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to which Tandon now reunites the greater part of his Ambrina, (C. am- 

 brosioides, C. anthelmintieum, &c.,) leaving in Roubieva only the orig- 

 inal species, recently illustrated in this Journal by Mr. Carey ; Blitwn, 

 to which the author now refers, as a section, his former genus, Agatho- 

 phyton (Chenopodium Bonus Henricus, L.); Monolepis, Schrad. (Bli- 

 turn chenopodioides, Null.) Atriplex, of which too many of the older 

 species are credited to the United States ; Obione, Geertn., of which nine 

 species are North American, including (apparently with sufficient rea- 

 son) the Pterochiton, Torr. ; Grayia, Hook, and Arn., of a single 

 species; Eurotia ; a doubtful Kochia ; a Corispennum (which Tandon 

 seems not to know as also a native of this country) ; Salicornia, in 

 which we have S. herbacea ? S. Peruviana (Cam. Fraser), and S. 



irgmica, to which last he evidently would refer S. mucronata, Bige* 

 low,di name unknown to him (and he has also dropped, apparently by 

 accident, the homonym of Lagasca, so that the point in which we are 

 interested is not elucidated) ; Arthocnemum (A. ? ambiguurn = Salicornia 

 ambigua, Michx.) being still kept distinct. Of the Spirolobex we have 

 in North America, Chenopodina, a genus newly founded for the Cheno- 

 podium maritimum, L., which was formerly referred to Suseda, besides 

 which species Tandon also gives us C. linearis (the Salsola linearis, 

 Ell, which however he thinks may be a variety of C. prostrata, which 

 a gain he thinks may not prove distinct from C. maritima), and 

 C. depressa (Salsola depressa, Pursh) ; of Shoberia, we have S. 

 calceoliformis (Chenopodium calceoliforme, Hook.), which is stated 

 also to be found " near New York ;" of Salsola, we have S. kali only. 

 The singular genus Sarcobatus of Nees, (the Fremontia of Torrey in 

 the Reports of Fremont's first and second journeys,) is enumerated 

 among the Genera exclusa, and said to be " dubice sedis." Probably 

 the author had not seen the figure of the fertile plant published by Dr. 

 Torrey. Acnida, following the aspect and inflorescence, is here refer- 

 red to the Amarantacese. 



The order Basellacece, familiar to us only by the Boussingaultia ba- 

 selloides, which is cultivated as an ornamental climbing plant, contains 

 six genera, entirely of tropical plants. 



The order Amarantacea includes forty-five genera, arranged under 

 three tribes. There are credited to this country, Celosia, one Cali- 

 fornian species; Amarantus about nine species; Mengea, Schauer, 

 a Californian species which has much the aspect of Amarantus Bhtum ; 

 °ne or more species of Euxolus, Raf., (Amarantus lividus, L. &c.) ; 

 Acnida, in which A. rusocarpa appears to be mixed up, in a manner 

 that requires much investigation to unravel, with Amaranthus tamansci- 

 n us, Nutt., which again, "though entirely distinct from Acnida itself, 

 nearly accords in character with Moquin-Tandon's section Montelia ; 

 ftnalia, a new genus, one section of which includes an Oregon species 

 (Halomocnemis occidental, Nutt. ined.) ; an obscure Pohjcnemum ; 

 bossypianlhus, Hook, two Texan species ; Iresine, two species ; Al- 

 ternanthera, one species ( Achyranthus repens, L.), besides the A. (Clad- 

 oth nx, NuU.,) lanuginosa, which Lindheimer and Wright find abund- 

 antly in Texas, and which will certainly stand as a separate genus, if a 

 striking peculiarity in respect to its fruit, observed by Dr. Torrey, 



Proves to be a normal condition. Telanthera ficoidea and polygonoides 



