A SKETCH OF THE BOTANY OF THE BASIN OF THE GREAT SALT LAKE OF UTAH. W/0 
JUNCAGINER. 
TRIGLOCHIN maritimum. Linn. Gray’s Man. p. 437. (Arrow Grass.) A plant with 
thickish fleshy leaves, rush-like, sheathing the base of the jointed scape; flowers small, 
ina spiked raceme; fruit ovate or oblong, acutish, of 5—6 carpels, rounded at the base 
and slightly grooved at the back, the edges acute. Saline shores of Stansbury Island. 
June. Major Stansbury. 
LILIACEAE. 
PoLyGonatuM gigantewm. Dietrich. Gray’s Man. p. 446. P. canaliculatum, Pursh. 
(Great Solomon Seal.) Glabrous throughout; stem stout and tall, terete; leaves ovate, 
partly clasping; the upper oblong and nearly sessile, many nerved, green on both sides. 
Peduncles 2—8 flowered, perianth cylindrical, oblong; filaments smooth, inserted on the 
middle of the tube. Valley of the Great Salt Lake. Major Stansbury. 
Au.tum stellatum. Fraser, in Hook., fl. Bor. Am. 2, p. 184, t. 144.  (Garlic.) Bulb 
oblong-ovate; leaves flat, linear lanceolate, shorter than the scape; scape elongated, terete ; 
umbel erect, multiflore, loosely fastigiate; sepals oblong, acute, not longer than the sta- 
mens, of a bright red colour; ovary 35—lobed, with a double wing-like crest at top. 
Mouth of Weber River.. May. Major Stansbury. 
A. . . . . reticulatum. Fraser, in Hook., fl., Bor. Am. 2, p. 184, t. 145. Bulb 
oblong with a densely matted fibrous coat; leaves flat, linear-lanceolate, shorter than the 
scape; umbel erect, densely fastigiately flowered; sepals narrowly ovate, acuminate, 
longer than the stamens; ovary shortly 6—fid at the apex; remarkable for its white 
glossy flowers. Wasatch Mountains. June. Major Stansbury. 
AMBLIRION pudicum. Torr. Lilium pudicum. Pursh. fl. 1. p. 228, f. 1. Fritillaria 
pudica, Spreng. 
Var. biflorum. Torr. in Stansb. Rep., p. 396, t. IX. Root flat, orbicular and toothed 
round the border, with a cluster of little tubers on the upper side at the base of the two- 
flowered stem; leaves linear, 2—4 inches long; flowers yellow, nodding, about an inch 
in length, somewhat obconical or funnel form, entirely destitute of a nectariferous grove; 
stigma simple, undivided. Promontory Range. April. Major Stansbury. 
CatocHortus Nuttallii. Torr. in Beckwith’s Rep., p. 124. ©. luteus, Nutt. in Jour, 
Acad. Nat. Sc. Ph., n.s. VII. p. 19. Stem 2—4 flowered, (one specimen with 4 flowers;) 
leaves narrowly linear, with a long subulate acumination; radical leaves 8 inches long. 
Flower more than 3 inches in diameter; exterior sepals lanceolate, acute, greenish along 
the centre, with a scarious margin and a small purple spot towards the base, two-third 
the length of the inner sepals, which are dilated, wedge-shaped and shortly pointed in the 
centre; lamina white with an oblong-oval purple spot toward the base, in the centre 
