CATALOGUE. 
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Nama^ demissa, Gray. Proc. A??ier. Acad. 8. 283. Animal, hirsute, 
brandies spreading from the slender root, decumbent, 2-6' long; leaves 
spatulate-linear, i-V long, attenuate to a narrow base ; flowers subsessile, 
the lower solitary in the forks, the upper axillary ; sepals narrow-linear, 
2 3'' long; corolla 3" long, light-purple; capsule short-oblong, li" long or 
less; seeds 10-12 in each cell, nearly J" in length, oval, obscurely rugose- 
pitted. — Washington Territory, (Lyall;) Western Nevada, (Frdmont, An- 
derson, Torrey.) Found on the shore of Stansbury Island in Salt Lake ; 
June. Distinguished from N. hisjyida by the shorter fewer-seeded cajisulc 
and nearly twice longer seeds. The flowers on the present specimens arc 
also always solitary. (888.) 
POLEMONIACEiE.^ 
Phlox canescens, T. & G. Gray's Revis. Folenion., Froc. Amer. Acad. 
8. 253. Dwarf and matted ceespitose, with a woody perennial mucli-l^i aiK-hed 
base which is usually covered with the dead leaves of previous seasons, the 
branchlets densely leafy up to the solitary sessile flowers, woolly-cancsccnt ; 
leaves 3-4'' long, evergreen, rigid, subulate and more or less acerose, scari- 
ous-connate at base, usually strongly revolute upon the margin, soon spread- 
ing or somewhat squarrose-recurved from the appressed base ; tube oi' the 
white corolla more or less (usually a half) exceeding the calyx, the obovate 
lobes entire or emarginate, 3-4" long ; ovules solitary. — From the Rocky 
Mountains of Colorado to New Mexico and west to the Sierras. On the 
Trinity and West Humboldt Mountains and on a ridge in Monifor YnWry, 
Nevada ; 5-7,000 feet altitude ; May-J uly, and in bloom in November. Also 
found in the Cedar Mountains, west of Salt Lake, by Stansbury, and in tlie 
Wahsatch by Mrs. Carrington. (889.) 
Phlox c^espitosa, Nutt. Gratj, I c, p. 253. Of like liabii with the 
last ; densely or rather loosely ca^spitosc, the more rigid lc;ivcs liiicn-siilMiIah; 
or oblong-linear, 4-G" long, crowded and often densely so, liispid- or loughish- 
JNAilA L Calyx 5-sopaltMl, pn>istnit. Corolla tubuliir-fninwlform. Stamens HnlMncltulod. 
Style 9, with 'rather oUnso sti-mas. Ca].>ul,^ --r .H..l, l,„„lH i,l:,l. th- M ptn.n l- arini, t « !a>ninar 
placent* projecting into each cell from the axis, wl.i. h arc at ti.-t n,„i<-.l, at l.M,-tl. (iv...-r..nv anuMal 
branching herhs, or perennial or some^vhat woody at base, variously pnlM - .-nt, w;t!.^alt. inal.> r.r rar-Iy 
opposite entire leaves, an<l axillarv and terminal llowers. Cninsv. /" . /' ' -I'-'- 
= The determinations under tins order were made by Dr. A^a (inv, • ..nplmn^ an.nlm.-.st 
wholly drawn from his re< ent -lievision of the North American Foleiiuu.iac , ai.d from other notes 
obligingly furnished by him. 
