CATALOGUE. 
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pubescent or subglabrous above, petioled ; flowers white or rose-colored, 
6-8" broad, numerous, in a crowded scorpioid spike ; calyx viscidly hairy, 
the tube about equaling the ovary and the oblong acuminate segments ; petals 
obovate, entire, rather shorter than the slightly unequal stamens and style ; 
stigma subglobose ; capsules 6-9" long, sessile, viscid-pubescent or hirsute, 
tapering from near the base, somewhat striate, much curved ; seeds 1" in 
length, linear-oblong, ascending, in a single row. — Washington Territory, 
(Douglas and Nuttall.) Virginia and Lake ranges, Nevada; 6,000 feet alti- 
tude ; August-November. (419.) 
Q^NOTHEEA ALYSSOIDES, H. & A. Annual, canescently puberulent, low, 
branched from the base ; stems ascending ; leaves oblong-lanceolate, attenu- 
ate into a petiole, denticulate or nearly entire, the upper ones becoming 
linear ; spike many-flowered, unilateral, scorpioid ; calyx-tube shorter than 
the ovary, about equaling the sepals and petals ; petals orbicular, entire, rose- 
color or nearly white, a little shorter than the equal stamens and style ; stigma 
capitate ; capsules linear, nearly 1' long, very slender, much contorted ; seeds 
small, i" loiig? oblong, ascending, in one series, very minutely reticulate- 
pitted. — About 6' high ; basal leaves 1-2' long, the cauline much smaller ; 
flowers often quite showy, petals 2-3" broad. California (Douglas) and Ne- 
vada; Southern Utah, (Palmer, 1870.) Frequent from the West Humboldt 
to the Toyabe Mountains and on the low ranges about Salt Lake; 4,500-6,000 
feet altitude ; May-September. (420.) 
Var. (!) MiNUTiFLORA. Stems ascending or decumbent ; the cauline 
leaves often numerous and scarcely smaller than the lower ones ; flowers very 
small, 1" in diameter, axillary the whole length of the stems, the spike 
slightly circinate ; calyx-tube many times shorter than the ovar\ , about equal- 
ing the segments ; petals white, emarginate, shorter than the calyx-lobes ; 
stamens very short, the longer filaments equaling the anthers ; capsules i-1' 
long ; seeds silvery white — It somewhat resembles but has none of the hir- 
suteness of CE. ?mcranlha, which has also broader and sessile leaves, yellow- 
ish flowers, turning green, and an ovate dark-colored seed. Found in 
Monitor Valley, Nevada, and upon Black Rock Point and Stansbury Island, 
Salt Lake ; 4,200-5,500 feet altitude ; June, July. (421.) 
G^NOTHERA DENTATA, Cav. Annual, canescently puberulent or nearly 
glabrous, low, branching from the base ; stems ascending or decumbent ; 
leaves linear, very narrow, remotely denticulate, attenuate at base ; calyx- 
