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men I have seen a regularly tetramerous flower, with 8 
sepals 8 stamens, and a 4-valved capsule. The leaves, which 
botanists do not seem to agree upon, appear to me fistulous, 
on i lower — so deeply grooved as almost to hoe two 
. Parryi is indeed very ¢ close. 
18. J. trigtumis, Linn., on the Arctic coast and in the 
Rocky Mountains; in Dolsrads, Parry, 395, and Hall & 
57.—The seeds are of the same size as in the last 
Harbour, 5; 
es tal ae appendages are much longer, thong’ only in 
ecimen from Zermatt, Switzerland, I have seen them 
—. than the cy of the seed. Ther outidtati “Tea ves are 
parce below and flattened Sen and really enclose 
reven three, tubular passages 
“ sty@ius, Linn. From North-western New York to 
Maine, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland. The seeds of 
already be bee aude of the short and recurved. stigmas which 
are vveulian” to this wines the filaments are 8 or 10 times 
as long as the oval anther, and much longer than the pistil; 
the flowers, i in the American specimens examined by me, are 
groove on their lower part (generally a little on one side), and 
the interior cavity filled “ses very loose tissue which divides 
it into several (3-5) tu 
. J. CASTANEUS, Smith; the lower part of the terete, 
of the sepals; linear, a ite anthers half as “8 as the fila- 
ments; stigmas exsert; oblong seeds, 0.4—0.5 line, or with the 
appendages, which considerably exceed the seed in length, 
1.6 lines or more, long, the longest of any of our species.— 
From the Roc cky Mountains of Colorado to the rae al 
coast, and eastward to the Hudson Bay regions and to New 
foundland. 
21. J. Vas SEYI, n.sp.: cxspitosus; caulibus ( ed contr 
tenuibus rigidis striatis basi fasco-vaginatis ; foliis elongatis 
setaceis teretiusculis striatis versus basin sulcatis farctis; 
