74 BOTANY. 



TAMARISCINEJE. 



Fouquiera* splendens, Engclm.— 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 thyreoid 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. 



HYPERICINE.E. 



Hypericum Scouleei, Hook.— Utah, Arizona. (210, 384.) 

 MALVACEAE. 



Sidalcea Candida, Gray.— Collected by Mr. Hance, but neither num- 

 ber nor locality given. Probably from New Mexico or Arizona. 



Sidalcea malv^efloea, 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.) 



Malvastkum 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 



Malvastrum Munroanum, Gray. — Not unlikely that this and Sphceral- 

 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. 



ANODAf hastata, Cav., var. depauperata, Gray (PI. Wright. 2, p. 23). — 



* Fouquiera, H. B. K.— Sepals 5, free. Petals united into a tube ; the lobes of tbe limb imbricated, 

 spreading. Stamens 10-15, hypogynous, exserted ; filaments thickened at base. Ovary imperfectly 

 3-celled ; placenta) about G-ovuled ; styles 3, loDg, somewhat united. Seeds 3 to 6, obloug, flattened, 

 surrounded by a dense fringe of loug white hairs or by a membranous wing. — Shrubs or small trees, with 

 soft fragile wood, smooth ; the branches alternately spinose-tubercled, and with single or fascicled thick 

 entire leaves in the axils ; flowers brilliant crimson, in terminal spikes or panicles. — Flora Cal. 1, p. 79. 



+ Anoda, Cav. — Bracteoles none. Calyx 5-clef t. Stamiueal column divided at tbe apex into many 

 filaments. Cells of the ovary many, 1-ovuled, branches of style as many as the cells of the ovary, 

 filiform, capitate, or truucate-stigmatose at the apex. Mature carpels forming a broad starlike verticil 

 [from the outwardly projecting spurs] ; separating from the axis, erostrate, dissepiments obliterated. — 

 Seed pendulous, or fixed horizontally: Hispid or tmoothish herbs with the habit of Malva. Leaves 

 entire, hastately 3-lobed, or rarely dissected. Flowers violet or yellow, pedunculate, axillary, or in a 

 'erminal raceme. — Bentham & Hookee. 



