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more or less compressed; spikes cylindrical, and not jointed; flowers alternate, immersed 
in deep excavations of the rachis; calyx quadrangular, consisting of four cohering sepals 
which are cuculate, spongy at the summit, and at length separate from each other; stamen 
solitary ; seed oblong and loose in the utricle. A common plant in all the Salines of New 
Mexico and California, Northern Flats of the Great Salt Lake, Major Stansbury. 
CHENOPODINA linearis. Moq. in D. C. Prodr. XIII., p. 164. (Sea Goosewort.) About 
_ three feet high, lower part of the stem stout and shrubby. Leaves long, semiterete, acute, 
dilated at base and subamplexicaule; flowers axillary, sessile, solitary, or 2—3 glomerate, 
subspicate ;. calyx fructiferous, but little inflated, cuculate-carinate, greenish; seed acute, 
with a very short beak. Western Shores of the Lake, Major Stansbury. 
NYCTAGINACEA. 
AxzromiA mellifera. Dougl. in Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 2879. D.C. Prodr. XIII. p. 435. 
Stem procumbent, ramose, succulent-glutinous, greenish; leaves fleshy, veined, long-peti- 
olate; peduncles 4—6 inches high; involucre 5-cleft, lobes oblong-lanceolate, at length 
reflected; flowers not crowded ; perigonium less than one inch long; tube greenish, glabrous, 
often incurved, with a slender base; limb 5-cleft, with undulating lobes; stamens about 
the length of the calyx, style shorter, fruit with 5-winged ribs. Strong’s Knob, Major 
Stansbury. . 
A. . . . fragrans. Nutt. Hook. Kew Journ. Bot. V. p. 261. Distinguished from 
A, mellifera by its very numerous, pure white and highly fragrant flowers; tube of the pe- 
rigonium filiform; involucre composed of 5—6 very large, broadly ovate, scarious-white 
leaflets; fruit scarcely winged. Near Sand-Hill Creek. Great Salt Lake Valley. July, 
Mrs. Carrington. 
POLYGONACEA. 
Er1oGonum ovalifolium. Nutt. in Journ. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. VII. p. 50. D.C. Prodr. 
XIV. p. 10. Perigonia yellow, Maj. Stansbury. 
Var. purpureum, E. purpureum. Nutt. Leaves all radical, petiolate, roundish-ovate, 
whitely tomentose; capitulum made up of several sessile whitely tomentose involucres; 
outer segments of the purplish perianth orbicular, sometimes emarginate at base; the 
inner emarginate with narrow segments scarcely exserted. Differing from EH. ovalifolium, 
only by the purplish perigonia. On a stony mountain, on the lake, Mrs. Carrington. 
BE. . . . wmbellatum, Torr. in Amn. Lye. Nat. Hist. I. p. 241. Stem ramose from 
the base; leaves oval, narrowing towards the petiole, white tomentose, but at length be- 
coming glabrous. Peduncles with 1—2 umbels; involucre villous, deeply 6—8-cleft, 
divisions lanceolate, reflexed, longer than the tube; perigonium glabrous, yellow. Valley 
of the Salt Lake, Maj. Stansbury. 
