proc. Amer. Acad., 6. 532. Dwarf, 
glabrous ; stems decumbent, 1-5-flowered ; leaves opposite, sessile, broadly 
ovate or oval, somewhat denticulate, glaucous ; buds nodding; calyx-tube 
produced beyond the minutely puberulent ovary, infundibuliform, about half 
shorter than the broadly lanceolate lobes ; petals large and of a bright rose- 
color, obcordately 2-lobed, spreading ; style exceeding the stamens, declined ; 
stigma shortly 4-lobed ; capsule clavate-oblong, pedicellate. — Alpine ; stems 
3-5' long, from a much branched woody rootstock ; leaves somewhat crowded, 
J' long ; petals J' in lengtli. Sierras of California. East Humboldt and 
Clover Mountains, Nevada ; 10,000 feet altitude ; August, September. (398.) 
Zauschneeia^ Californica, Presl. Canescently and somewhat villously 
pubescent; stems decumbent, 1-2° long; leaves oblong or linear-lanceolate, 
entire or denticulate, the lower ones opposite ; flowers l' in length, petals 
deep-red, calyx lighter. — Very variable in its foliage ; the specimens have 
mostly ovate or oblong leaves, 1-1 J' long. Southern and Lower CaUfornia, 
Arizona and Sonora. Wahsatch Mountains, Utah; 5-6,000 feet altitude; 
July, August. (399.) 
Claekia^ ehomboidea, Dougl. Stems 1-3° high, sparingly branched, 
1 ZAUSCHNERIA, Presl. Calyx-tobe linear, 4-anglea, suddenly expanding above the ovary into 
a deciduous clavate-fnnnelform 4-lobed limb, globose at base and with 8 scales below the middle, 4 of 
which are deflexed. Petals 4, on the throat of the calyx, obovate, 2-lobed. Stamens 8, the alternate 
shorter, with filiform filaments ; anthers linear-oblong. Ovary 4-celled ; style elongated, filiform, with a 
capitate 4-lobed stigma ; ovules numerous, in one row upon the inner angles of the cells. Capsule linear, 
imperfectly 4-celled, 4-valve<l, the valves free from the axis ; seeds oblong, attached to the axis, tufted 
with long hairs at the apex. — A low branched perennial, with sessile leaves and large solitary axillary 
sessile flowers. Benth. &. Hook. 
2CLARKIA, PuRSii. Calyx-tnbe linear, 4-angled, slightly produced above the ovary ; limb fun- 
nelform, 4-parted, deciduous. Petals 4, unguiculate, dilated, entire or 3-lobed, the claw 2-toothed. Sta- 
mens 8, on the throat of the calyx, the alternate ones shorter, with filiform filaments ; anthers oblong or 
linear, at length revolntc. those of the shorter stamens smaller or abortive. Disk annular, surroundino- 
the base of the style. Style filiform, with a broad cruciately 4-lobed stigma. Capsule linear, narrowed 
above, 4-celled, 4-valved to the middle, the numerous ascending papillose seeds in one row upon the ax- 
illarj' placenta?.— Annual branching virgate herbs, with alternate leaves and rather large flowers 
Benth. & Hook. 
