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BOTANY. 
exceeding the ovary. — California. East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, Jordan 
Valley and in the Wahsatch, Utah ; 5-7,500 feet altitude ; July, August. 
An early specimen, probably the same, was collected in Truckee Valley. 
Indiscriminate in its attachments, scarcely two of the numerous specimens 
growing on plants of the same genus. (988.) 
Var. (!) SQUAMIGERA, Eng.; I. c, p. 499. Flowers 2-2 long, on shorter 
pedicels, in rather crowded subglobose clusters ; calyx-lobes lanceolate, 
acuminate, equaling the open funnelform corolla-tube ; corolla-lobes lanceo- 
late, as long as the tube, at last spreading ; anthers oblong-linear, cordate at 
base, on very short filaments ; scales spatulate, fringed, shorter than the tube, 
incurved ; styles as long as the very acute ovary ; capsule apiculate, 1-seeded, 
enveloped below by the corolla-tube. — Collected by Remy in Southern Utah, 
near the Rio Virgen, on Suada. Intermediate between this species and C. 
siihindusa^ Dur. & Hilg. 
SOLANACE^. 
SoLANUM NIGEUM, L. Uuionville Valley, Nevada. Introduced. (939.) 
SoLANUM UMBELLiFERUM, Esch. DC. Proclr. 13. 93. Pubescent 
throughout ; stem shrubby, 6° high, angled, fistulous, branches pendent ; 
leaves petioled, ovate, acute, entire, 1-1^' long ; flowers in terminal 4- 
(sometimes 2-3-) flowered umbels, with a small urceolate entire involucre ; 
peduncles equal, elongated ; calyx urceolate, 5-clefl, with acute lobes ; corolla 
thrice longer than the calyx, pale-violet, 5-cleft, at fir§t subcampanulate, after- 
ward rotate ; filaments very short, broader at base ; anthers yellow, at first 
terminally, then laterally dehiscent ; style straight ; stigma capitate ; berry 
large, purple. — California ; varying much in the size and form ot the leaves 
and degree of pubescence. Collected by Anderson near Carson City, with 
the calyx-lobes rather obtuse. 
PnYSALis PUBESCENS, Willd. Florida to New England and west to New 
Me xico, Arkansas, the Upper Platte and Missouri, and Lake Winnipeg. 
Wahsatch Mountains, Utah ; 5,000 feet ahitude ; May. (^940.) 
Oryctes^ Nevadensis. Small, 2-4' high, scurfy and viscid-pubescent ; 
> ORYCTES. Calyx herbaceous, 5-cleft, not becoming inllatod. Corolla tubular, with a short 
tMliially r)-Toiitlit>(l scarcely spreading border. Stamens 5, equal, or 1 or '3 shorter, witli elongated filiform 
(ilamciitsi insertoil at the base of the tube; anthers rounded-cordate, the cells oblong, free below the 
insertion of the fihimcut. Style somewhat dihitcd upward ; stigma capitate, emarginate. Capsnle sessile 
globose, 2-celled, nunubranons. Seeds nuuicrnus, llattciicd. orbicular, margined, the testa reticulate- 
hilum lateral ; embryo straight, short, terete, at tlic base of tlic small albumen; cotyledons short.— A low 
annual, erect, branched; leaves petioled ; flowers pedicelled, in axillary umbels, 
