394 APPENDIX D. — BOTANY. 



Phlox hoodii, Richards, in Frankl. Jour. app. ed. 2, p. 6, t. 28. 

 — Mountains near the Salt Lake, April and May. 



P. LONGirOLiA, Nutt. Jour. Acad. Philad. 7, p. 41. — North-west 

 shore of the Salt Lake, and near the mouth of Bear River, May 10. 



Physalis lanceolata, Mich. — Salt Lake Valley, June. 



Gentiana affinis, Griseb., Gent. p. 289. — Moist places, Aug.l8. 



AcERATES DECUMBENS, Dccaisne in D. C. Prod. 8, p. 522. 

 Anantherix decumhens, Nutt. — Mountain on Stansburjr's Island, 

 Salt Lake, June 26. Stems often assurgent. Calyx and corolla 

 green. Crown dark purple. 



CoMANDRA UMBELLATA, Nutt., Gen. 1, p. 157; Hook. Fl. Bor. 

 Amer. 2, p. 139 t. 179. — Stansbury's Island, Salt Lake. Fr. 

 June 20. 



RuMEX VENOSUS, Pui'sh. Fl. 2, p. ? Green River. Fr. Septem- 

 ber 12. 



Erigonum umbellatum, Torr. in Annal. Lye. Nat. Hist. New 

 York, 2, p. 241.— Valley of the Salt Lake. 



E. Fremontii, Torr. — With the preceding. 



Sarcobatus vermicularis, Torr. in Emory's Report, p. 149. 

 S. maximiliani, Nees. Fremontia vermicularis^ Torr. in Fremont's 

 first and second Reports. " Pulpy Thorn" of Lewis and Clark's 

 travels. — Strong's Knob, Salt Lake, Fl. June 10. 



Grayia polygonoides. Hook, and Arn. Bot. Beech. Voy. suppl. 

 p. 338, Hook, ict., 271. G-. spinosa, Mog. in D. C. Prodr. 11, p. 

 110. — Carrington's Island, Salt Lake. 



Chenopodina linearis, Mog. in D. C. Prodr. 11, p. 164, excl. 

 syn. Ell. and Michx. — Mountain on the west shore of the Salt 

 Lake. Fl. May 30. This plant attains the height of about three 

 feet. The lower part of the stem is stout and shrubby. It differs 

 entirely from the 0. maritima of the Atlantic States; yet the 

 authors who describe it as not shrubby are quoted by Moquin 

 under C. linearis. 



Arthrocnemum fructicosum, Moq. Chenop. Enum. p. Ill, 

 and in D. C. Prodr. 11, p. 151 ? — North shore of the Salt Lake. A 

 common plant in all the salines of New Mexico and California. 

 It is a shrub about one foot high, and much branched. The joints 

 of the branches are more or less compressed, and emarginately 



