612 I'LANTAGINACE.E. J'lanluyo. 



§ 3. Flowers perfect (and perhaps of two kinds) : stamens 2. 

 (J. P. Bigelovii, ( ; ray. Annual, small and slender, a span or less in height, 

 slightly liiibiile : leaves linear, obtuse, entire, a line or two wiile, the bntader ones 

 obscurely 3-nerveil, shorter than the scape: spike oblong or linear, densely few - 

 nuiny-llowered : bracts carinate, about the length of the calyx : lobes of tho corolla 

 ovate, remaining open : stamens ami style a little exserted : capsule ovoid-oblong, 

 somewhat exceeding the calyx, 2-celled, 4-seeded : seeds oblong, not hollowed on 

 the face. — Pacif. li. iJup. iv. 117, 



Salt-inarslies, San Palilo Iky, at Beiiicia ami Vallejo, Bigelow, E. L. Greene. Ro-descri»)ed 

 from good specimens collected Ly Mr. (Iiccne. Flowers twice tho size of tliose of tlie eastern 

 P. piisilla, which extends westward to Utah, and was mistaken for tins in tlio Hotany of King's 

 Expedition. ° 



P. Eiuoi'ODA, Ton., of tlio Rocky Mountains, wliich reaches Northeastern Nevada, also 

 P. MACUOCAUI'A, Cham, k Schlecht., of the northern Pacific coast, are the only other Western 

 species ; both with thickish spikes and rather large flowers and capsules. 



