Mr. Bentham on the Eriogonese, a Tribe of the Order Polygonacese. 407 



Caules stricti, pli'is miniisve tomentosi, elati. Folia infeiiora csespitosa, 3 — 4- 

 pollicaria, supn\ moUit^r villosa, superiora leinota, solitaria vel subfasci- 

 culata, ramorum floralium minuta, bracteseformia. Rami paniculce et pe- 

 dicelli rigida. Bractew subulatse, glabriusculae. Ovarium villosissimum. 

 Stamina ferh glabra. 

 Nuttall's specimens are much more woolly, and the panicle much larger 



than in Drummond's ; but both appear to belong to the same species. 



3. E. TOMENTOSUM {Mick. Fl. Bor. Amer. i. 246. t. 24.), foliis ad basin caulis 

 approximatis spathulato-obovatis oblongisve subti'is lanatis, ramis flori- 

 feris 2 — 3-chotom^ ramosis lanatis ternatlm verticillathnve foliosis, invo- 

 lucris solitariis sessilibus campanulatis rufo-lanatis laxfe multifloris, peri- 

 anthiis ext^s lanatis. 

 Carolina and Georgia. Michaux, Fraser. (v. s.) 



Species habitu et inflorescentia distinctissima. Lana in foliorum pagina in- 

 feriore ramis involucris perianthiisque densa, S8epii\s rufescens. Folia 

 ramorum floralium ovata, obovata vel oblonga. Involucra alia in dicho- 

 tomiis vel secus ramos sessilia, alia terminalia, subcyathiformia. Brac- 

 teolae setacese, densfe plumosse. Perianthia longiusculfe exserta, laciniis 

 anterioribus longioribus. Filamenta basi et ovarium apice pilosa. Flore.s 

 (sec. Mich.) candicantes. 



§ 3. Umbellata. Folia omnia ex.stipidata. Genitalia pilosa, Jilament a prope 

 basin, ovarium apicem versus. Inflorescentia umbellata, pedunculo (siepe 

 scapiformi) apice umhellam simpUcem vel duplicem pluri-radiatam, non- 

 mmquam in capitulum globosum contractain vel ad involucrum solitarium 

 reductam, gerente. 



4. E. sPHiEROCEPHALUM (Dougl. MSS.), caulc ramoso folioso, foliis fasciculatis 

 verticillatisve oblongis basi angulatis subtus albo-lanatis, peduncnlis sub- 

 simplicibus, involucro subsolitario late campanidato tomentoso niultifloro, 

 perianthiis exti^s sericeo-pilosis. 

 Columbia river. Douglas, (v. s.) 



Fruticulus irregulariter ramosus. Folia ad ramificationes seepiiis fasciculata, 

 petiolis basi dilatatis imbricatis, in ramis verticillata vel pauca remota 



