202 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. | August, 
Camptothecium Amesiw.—Widely cespitose, bright yellow- 
ish-green. Stems prostrate, creeping, radiculose, pinnately 
ramulose, 8-12 cm. long; branchlets crowded, short, equal, 
erect, a little curved, 5-1o mm. long. Stem-leaves broadly 
triangular, narrowly long-acuminate. Branch-leaves ovate- 
lanceolate, shortly acuminate, carinate, plicate, generally 
plane on one side and revolute on the other, slightly serru- 
late at the apex, 14 mm. long, } mm. broad; costa vanishing 
in the acumen; cells of the areolation linear, attenuated, 
10-15 times longer than broad, the upper shorter, the alar 
numerous, quadrate or subrectangular. Inner perichetial 
beculate ; segments split their whole length; cilia long. 
California: Auburn, mixed with Aypuum pinnatyidum 
enus Camptothecium and to pl it in Homalothecium 
CH. Nevadense Ren. & Cavd.): oe 
ters tee ANATION OF PLATES xim-xx.—All figures enlarged 80 diame- 
ora oy copied by — of Nachet’s camera ee i sd teal 
; itegeraldi.—a, entire plant; stem leav\r” 
go vowing page d, areolation of the ao of ie soe ig pericheetial leafs 
. at Lia % same; h, portion of the peristome. 
areolation of the Pee rici—a a, leaves; b, point of 
same : 
f same; % 
d d, transverse section; e, male flowers; f 
pract of 
¢ “ghar he - itrium Oreganum.—a, entire plant; b> bare 
can de me He d, areolation of the upper part; ¢@, capsule, a 
lum ; J, capsule with the lid; g, portion of the peristom® 
