722 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



the styles very short, the leaves different, staminate flowers 

 long-pediceled, pistillate less so and erect, not reflexed. 

 In C. corymbulos2cs the calyx lobes are oblong to obovate 

 and shortly acute, fruit reflexed, flowers large, styles 

 long, leaves acute and generally ovate, and nearly equally 

 white-lepidote. 



This abounds in sandy places, especially on drifting 

 sand dunes in the valley of the Virgen and southward. 



COMANDRA UMBELLATA Var. PALLIDA (A. DC. Prod. 



14,636). 



Comandi'a pallida A. DC, 1. c. 



There is no constant character separating this from the 

 type that I can discover. 



Triglochin maritimum var. debile. 



No. 5289. May 23, 1894, Johnson, Utah, 5000° alt., 

 in alkaline clay. 



Flowers simply racemose on the slender, weak stems, 

 which are 6-12' high; roots very thick; leaves all radical 

 and short. This plant is much smaller than T. pahistre, 

 but in the character of the flowers and fruit certainly be- 

 longs to T. maritimuju. Watson's T. -palustre of King's 

 Report is a taller form of the same. 



This grows on clayey alkaline flats af Johnson, Utah, 

 where no other plant will grow. 



Calamagrostis scopulorum. Densely tufted, about 

 2° high, erect, stems slender; leaves about afoot long, 

 coarse, prominently striate-nerved, 3" wide, flat, tapering 

 to a slender point, very light colored as if glaucous, glab- 

 rous throughout except the nerves upwardly are very 

 scabrous; ligule scabrous, 2" long, entire and truncate to 

 lacerate; inflorescence spicate, broadly linear 4-6' long 

 and about equaling the uppermost narrow leaf, 6" to i' 

 broad, occasionally a little lax, usually strict and dense; 

 spikelets nearly white, appressed; rays about five, the in- 



