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long; calyx 3-4' long, tlie teeth 1' long, unequal, acuminate; base of the 
calyx subcapsular, persistent, narrow ; capsule nearly glabrous, globose, 
spinose, nodding. — Dr. Palmer's specimens occasionally show the folds of 
the sinuses also prolonged into short slender teeth. Southern California, 
(Xantus,) Northern Mexico, New Mexico, and Southern Utah. 
Page 319. SAURURACE^. 
Anemopsis^ Californica, Hook. DC. Prodr. 16. 1. 237. Stem sim- 
ple, erect, 3-15' high, puberulent or somewhat pilose, with a single broad 
clasping leaf in the middle, and an axillary branchlet reduced to 1 or more 
slenderly petioled leaves ; radical leaves oblong-oval, cordate at base, 2-6' 
long, 1-3' wide, about equaling or exceeding the petioles, glabrous, sub- 
glaucescent beneath, stomatiferous on ])oth sides, the younger ciliolate at 
base ; petioles sparingly pubescent, dilated at base and sheathing ; involu- 
cral leaves 6-15" long, white becoming brown, unequal, oblong; spadix 
6-12" long, (sometimes 20" in fruit;) bracts 2-3" long, white, unguicu- 
late with an orbicular lamina; filament equaling the anther. — From the 
Sacramento to Southern California and Mexico and eastward to the val- 
ley of the Rio Grande ; near St. George, Utah, in alkaline soil, (Palmer.) 
1 ANEMOPSIS, Hook. ( Jneniia, Nuttall.) Flowers perfect, crowded in a simple conical spadix, 
"whicli is surronnded by a 5-8-leaved persistent colored involucre, each flower subtended by a free col- 
ored bract. Stamens 6-8, free, epigynous ; filaments very short ; anthers oval, 2-celled, the cells lateral, 
adnate to a thick connective. Ovary solitary, deeply immersed in the rachis and united with it, 1- 
celled, with 3-4 parietal placenta alternate with the stigmas. Stigmas 3, or sometimes 4, spreading ; 
ovules 6-8 on each placenta, horizontal, in 2 rows, orthotropous. Capsule dehiscent by 3-4 -valves at the 
top, about 6-seeded ; seeds somewhat I'ounded, piinctulate. — A perennial aquatic stoloniferous herb, with 
a thick pun gently flavored root; leaves mostly radical, subcoriacoous, entire, pellucid-punctulate, pin- 
nately nerved, petioled. 
