236 Plants collected during a journey 



Obs. Our plant agrees with specimens collected by Dr. 

 Richardson in Arctic America, but the leaves in both are 

 pubescent. Stems, many from the same root, smooth, a span 

 high; fructiferous pedicels 1-2 inches long, capillary; calyx 

 angular ; teeth subulate. 



360. Dodecatheon Meadia, L. Pursk fl. i. p. 136. 

 Within the Rocky Mountains. 



361. Lysimachia ciliata, L. Pursh fl. 1. c. With the 

 preceding. 



362. Samolus Valerandi, L. Pursh fl. i. p. 158. On 

 the Canadian. 



363. S. ebracteatus, Kunth syn. ii. p. 23. Saline 

 soils near the base of the Rocky Mountains. 



Desc. Root perennial. Stem short, smooth, divided at the base, robust. 

 Leaves obovate, two inches long, somewhat flesh)', obtuse, attenuate at 

 base. Racemes very long, (6-8 inches) many-flowered, somewhat pubes- 

 cent under a lens. Pedicels 1-flowered, three-fourths of an inch long, 

 filiform, without bracts! Calyx hemispherical, half superior, with ten ele- 

 vated nerves; teeth 5, acute, sinuses obtuse. Corolla hypocrateriform, 

 twice as long as the calyx, white, 5-lobed ; the lobes rounded. Stamens 

 5 ; filaments inserted into the corolla opposite its segments ; anthers oblong, 

 incumbent. Germen roundish, smooth, 5-grooved above; style short, 

 straight ; stigma small, indistinctly 3-lobed. Capsule depressed-globose, 

 enclosed in the persistent calyx, 1 -celled, splitting at the summit into 5 

 acute teeth ; receptacle unconnected, obscurely 5-angled. Seeds nume- 

 rous, angular, papillose. 



Obs. Capsules three times as large as in S. Valerandi. I 

 have not had an opportunity of consulting the figure in the 

 Nov. gen. et spec. plan. (ii. t. 129.) quoted by Kunth, but 

 his description applies very well to our plant. 



PLANTAGINEtE. 



364. Plantago gnaphaloides, Nutt. gen. i. p. 100. 

 P. Lagopus, Pursh fl. i. p. 99. non Lin. On the Platte. 



Obs. Scape, when in fruit, twice as long as the leaves ; 

 spike at first oblong; cells of the capsules 1-seeded. 



