198 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. [ August, 
the upper generally tipped with a short hyaline denticulate 
and often broken point; 3-4 mm. long, } mm. broad ; basilar 
cells rectangular, 3-4 times longer than broad, those of the 
angles sometimes rather soft and yellowish, but not forming 
distinct auricles, the upper elongated, straight, linear; costa 
broad, about + the width of leaf-base, of 4-5 strata of cells, — 
2-3 inferior of small thick-walled cells, one median of large 
thin-walled cells, and one superior of small thin-walled cells, 
this often incomplete, and then occupying only the middle 
of the costa. Male flowers small, gemmiform, placed near 
the top of the stems; bracts ovate, concave, rather suddenly 
acuminate, thin-nerved; antheridia rather numerous, with 
some paraphyses. Female flowers and capsule unknown. 
_ Kansas: Saline County, on sandy ground, where it was 
discovered by the late Foseph Henry. 
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in wide yellowish tufts. 
Stems prostrate and a little naked below; branches erech 
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linear, very sinuous, the lower most elongated, the upper an 
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chetial leaves shortly piliferous, the inner muticouss ° z 
ie oy see : e large: . 
g,1 mm. broad; lid long-beaked ; annulyt fora 
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olen unequal, nodulose and faintly papillose legs; Fopalate 
Oregon: on rockyhill-sides. (7%. Howell.) 
