CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY 127 
On Oct 22nd, I took another trip to the same place and 
found the plants in fall fruit, and all of them full of ripe fruit 
ani with the enlarged bracts concave and boat-slaped, and most- 
ly half an inch long, and covered by stalked glands exuding a 
gummy and bitter substance. Most of the heads had 2 opposed 
bracts making a seeming laterally compressed and ovate bloom 
with each bract so concave as to loosely enfold an akene, The 
stigmas were 2, or split to the base and deciduous. Occasionaily 
there is a long-stalked stigma below the group of sterile flowers as 
if another akene were about to develop, the staminte ones were al- 
ways present. The akenes were quite concave and with incurved 
edges und with the center of the convex back full of stalked glands 
though the rest of the truncate akene was smooth and shining. 
A few days after this I also went to Whitewater to study the ge- 
nus there, but found none in bloom because the season there is a 
month later though the elevation is the same. iss East wood 
was the first of the natural blunders to make fake species on the 
relative size of the bracts in D. Wetherilli and paniculata. forms of 
Brandegei; then Kennedy with D. Clarke from canescens; ther 
‘ake in Tidestrom’s flora of Utah and Nevada copies them. 
larged bract on any, and most of them with one mature seed tos 
‘ : . : ‘. d ones, 
floating bracts developed into hemispherical boat shaped 
about 1 inch long, nik oan I went on down to Palm Springs at 
sea level Dicoria was only just in bloom. 
Dec. 29th. I was ae at the Springs and found is a 
a)] in full fruif and normally ig high and paniculate but & 
stunted ones only 4-6 inches high. : 
Jan. Went to the Springs again and east “n peas 
and found Dicoria here and there fully develope ee ‘ty dahios 
ft. high with the habit of tumble-weeds, but the bracts’ Sul ttT 
Had Gray known that there are 2 opposed bracts be mig 
called the genus Didymocoris, a better name. 
