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cillis 6—-9-floris ; staminibus 6; carpellis 8-10 uniovulatis basi gibbosis abrupte longirostratis. 
(Tab. XXI. In water, near Tone Valley, California ; May, (in flower and fruit.) Tuber sub- 
globose. Leaves all radical, on elongated petioles; the lamina 2-3 inches long, and often 
nearly an inch wide. On young plants the leaves are much smaller, and sometimes not more 
than 2-4 lines wide. Scapes 12-18 inches high, usually several from one root; whorls (3-4) 
distant ; the longer pedicels 1-2 inches in length. Flowers nearly twice as engi asin A, 
Pishiape, white. Sepals oblong, obtuse. Stamens shorter than the sepals; anthers oblong ; 
filaments subulate from a somewhat dilated base. Ovaries usually 8-9, connected at the base, 
with a tap:ring straight style; each with a solitary ascending anatropous ovule arising from 
near the base of the cell. Carpels 4-5 lines long, much compressed, abruptly narrowed to a 
long rigid beak, always one-seeded. This species greatly resembles Damasonium stellatum, 
Dalech, of Europe, but that differs in the entire petals, and in the carpels being almost uni- 
formly six, with the beak gradually narrowed from a broad base. It is a little remarkable to 
find a representative of the genus or subgenus Damasonium in the Western Hemisphere. 
Ecutnoporus rostratus, Hngelm.in Gray, Man. Bot. ed. 2, p. 439. Alisma rostrata ; Nutt. in 
Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. (n. ser.) 5, p. 159. On Mohave creek, California. The seeds of this 
plant are collected by the Mohave Indians, and used as food. The species is widely diffused. 
We have it from Key West, Florida, (Mr. Blodgett); Georgia, (Dr. Leavenworth) ; St. Louis, 
(Dr. Engelmann) ; and Pokies: (Drummond, Coll. 2, No. 432); the last a form with narrower 
leaves, which are not cordate at the. base. 
Saarrrarta stmpLex, Pursh, Fl. 2, p. 397; Engelm. in Gray, Man. “Bot. ed. 2, p. 439. In 
water, near the Shawnee <iaires, on the Canadian River. August. - Plant larger than usual ; 
the blade of the leaves being 5-6 inches long, an inch or more in breadth, and the scape afoot 
at Flowers not much — than in —— Plantago. i “4 
J UNCACEZ. 
Louzuta campestris, DC. I. campestris, var. J. EH. Meyer, in Linnea, 22, p, 407. Near San 
Francisco, April. Stem 13-2 feet long. Leaves 3-4 lines wide. Flowers in sessile clusters, 
forming a compact ovate head. lL. comosa of E. Meyer, if we may judge from specimens of 
Scouler and others referred to that species by Hooker and by Meyer himself, is hardly to be 
distinguished from L. campestris. 
Juncus BuFONIUS, Linn. Sp. p. 466 ; Torr, Fl. N. York, 2, p.329. Damp places, Los’ Peele, 
etc., California; May. Wholly like the eastern plant. . 
FuNcws xipuiomwes, C, 4, Mey. in Relig. Henk. 2, p. 143, ex Kunth, Enum, 3, p. 331; “Hook. 
& Arn. Bot. Beech. p. 161. Low grounds, Napa Valley, Celitoeniag April, 
IRIDACEA. 
SYRIN | Bermuprana, Linn. Sp. 2, p. 954; Torr. Fl. N. York, 2, p. 291, var. 1 & 2: 
Plains, 1 near San Gabriel, California ; March 23.5 inebls the var. MUCRONATUM, si with flowers 
larger than in the eastern plant. 
SISYRINCHIUM LINEATUM (Zorr. in Emory’s fiep. Mex. Bound. ined.) : scapo late alato erecto 
simplici basi foliato ; foliis linearibus gramineis ; spatha triflora valde inequali, folio exteriore 
flores longe superanta: perianthio luteo lato-campanulato, phyllis obtusis, exterioribus 7-nerviis, 
interioribus. 5-nerviis; filamentis brevibus glabris; capsula ovato-pyriforme. Punta de los 
: Reyes, California ; Apel 18. This species was first detected by Dr. Parry, who found it near 
San Diego. The tie are one-third-larger than in 8. Bermudiana. Another yellow-flowered 
Sisyrinchium occurs in New Mexico, 
Iris LonerpreTaLa, Herb. in Hook. & Arn. Bot. Beech. p. 395. Grass Valley, and near San 
Francisco; May 19. Flowers as large as in I, versicolor. 
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