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stem), abruptly clavate-eularged and close-jointed ; the joints 

 emitting from beneatli very coarse cylindrical tibrous roots. 

 This singular species is of peculiar habitat, being apparently 



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along the margins of eddies and in shallow waters of the 

 shaded mountain streamlets. It is almost an aquatic ; and 

 we have no other species which is so. The stems are tall and 

 strictly erect, and the branched and cespitose slender and 

 abruptly clavate rhizomes furnish a most incontrovertible 

 specific character. 



The Genus Lythrum in Californix\ 



In the Botany of the State Survey, the only work we have 

 claiming to set forth the botany of the entire State, we are 

 creditecf with one species of Lythrum. I have long recognized 

 the presence with us of three very good ones ; and the recent 

 appearance in my herbarium of a fourth, which the first 

 glance reveals as a new one, has led to a critical study of all 

 the specimens. The result may be indicated as follows : 



* Annual. 



1. L. Hi-ssoriFOLiA, Linn. Sp. PI- 447. This widely dis- 

 seminated, but small, homely and obscurely lurking annual 

 Avas collected by the writer near Calistoga, Napa Co., as long 

 ago as the year 1874. We neither saw nor heard anything 

 UK^re of it as a Califoruian plant until 1888, when we obtained 

 it again at Calistoga, and also iu the county of Sonoma, 

 adjoining Napa, but whether near Santa Eosa or Petaluma 

 the tickets do not show, and our memory does not warrant 



definite statement about this second Pacific coast 



locality. But the plant is here, though doubtless as else- 

 where both in Europe and America, something of a rarity. 



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