F4 BOTANY. 
TAMARISCINE 4s. 
FouquieRA* sPLENDENS, Engelm.—Shrub 5-15° high, spiny, with 
clusters of leaflets in the axils of the spines (the larger primary leaves 
being seldom seen); flowers in a strict or a thyrsoid panicle, bright scarlet, 
1’ long. A most remarkable looking plant (standing usually out on an 
open sun-exposed slope), with its strict, striated, almost leafless stem 
crowned by a mass of beautiful scarlet flowers. 
HYPERICINEA. 
Hypericum Scouueri, Hook.—Utah, Arizona. (210, 384.) 
MALVACEA. 
SmALceA CANDIDA, Gray.—Collected by Mr. Hance, but neither num- 
ber nor locality given. Probably from New Mexico or Arizona. 
SmpaLcEA MALV&FLORA, Gray.—A somewhat variable and widely 
diffused species. The Expedition has it from Colorado to Southern Arizona 
and New Mexico and west to Southern California. (14.) 
MauvastruM coccinEUM, Gray.—Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, 
Utah. The var. dissectum, Gray, we have also from Utah and New 
Mexico. So far as my specimens go, the variety seems to evince a marked 
liking for the more dry and sandy regions 
MatvastrumM Munroanum, Gray.—Not unlikely that this and Spheral- 
cea Emoryi, Torr., are the same, as according to Mr. Watson’s showing the 
two correspond in all respects, save that the latter usually has two seeds to 
the carpel. It sometimes has but one, and then the distinction vanishes. 
Mineral Hill, Nev. 
Anopat HAsTaTA, Cav., var. DEPAUPERATA, Gray (PI. Wright. 2, p. 23).— 
* Fouqurera, H. B. K.—Sepals 5, free. Petals united into a tube; the lobes of the limb imbricated, 
scuedl ng. Stamens 10-15, hypogynous, exserted; filaments iiiskened at base. Ovary imperfectly 
3-celled; placente about 6-ovuled ; styles 3, long, somewhat united. Seeds = sid 6, oblong, flattened, 
suivomnded by a dense fringe of long white hairs or by a 
soft fragile wood, smooth ; the branches alternately spinose-tubercled, aay with single or fascicled thick 
entire leaves in the axils ; ‘ieee brilliant crimson, in terminal spikes or panicles.—Flora Cal. 1, p. 79. 
+ ANopa, Cav.—Bracteoles none. Calyx 5-cleft, Stamineal column divided at the apex into many 
filaments. Cells of the ovary many, l-ovuled, branches of style as many as the cells of the ovary, 
filiform, capitate, or truncate-stigmatose at the apex. Mature carpels forming a broad starlike verticil 
{from the outwardly projecting spurs]; separating from the axis, erostrate, dissepiments obliterated.— 
pendulous, or fixed horizontally: Hispid or smoothish herbs with the habit of Malva. Leaves 
entire, hastately 3-lobed, or rarely dissected. Flowers violet or yellow, pedunculate, axillary, or in a 
inal raceme.—BenTHAM & HOOKE 
