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river, Utah, and southward. A. carnea Greene Pitt. 3 343 isa 
robust form. 
to the writer, but is described as follows: Like A. tarbindal 
but bracts 5, ovate, alittle larger, very shortly acuminate; base 
of the outer flowers often 2-winged, of the inner flowers obovate: _ 
obconic, lobes obcordate, rose colored; stamens often 6; exterior 
fruits irregularly orbicular, very often 2- winged, delica tely retic- 
ulate-nerved, the inner fruits wingless and obovate and heise 3 
nerved. The irregular pepbel gue of wings is hardly a goo 
specific character, This may be a form of A. aa Mojave 
Desert, Calif., Parish 1882, ‘No. 1345. 
5. HERMIDIUM Wats. 
Stamens 5-7; flowers clustered on upper part of stem, rarely 
a single cluster lower down, about 1’ long; leaves large; genus of 
a single species, confined to the Juniper Zone of the Great Basia 
from the Sierras to western Utah. 
1. H. alipes Wats. Bot. King 5 296 t 32. A stout and 
very leathery plant, perfectly smooth, nearly erect; leaves on very 
short and thick petioles; heads about 6-flowered on stiort pedun- 

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cles; bracts ovate, heart-shaped, about 9” long, and acute; flow- — 
ers as long, slightly lobed, purple, as long as the stamens and 
style. This plant very closely resembles Mirabilis multiflora and 
differs from it but little, except in the bracts. 
6. MIRABILIS LL. 
Stamens usually 5, at least as long as the calyx, stigma cap- 
itate; flowers rose-colored to purple, rarely white. 
A. Coarse plants with large flowers. 
AB, Flowers with long and narrow tubes, clustered. 
1, M. Jalapa L. The common four o’clock is a smooth 
plant, with many-colored and short-stalked flowers; calyx tube 
