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Meconevia Carrrornics. Torr. and Frém. ~ 
Foti obovate-spatulate ; stamens 1112. . 
3 n the American fork o (‘the Sacramento ae 
This species is Aiubanediate between Meconelll and Platystigma, I 
lso are much large ‘The torus, which islike that of tee oe is very 
inct. 
. :. _Ancrosxcox. Torr. and Frém.—n. * og 
acente. © Sheds oOlOnE: sooth phrmtissit pe- 
root. Leaves numerous, mostly crowded 
t the root, flabelliform-cuneate, densely clothed with long gray up- 
wardly barbellate hairs, 3—5 lo bed at the summit; the lobes with 2--3 
th, which are tipped with a rigid pungent upwardly scabrous” bristle. 
em scape-like, about a foot high, furnished about the middle with fed or 
o'small bract-like leaves, smooth above, rough towards the base 
a umbellate, simple or soméwhat compound panicle : 
gated, erect. Petals about an inch long, yellow. 
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es. Catirosnicon. Torr. and Frém. 
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Wen mountains, on the banks of a creek; flowering early in May. ‘The 
soil was sterile and gravelly. Although very near Papaver, it differs so 
much in habit and in the strophiolate seeds, as well as in other chdracters, 
must be a distinct genus. 
KRAMERIA. 
A .. iF apecs of xii genus was found on the Virgen river, in Califor. 
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a slender annual, 3—4 inches high, with the radical a:yatal in rosulate clus- . 
ters, and more dilated at the extremity than in M4 Orega The flowers 
a of bear described i in fos Voyage of 
r, Was only in : while our specimens — 
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