206 Plants collected during a journey 



Desc. Stem a little branched at the base, creeping. Leaves about hal£ 

 an inch long, rather crowded, oblong-lanceolate, obscurely 3-nerved, 

 smooth, except on the margin, which is glandularly serrate under a lens. 

 Cyme corymbose, the branches spreading, or reflexed. Flowers white ? 

 decandrous ? Segments of the calyx lanceolate. Petals 7, lanceolate, 

 acute. Stamens — . 



Hab. Near the Rocky Mountains. 



173. S. Rhodiola, De Cand. pi. gras. t. 143. Ejus, 

 ayn. fl. gall. p. 521. Rhodiola rosea, Lin. Willd. sp. pi. 

 iv. p. 807. Eng. lot. t. 508. On the Rocky Mountains. 



Obs. The specimens of this plant collected by Dr. James, 

 differ from the common variety of Europe, in the leaves being 

 almost entire. Professor Hooker informs me that he possesses 

 the same variety, from Greenland. Captain Sabine collected 

 it at the North Cape. It has not before been recorded as a 

 native of the continent of America. 



PARONYCHIA. 



174. Paronychia dichotoma, Nutt. gen. i. p. 159. ? On 

 the Arkansa I 



Obs. Leaves subulate j stipules bifid and entire ; cyme 

 crowded ; segments of the calyx mucronate. 



MELIACEjE. 



175. Melia Azedarach, L. Willd. sp. pi. ii. p. 558. 

 On the Canadian. Native. 



UMBELLIFERA. 



176. Ferula FffiNicuLACEA, Nutt. gen. i. p. 1S3. Sand- 

 stone hills in the Prairies of Grand River. 



177. Eryngium diffusum, caule dichotomo-ramoso, dif- 

 fuso ; foliis omnibus digitato-palmatis, laciniis oblongis, in- 

 ciso-serratis, spinosis; capitulis subglobosis; foliolis involucri 

 4-6, trifidis, inciso-serratis, capitulo longioribus ; ovariis 

 squamulosis. 



