380 APPENDIX. 



As I am conscious of my incompetency to establish new 

 species from specimens, wiiich, though generally well pre- 

 served, are mostly imperfect, rarely furnishing both flower 

 and fruit together, unassisted by that acquaintance from 

 nature which Mr. Nuttall possesses, I have to remark that 

 the names I have ventured to designate such by, as I could 

 not find described in the books, should be considered, to- 

 gether with the descriptions I have subjoined, nothing 

 more than an attempt to point out what has been met with 

 by the gentlemen of the present expedition, leaving the 

 confirmation of the new species proposed to future inves- 

 tigation and abler hands. 



L CLASS MONANDRIA. 



1. Salicornia herbacea, Willd. Sp. PL 



Collected in the vicinity of a salt spring on the banks of 

 Red river of Lake Winnepeek, about the latitude of 49 de- 

 grees. The only inland locality of this saline plant besides 

 the present, is the salt springs of Onondago, in the state of 

 New York. (Mr. Nuttall.) 



IL CLASS DIANDRIA. 



2. Veronica ^;erf^n«cr, Fl. Dan, Tab. 407. 

 Common throughout the United States as far south as the 



mouth of the Mississippi. (Nuttall.) 



in. CLASS TRIANDRLY. 



3. Calymenia nyctaginea, Nutt. Gen. I. p. 2G. 

 Allionia nyctaginea, Mx. Fl. Am. p. 100. (Nuttall.) 



