172 A SKETCH OF THE BOTANY OF THE BASIN OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE OF UTAH. 
M. . . . Drummondii, Don. D. C. Prodr. X. p. 89. Stem ascending, glabrous; 
leaves glaucous, punctate, subdenticulate; the radical ones ovate-lanceolate, petiolate ; 
the cauline sessile, oblong-lanceolate; panicles terminal, crowded; corolla three times 
longer than the calyx. Salt Lake Valley, Maj. Stansbury. 
AMSINCKIA lycopsoides, Lehm. in D. C. Prodr. X. p. 117. Stem branching; cauline 
leaves ovate-lanceolate; throat of the corolla hairy, the tube three times longer than the 
limb; stamens inserted on the tube. a little above the base. Shores of the Salt Lake, 
Maj. Stansbury. 
Erirricuium glomeratum, D. C. Prodr. X. p. 131. (Stick-seed.) Stem erect, simple; 
leaves spathulate, on long petioles, hirsute. Spikelets paniculate, 5—7 flowered, axillary, 
conglomerate, sometimes bifid with the upper spikelet sessile. Calyx very hirsute, lobes 
linear-lanceolate, as long as the tube; limb of the corolla very small, yellowish-white. 
Valley of the Great Salt Lake, Maj. Stansbury, and Mrs. Carrington. 
EcuinosPerMuM floribundum, Lehm. in D. C. Prodr. X. p. 143. Stem erect, fistulous, 
sparingly hirsute; cauline leaves sessile, ciliate, pubescent, radical ones lanceolate, petio- 
late; racemes bifid, bracteolate; nutlets ovate prickly; flowers, in our specimens, white, 
rather large. Great Salt Lake Valley, Mrs. Carrington. 
HYDROPHYLLACES. 
Evutoca heterophylla, Torr. in Stansb. Rep. p. 393. Erect, glabrous, pubescent; leaves 
2—3 inches long, subsessile, oblong-linear, entire or furnished on each side with an oblong 
or linear lobe; flowers blue, shortly pedicellate; lobes of the calyx ciliate, obtuse; corolla 
widely campanulate, almost rotate, lobes rounded, larger than the calyx, appendages ten 
in pairs between the bases of the filaments. Valley of the Great Salt Lake, Maj. Stans- 
bury and Mrs. Carrington. 
POLEMONIACE. 
Putox speciosa, Pursh. D. C. Prodr. IX. p. 307. Coespitose, rigid, erect, glabrous. 
Leaves linear-subulate; base of the calyx strongly 5—nerved, pentagonal, with rigid su- 
bulate teeth; divisions of the corolla entire, obovate, cuneiform, flower pinkish. Great 
Salt Lake Valley, Mrs. Carrington. 
PP... . canescens, Torr. in Beckw. Rep. p. 122, t. VI. Dwarf, very much branched 
and densely coespitose, tomentose when young and canescent. Leaves acerose, imbricated, 
at length recurved, spreading, not rigid, and very woolly towards the base. Flowers ses- 
sile; teeth of the calyx similar to the leaves; tube of the corolla much larger than the 
calyx. Mountain south of the Great Salt Lake, Lt. Beckwith. Wahsatch Mountains, 
Mrs. Carrington. 
