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of 6-10 membranously margined, more or less united bracts; petals 
white, with an attenuated apex and quasi-obcordate; calyx-teeth short; 
lon 
fruit pubescent, broadly oval, 3’-4” long and 3” bro ad, the thickish 
wing more than half as wide as the seed; vitte 3 in the intervals, 6 
upon the commissure, conspicuous; seed flattened.—Hall Harbour, 212. 
SANICULA MARILANDICA, L.—Canion City, Brandegee. Ute Pass, at 
9,000 feet altitude, Coulter. — 
ereve Suna) ye eas Cation City, Brandegee. Introduced. 
E JM LANATUM, Mx.—Cation City, Brandegee. Plains of the 
Platte cnet Dwi in Tare ‘Vee, 
ABALIACZE. 
ADOXA! MOSCHATELLINA, L. Perennial, small and slender, herba- 
root tuberous; radical leaves 2-3 ternately componnd, on 
bie cauline solitary, 1-2 ternate or incised; flowers 4-6, 
1 ter minal ie Sanam the lateral ones mostly pentamerous, 
| tetrame rous.—An a alpin ne plant found also in the north of 
Bloreeca Asia. It ination the odor of musk.—“Subalpine ; common ;” 
cin & Harbour, 223; Meehan. Mount Lincoln, at 15,000 feet altitude, 
oulter. 
CORNACEZ. 
CORNUS CANADENSIS, L.—Hall & Harbour ; Parry, 437. 
CORNUS PUBESCENS, Nutt. (C. sericea, 8. (2) occidentalis, T.andG.) Shrub 
6° 8° high; branches sub-erect, branchlets spreading, more or less red- 
dish, puberulent when young; leaves 14/-4’ long, ovate or elliptical, acute 
or acuminate, slightly pubescent, pale beneath, obtuse or acute at base 
cymes crowded, p sent, 14/—2/ in diameter ; calyx-teeth minute ; peta s 
Ww blong-lanceolate, rather obtuse; stigma small, capitate; drupe 
Subglobose, white, becoming lead-color.—“ Without the calyx-teeth, en- 
arged stigma, a woolly pubescence of C. sericea, and ne 
stolonifera.” Watson.—Platte River, Coulter. 
CAPRIFOLIACEZ. 
Su 
—, 
NAA BOREALIS, Gronov.—Hall & exept “gh Dr. Smith. Mount __ 
Lin 
fénooln at 10,000 oe altitude, Coulter. grays 
SYMPHORICARP ee 8, HB. K. Shrub, 90.49 high, branching 
widely. ; leaves vent  eaetabld, rbicular, ovate, or ovate- lanceolate, acute 
or obtuse, entire or sharply cleft and lobed, soft-pubescent and ciliate or 
wholly glabrous and often glaucous, $/-14/ long ; flowers axillary, solitary 
on the ends of the short, leafy br: vk a, : bracts much shorter than the 
Ovary; teeth of the calyx obtuse, glabrous or ciliate; corolla tubular or 
funnel-form, 2/6", nearly canes within, usually light pink; stamens 
Ps style included ; fruit globular or oblong, white—Hall & ’ Har bour, 
ae n City, Bran ndegee ; Canby. cots Pret eros: Porter. Wes- 
oe at 11,000 feet altitude, Coulter. Poagi> E 
rs perfect. Tube of the calyx coherent with the lower part of the 
poms. Flow 
ov. peak ting inb slightly” 2-3 cleft. Petals 4-5 inserted on the limb of the calyx, united 
at the ; Spreai _ Stamens = lp filament 2-parted; the divisions bea ring each 
base 
ere Rootes anther. vies basa ibulate. Fruit a n herbaceous and j juicy berry, 
‘itha me ae ie ae dseed. eter erse mean with a membrana- 
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