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divaricate; pedicels rigid, sometimes racemose-secmid, soon deflexcd, very 
short ; involucre short-campanulate or hemispherical, about 1" long, exceed- 
ing the pedicels, many-flowered ; bractlets bearded-cihate, the outer broad- 
linear, the inner filiform-spatulate ; calyx white or yellow, glabrous, very 
obtuse at base, the outer segments orbicular, cordate at base, the inner 
obovate, retuse, many times smaller; beak of the achenium more or 
less scabrous. — With much the habit of the Virgata section, which it ap 
preaches. Southeastern California, Southern Arizona, and Southern Utah, 
(Palmer, 1870.) Virginia Mountains, Western Nevada, and in the Wah- 
satch at the mouth of American Fork Canon ; 5-6,000 feet altitude ; 
August. (1,033.) 
Eriogonum nutans, T. & G. ; /. c, p. 181. Annunl, low (2-4') and 
somewhat slender; leaves all radical, ^' in diaincici-, round, floccose-woolly, 
on long or short petioles ; panicle loose and s])reading, rather simple, glab- 
rous ; pedicels nodding, 2-3" long, very minutely viscous-glandular as well as 
the broadly campanulatc rather few-flowered (1" long) involucre ; bractlets 
filiform, very thickly glandular ; calyx bright rose-color, becoming 1-2" long, 
very obtuse at base, outer segments broad-oval, eniargiuate and almost ob- 
cordate, the inner not half as large and a Httle shorter, oblong, retuse, at 
length folded; beak of the achenium more or less scabrous. — Mud Lake 
Valley, 20 miles north of Pyramid Lake, (Beckwith.) Unionvillc Valley 
and foot-hills of the Pah-Ute range, Nevada; 5,000 feet altitude; June. 
Plate XXXIIL Fig. L A plant; natural size. Fig. 2. Anode, with bracts, 
involucre and flowers. Fig. 3. A flower, expanded. Fig. 4. The nearly ma- 
ture achenium; all enlarged four diameters. (1,034.) 
Eeiogonum Watsonii, T. & G. ; I. c, 182. Annual, slender, 0-12' 
high ; leaves as in the last, usually subcordatc ; panicle glabrous, decoinponiid, 
very spreading and open, loosely many-flowered ; pedicels i,daii(ll('ss, spread- 
ing or deflexcd, 2-3 times or sometimes but litllo loiiircr llian llic narrow- or 
clavate-campanulate scarcely many-flowrnd Miiooth (1' long) involucre; 
bractlets setaceous, sparingly glandular-barbcllalo ; calyx very dabrous, white 
or pinkish, obtuse at base, the segments similar, oval, a little refuse, tlir inner 
ones slightly smaller ; beak of the achenium more or less scabrous.— Tlx ■ vory 
eflfuse panicle is broader than its height, the pedicels sometimes very mi- 
nutely and obscurely glandular, the calyx I" long, narrower than in the last 
but less so at base than the following. First found by Dr. Torrey in the West 
