20 BOTANY. 
ACANTHACEA. 
Sericocrapuis Cauirornica, Nées in DO. Prodr. Beloperone Californica, Benth. Bot. 
Voy. Sulph., p. 38. Sandy desert bordering Carisso Creek, interior California. A twining 
shrub, with inconspicuous leaves and crimson flowers. 
VERBENACEA, (By John Torrey.*) 
VERBENA AUTLEBIA, Linn.; Schauer in DC. Prodr. 11, p. 554; Torr. in Bot., Mex. Bound. 
Surv., p. 128. V. bipinnatifida, Schauer, I. c. Camp 60-65. April 25-31, and Partridge 
Creek, April 24. 
VERBENA PROSTRATA, R. Brown, Hort. Kees, (ed. 2,) 4, p. 51; Schauer, l. c. Near San Diego, 
California; November 9. 
LABIAT Ai. 
Hyptis Emoryi: fraticosa divaricato-ramosa ramis cinerascente-puberulis ; foliis petiolatis 
ovatis dentato-serratis crassiusculis rugosis utrinque cinereo-pubescentibus ; cymis pedunculatis 
axillaribus folio vix longioribus ; calycibus pedicello equalibus turbinato-campanalatis cinereo 
pubescentibus, dentibus zqualibus lanceolatis tubo subduplo brevioribus. ‘‘In rocky arroyos; 
common on the Upper Colorado; January 14. A fragrant shrub, 5 feet high, with numerous slen- 
der spreading branches which are at length nearly smooth.’’ Leaves from one-half to three-fourths 
of an inch long, obtuse, strongly reticulate-rugose ; the petiole about one-third the length of 
the lamina. Cymes few flowered in loose umbels. Pedicels 2 lines long, naked. Teeth of the 
calyx acuminate. Corolla purple, about twice as long as the calyx. This plant was first 
detected on the Lower Gila, by Major Emory, while accompanying the military expedition of 
General Kearney to California in 1846. It was afterwards found in the same region by Col. 
Frémont. In the Botany of the Mexican Boundary Survey it was erroneously referred to 
H. laniflora, Benth., (by a double mistake, printed H. lanata,) which, though nearly allied, 
differs in the siiooth leaves and extremely woolly calyces. 
DRACOCEPHALUM PARVIFLORUM, Nutt. Gen. 2, p. 25; Torr. Fl. New York, 2, p.'15. Mesa, 
near Camp 70 and Cedar Creek, April 24. Peach Dechast Spring; May 18. 
Hepeoma incana, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. Surv., p. 130. Oryabe; May 13—17. A hand- 
some shrub with aspect and odor of sage, growing in tufts two to three feet high. Flowers 
pale purple. 
Satvia CotumBarim, Benth. Lab., p. 302. Sitgreaves’s Pass; March 25. This is the chia of 
the native Californians. 
- BORAGINACES. 
AMSINCKIA LYCopsoIDEs, Lehm.; DU. Prodr. 10, p. 117. Sitgreaves’s Pass; March 25. A foot 
and a half high. 
_ AMSINCKIA InTERMEDIA, Fisch. & Mey.; DC. 1. c.; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound., p. 140. Riverside 
mountain; January 25, and Camp No. 61—62; March 26. 
LITHOSPERMUM LONGIFLORUM, Spreng. Lyst. 1, p. 554; Torr.l.c. L. incisum, Lehm. Asp. 2, 
. 305. Canon of Partridge Creek and Fort Debines: April 16 to May 22. Grows in tufts 
with a thick ligneous root. 
Enirercurox Cuoristanum, DOC. Prodr. 10, p. 30; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound., p. 141. Yampai 
é March 27. The whole plant gives out a duo purple stain to the paper in which the 
ing verbenacee have been elaborated by Prof. Gray, with the exception of the cactacee studied by Dr. 
a. e all examined by Prof, Torrey, excepting the grasses, which were worked wu: up 
