126 CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 
drawn as they are in nature but the anthers are spread out as they 
become after anthesis, but in flower the tips cohere and the body 
of each bulges out, forming with the rest an oval mass till they 
discharge, The filament tube is 4 simple hyaline, 5-toothed co- 
rolla-like cylinder within the main obconic and atipitate corvlla 
of the staminate flower. The fertile flowers are 3 and corolia ab- 
sent, consisting of a naked ovary with the 2 linear stigmas, sub- 
tended by a floating and accrescent glutinous bract which is de- 
ciduous and carries the seed away with it. These 3 bracts are in- 
conspicuous and small at first, the outer one appearing as a mere 
appressed scale, but beneath it is the first ovary which early be- 
comes a seed and protrudes some till its bract developes and em- 
braces it. At first the bracts are flat, oval and small, but in a few 
weeks become boat-shaped by the incurving edges and an inch 
long as in my specimens of Brandegei, The type of the genus 
was Collected very late in the year, after frost, and this is why 
the floating bracts are so well developed, The type of Brandegei 
was got early in the fall before the last two bracts had emerged. 
Tae genus is annual, with the habit of Ambrosia and Franseria, 
and tie rough pubescence,the onter bracts are explanate when 
mature, and oblong-linear and rather truncate at tip and 4-6 in 
uumber. Then come the 3 bracts with the fertile flowers, on the 
receptacle, and then the cluster of sterile flowers with the yellow 
ant ber ball. Ignorance of the late blooming was the cause of th e 
remark of T, & G, ” not since found’, and of my failing to get it 
for 40 years, and of the blundersof Miss Eastwood, Kearney, and 
Blake in making synonyms. There are but 2 valid species, Bran- 
_degei and canescens, based on the leaves, narrow and broad. The 
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haunting for 40 years”. I knew it instantly and gathered it. No 
plants could be expected alive at thatseason. This explained my 
finding the cotyledonal leaves at Moab carlier, and led me to the- 
orize about missing it before. 
On Oct.1 st. 1933 I went to Mt. Pisgah an extinct voleanoin 
the Mojave region near Ludlow, and found near Do dge station 10 
miles east of Barstow large numbers of Dicoriain full bloom along 
the way, and none had a suspicion of an enlarged bract, and | got 
specimens of it. There were ripe single seeds in each flowerhead. 
