ee BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 
Contributions to the Botany of North America, XII By Asa Gray. From Proce. 
Am. Acad. xx. 257-310. eae: January 26, ee 
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the gynobase, and of the extent of their attachment to i 4 
maze ve characters ill-understood and alectdanetined Dr. Gray has eliminate 
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with depressed back surrounded by a wing or margin which i is re revolts 3m 
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nana with vars, £ E. nana, rae and O, Howardi ( (has m Howardi, ee 
Reaitihia. Wack. & 
-and the nutlets are naked and convex on the a This includes the greater 
number of species formerly marshalled under Eritr richium, such as belonged to 
the old sections Krynitzkia, Eueritrichium Most ea, and Antiphytm. The 
number of necessar changes in nomenclature are too many to be e —— 
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und the rest = it is K. leivearpa, F. é Mu aff nis, n. sp., K. Watsoni, be “sp. K: 
Fendleri, n. sp., which does very well for one species. To the genus are added 
eight new pe Bag there being 46 in all. 
Plagi ‘obothry ys, Fisch. & Meyer, has the nutlets attached by a By portio on 
of the ventral face, by means of a sort of carun cle which com nik ve ith ie 
seed, leaving an excavation on the gynobase. This includes aha whi ' 
appeared under Eritrichium 3 Plagiobothrys, and al Echidiocarya yeti its 
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original species, E.Arizonica. The typical species, P. rufescens, has at last na 
up in N orth America, — been found in California. The genus numbers 
species. 
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suggested by an examination of the pa pe drs inns made y Maj “Joh nie 
Conte to ry deat his memoir upon this genus, The draw tee are now int 
possession of Mr. I. artindale, h- 
In the third part are described six new one all from that prolific sout 
west ofours. Two of them,we are glad tosee, commemorate our very good frien from a 
Dr. Rothrock and Mr. Pringle. The genera are Veatehia ( Anscerdiece ae cea?) 
Lower California, Micoveret by Dr. J. A. Veatch; Lyonothamnus (Rosace® 
from Sta. Catalina Island, California, discovered by Wm.S ee enw,’ 
tum (Acanthacee), fr ora, Mexico, discovered by C Ble; ? reg 
hamnus (Phyto acee), fr ora, Mexico, discovered by ©. G. Pring a 
very interesting addition to a small t; Himantostemma (Asclepiadacé® 
fr nora, ico, discovered y C. G. Pringle; and kia (Ase 
dacee), from S. Arizona collec Lemmon and 
art four is mostly devoted to the description of new Gamopetal x, “ie 
‘imong which must be mentioned a new species of Schweinitzia, from Floria% — 
discovered by Miss Mary (. steynolds, and bearing her name. "Su ha 
tion t ught to be monotypic,and very peculiar at Non 
a ve a sites 5 The sehen (S. odorata) ranges from Maryland to : 
