136 BOTANY. 
Galium boreale, L. Northern States to the Arctic Ocean and Oregon, 
and in the Rocky Mountains from Wyoming to New Mexico ; Southern Cali- 
fornia, (Xantus.) East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch ; 
5-6,000 feet altitude ; June-September. (487.) 
VALERIANACE^. 
Valeriana dioica, L., Var. sylvatica. (F. sylvatica^ Eich.) New- 
foundland, and from Vermont to Wisconsin and the Saskatchewan, and in the 
Rocky Mountains to latitude 56°; Oregon, California, (Brewer,) Colorado 
and New Mexico. Frequent in the East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, and 
in the Wahsatch and Uintas ; 6,500-9,000 feet altitude; June-Septem- 
ber. (488.) 
Valeriana edulis, Nutt. Ohio, Wisconsin and Upper Canada ; Wash- 
ington Territory, Utah and New Mexico. Toyabe Mountains and Ruby 
Valley, Nevada, and in the Wahsatch ; 6,000 feet altitude ; June, July. (489.) 
Plectritis' congesta, DC. Corolla bilabiate, the spur small and much 
shorter than the tube ; flowers capitate, or often verticillate. — Stems 4-2° 
high, with leaves 1-2' and corolla 3-4" long ; ovary pubescent, becoming 
glabrous. From Washington Territory to Southern California. Frequent in 
Nevada from the Washoe Mountains to Reese River ; Salt Lake Valley, 
Utah ; 5-5,500 feet altitude ; April-July. (490.) 
COMPOSITE. 
BY PROF. DANIEL C. EATON. 
EuPATORiUM occiDENTALE, Hook. Nearly smooth, or puberulent toward 
the top; stems about 1° high, slender, herbaceous from a somewhat woody 
base ; leaves mostly alternate, on slender petioles, cordate-ovate or somewhat 
deltoid, 1-W long, more or less toothed, the upper ones often narrower; co- 
rymbs rather simple, panicled ; heads 15-25-flowered ; involucral scales 
linear-lanceolate, subequal, puberulent ; corolla pale reddish-white ; achenia 
slender, glabrous or very sparingly glandular.— Oregon, California and Ne- 
iPLECTRITIS, LiXDL. Cnlyx-limb truncate, oiitiio, alinobt none. Corolla-tube gibbous auteri- 
orly, spurred at base; limb o-clcfr, more or less bilabiate. Stamens 3. Stigma capitate. Fruit with a 
^somewhat conacoous triangular fertile cell; the two empty ones open to the base, formin<r involute 
wmgs.-Aimiial glabrous herbs, with simple or sparingly branched stems; leaves entire, oblong or obo- 
yate-spatulate, sessile ; flowers rose-color, aggregated in den?e verticillate clusters or capitate ; bracts sub- 
ulate, verticillate and involucellate, united at base. 
