4(j4 LENNUxVCE.li;. Ntwierrya. 



coliei'ing, leaving a central cell (if correctly understood). Inlloresceuce capitate. — 

 A binglo ini[)i'rrcctly kiunvn apucies. 



1. N. COngesta, 'I'urr. (ilal)n)us, browniah : simple stems a span liigli, clothed 

 with hti'si'ly iiiiltrii'ulcd t»val or ohh)Mg and ohacurely oroso Bcaksa ; the upii(«rmust 

 running largo lirarla to the cupitato-crowilud llowers. — Ana. Lye. Kuw York, viii. 

 55 ; lienth. & llook. (Jisn. PI. ii. GOG. Ileinitomes com/entum, Gray in Pacif. ]{. 

 Kep. vi. 81, t. 12 : descrii)tion and liguro faulty, and name inapplicable, therefore 

 changed. 



Soutliern part of Oregon, upper part of Des Chutes Valley, Newherri/. Near California, and 

 probably occurring within its limits. It is very desirable to rediscover this little-kaowu phmt. 



OiiDEii LV. LENNOACE^. 



Root-parasitic fleshy herbs, scaly, destitute of green herbage, with the aspect of 

 Muuutropem and Orobaiichacett, but nearer the former ; remarkable for having the 

 ])arts of the llower almost always more tlian five and the cells of the ovary at least 

 doubled, these onc-ovuleil, the stamens adnato \\\) to the very throat of the tubular 

 corolla (anthers on very slu)rt lilaments, 2-celled and opening lengtiiwise), ami the 

 fruit drupaceous. — Comprises three genera and not more than four species, of 

 Mexico and California. — Torr. in Ann. Lye. New York, viii. 51; Solms-Laubach in 

 Abhandl. Nat. Halle, xi., & DC. Proth-. xvii. 37 ; lienth. & Hook. Gen. PI. ii. 621. 



1 . Pholisma. Flowers spicato. Sepals and short lobes of the corolla 6, rarely 5 : stamens aa 

 many in a siii;,'li) series. 



2. Ammobroma. Flowers covering the upper surface of a dilated concave receptacle. Sepals 

 about 10, lililorm and plumose. Lobes of the corolla and stamens 6 to 10. 



Lknnoa, Llav. k Lex. (Corollnphyllum., II BK.), has the parts of tlie flower in eight, and the 

 stamens in two series below the throat of the curved corolla. 



1. PHOLISMA, Nutt. 



Calyx of G (or rarely 5) linear se2)aLs, shorter than tiie corolla, naked. Corolla 

 tubular, obscurely fiinnelform, withering-persistent; the lobes as many as the sei)al3, 

 short and broad, undulate and plaited-imbricated in the bud. Stamens as many as 

 the lobes of the corolla and alternate with them, borne in the throat in a single 

 rank. Ovary and drii[)aceous ('}) fruit 12 - 20-celled, depressed-globose. Style 

 long : stigma G- 10-crenate-lobed. — A single species. 



1. P. arenarium, Nutt. Brownish fleshy herb, of simple sterns, a span high, 

 puberulent, thick, clothed with small erect scales : spike at first capitate, at length 

 oblong, dense : llowers sessile, rather longer than the linear bracts (about 4 lines 

 long), purplish.— Hook. Ic. PI. t. G2G. 



Sandy soil and at the base of hills, near Monterey and San Diego, Dougliis, Nultall, &c. Paia- 

 sitic on the roots of oaks? 



2. AMMOBROMA, Torr. 

 Calyx of mostly 10 lililorm ijlumo.so-hairy sepals, ecpialling the usually G-lobed 

 corolla ; this and the stamens and pistil nearly as in Pholisma. 



1. A. Sonorae, Torr. lioot of thick tortuous fibres : stems simple, elongated, 

 beset with lanceolate acute mostly api)ressed scales, the summit dilated into a fun- 

 nelform receptacle, with recurved or sju'eading margins ; the whole cavity densely 

 lined with .short-pedicelled llowers : corolla about 4 lines long : ovary about 20-celled. 

 — Ann. Lye. New York, viii. 51, t. 1. 



