Spruyuea. !'< (HTII.AC A( K.K. •>'- 



bracts (or short li-avea with broad Hcarious baj»ci») .ipjx.Hitc the foliar It-av.* : iiftah. \er\ 

 variiil.lf, soiiRaiiiR-.-s uppareutly abMiit: wfil« vt-rv i*iihh>iIi uikI hhii.iiin. — I'^a.-. Am. Ari».i 

 xviii. 191 ; Howell, 1. f. Cla,/ii„„ii ,l„l,ol<>ma, (iniv , I. c-. 2M, in jjart ; .Muruuii, Cnl. Caiiail. 

 ri. i. 8.J. — <)re-,'oii, Willaiiu-ttu ViiUey, Uowtil, t'oluinl»iu Co., SuLtdorf; viciuitv ut Vic- 

 toria, Brit. Columbia, Marunn, iu>. 34. 



♦ ♦ * » * Leaf>-.stemiiu'(l opjx.sito-leaved Mpeiies (annual or nearly lo) : ]M-tmU •nuill. 

 white, unetjual. i..iinate at the biwu into a Kanioi>elalouj* lon.lla, which in itplit down one 

 side. — MunUa proper. 



M.* fontana, L. Small and a.'<eendin^ or jinM uinbent annual, or onb|M-rvnnial bv rtioting 

 from the node.s, especially in water or very wet j)laees, moderately ttucculent ; ntcniJi an inch 

 to a span or when tloatinj^ even a foot lonj:; : leaves ojipoidte, from olHtvute- to linear i>|>atu- 

 late, from a tenth to half an inch lon^ including the petiole-like base, in up|Mrni<wt pairo one 

 often re<lucetl to a scarious vestij^e or bract : inllorescence terminal or lateral Iim.iu h few- 

 several-tlowered : calyx and globo.se cajtsule barely a line long: corolla white, little ^nr|ulM- 

 sing the calyx. — Spec. i. 87; ]"1. Dan. t. 1.31, l'J2C. Two forms as to seeds, not cbarly 

 distinguishable otherwise, viz.: 1. Seeds not shining, thickly muriculate in cIom- lines: 

 J/, minor, Gmel. l-l. Had. i. Wl. 2. Seeds more or le.ss shining, are«ilate-tul«'nMilate. the 



tubercules being in various degrees flattened and si »thed : M. rinilan's, (Jmel. 1. c M'J, & 



M. Idiiijirosperma, Cham. Linn;ea, vi. 505, t. 7, f. 2, seed. — Wet places and running w:tt4-r, 

 Newfoundland, Labrador ((ireenlaud). New Brunswick, Lower Canada, and on islands near 

 Mt. Desert, Maine, (Jreat Cranberry Isle, /.'</»</, (ireat Duck I.sland, lixlfuld; to Alaskan 

 Islands and Brit. Columbia, the smoother-.seeded form ; al.so Oregon ami California. ni>»stly 

 the rough-seeded or typical species. From the latter form the ini|K'rfectly chanu-terizcd 

 Vhtytonhi JIullii, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xxii. 28.3 {('. C/i(tmiiisoiii's, var. tmerrima, (Jray, 

 1. c. viii. 378, and probably Moutia Ilallii, Greene, Fl. Francis. 180), is not to \hs distioguishiil 

 even by coroUar characters. (Most cool aud temperate parts of the world.) 



8. SPRAGUEA, Torr. (Isaac Sprague, iiiiiiiit;ible hoUniical ilrau-rlitsinaii, 

 illustrator of this and of very many other genera, among tlu-m tho.st- of the 

 Genera Am. Bor. Or. Illu.strata. ) — PI. Frem. in Smiths. Contrih. vi. 4, t. 1. ic 

 Bot. Mex. Bound. 37; Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 5143. — Single genuine B|K-cieB, 

 almost too near the following genus, hut may be retained. 



S. umbellata, Tour. 1. c. Winter-annual or biennial with a tap-root, or p<-nnnial. gla- 

 brous, with fleshy spatulate leaves, either all rosulate-clustered at the crown antl sc:i|h' (2 to 

 8 inches high) naked or nearly so, or with few to several similar but smaller waHen-d 

 cauline leaves: inflorescence usually uuiliellate-cymoso, at first cajiitate glomerate, at length 

 5-1.3-radiate (usually from a short scarious involucre) into imbricately densely fli.wen-«| 

 simple or forking scorpioid cyme-branches, or with these scjittered ; flowers sub.M-.Nsile, 

 some .scarious bracteate : scarious .sep:ils dull white or rose-tinged, in age 3 to 5 lines in 

 diameter, in anthesis equalling the ro.se or i.urjde or whitish (ephemeral but man-es«ent) 

 petals: .stamens two opposite petals and the third .alternnte: the.se and the style ex.M-rtcl. — 

 S. panicnlata, Kellogg.> IVoc. Calif. Acad. Sci. ii. 187. f. 50; Curnm. Bull. Calif. Aci.l .<. i. 

 i. 132, also N. umUlliilti, var. moutunn, M. K. Jones. Bull. Torr. Club, ix. 31, are mere U>nun. 

 the latter .sometimes with alternate flowering branches l.iwdown on thes.ape. Cnh.i.todum 

 umbdiiitum & C. pnniruldtum, Green.', Bull. T..rr.Club, xiii. 144 (|«-tals marce.H<-.-nt-.-..nni»cnl 

 around ovarv and lower part of exserted style, not carried up on enlarging .apsnlel. C. n„. 

 dum, (ireene, I'ittonia. i. 64-— Sierra Nev.-nla and Ciu^cade .Mountains, from the V.Diemite 

 to borders of Brit. Cdumbia, an<l Nevaila to N. W. Wyoming ; in alpine luid suUlpinB 

 stations (juasi-iK-reniiiiil, but flowering only once ; on saml-wjuihes of streams at lower le»eU 



1 Tlie suppose.] difTcrence in the fonn of the see.ls, .idduciNl by California l>ot«ni»tji for the *e\<%n- 

 tion of this species from N. iimMlata, rests upon a niis.ipprehi-nsion, as the aeedn of the typical A mm- 

 bfl/'iln are .pnte as reiiifonn as those of " N. iHiuinilata." » . 



2 A.ldsyn. S. nuda, Howell, Erythen. i. :«». iCali/ptridium HumafpermHm , Orvenc, Errthea. ill. 

 63, chiefly distinguished by its " l-seetletl" capsules. 



