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red. Islands and shores of the Great Salt Lake. June. Col. Fremont, Maj. Stansbury, 
and Mrs. Carrington. 
BOMBACEA. 
Sarcobatus Vermiculatus, Torr. in Kmory’s Report, p. 149. S. Maximiliani, Nees; 
Fremontia Vermicularis, Torr. in Pl. Frem. Smithson. Contr. vi., p.6: Batis Vermicularis, 
Hook. fl. Bor. Am. 2, p. 188. A curious thorny shrub, 6—8 feet high, having much the 
habit of Hibiscus Syriacus, and found in saline soils, where it occupies almost exclusively 
the bottom of neighbouring streams; it is eminently a saline shrub, and its leaves have a 
very salt taste. Stem diffusely branched; flowers dioicious, in terminal ovoid aments, the 
staminate flowers at the summit; leaves alternate, linear, fleshy, almost terete, 6—12 lines 
long; calyx broadly campanulate, five-parted; no corolla; stamens five, short; ovary five- 
celled, hairy. It abounds on certain parts of the shores of the Great Salt Lake, and at 
Strone’s Knob. Maj. Stansbury. (Called Pulpy Thorn by Lewis and Clark.) 
LEGUMINOSE. 
Cicer arietinum, Linn. (Chick-Pea.) Stem angled, slightly villous; leaflets 15—17, 
oval, dentate; peduncles axillary, one-flowered; flowers purplish or white. Perhaps in- 
troduced? Salt Lake Valley, Maj. Stansbury. 
VictA Americana, Muhl. Torr. & Gr., fl. 1, p. 269. (Vetch.) Leaflets 10—14, ellip- 
tical, obtuse, mucronate, strongly reticulated, with undulating margins; peduncles shorter 
than the leaves, four to eight-flowered; flowers purplish-blue. June. Great Salt Lake 
Valley, Maj. Stansbury, Mrs. Carrington. 
V. . . . Oregona, Nutt. in Torr. & Gr., fl. 1, p. 270. Stem weak and pubescent, 
10—15 inches high; leaflets 6—8 pairs, elliptical-oblong, cuspidate, strongly veined; pe- 
duncles three to five-flowered, rather shorter than the leaves. Flowers smaller than the 
preceding. Fillmore City, Mrs. Carrington. 
Latuyrvs polyphyllus, Nutt. in Torr. & Gr., fl. 1, p. 247. (Vetchling.) A robust plant, 
with erect and angled stem. Leaflets 5—8 pairs, oblong, veined, obtuse, 2—2% inches 
long (in my specimens;) peduncles shorter than the leaves; flowers rather small, light- 
purple. Valley of the Great Salt Lake, Mrs. Carrington. 
L. . . . Venosus, Muhl. Torr. & Gr., fl. 1, p. 274. Var. Leaflets broadly ovate, almost 
round, strongly veined, 5—7 pairs; peduncle five to ten-flowered, about as long as the 
leaves; flowers rather large, purplish. Great Salt Lake Valley. June. Mrs. Carring- 
ton. 
PsoRALEA argophylla, Pursh, Torr. & Gr., fl. 1, p. 301. Erect, divaricately branched ; 
leaves three to five-foliate; spike pedunculate, interrupted ; lower teeth of the calyx longer 
than the flower. The whole plant very silky-silvery. July. Mrs. Carrington. 
