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more long and, as well as their segments, linear, the lower ones entire, acute, all 

 others tripartite, trinerved ; those of the inflorescense broader and acuminately lacinu- 

 late at their apex, the upper, as well as the calyx, entirely red and darkly veined, 

 dusky at the base, scarlet at the top. Calyx li--U" long, subinflated bifid, each 

 lobe acutely bidentate. Corolla nearly 2" long, of a light blackish yellow, with black 

 veins, the lower lip rudimentary, the upper often 1" long. In river bottoms, Posa 

 Creek, August. 



LABIATE. 



TRICHOSTEMA lanceolatum, Benth. Lab. in D. C, Prodr. vol. xii., p. 573. A 

 remarkably fragrant plant. Fort Miller, July. 



SALSOLACEjE. 



OBIONE beacteosa, nova species. Planta herbacea, 2-3-pedalis, oleracea farinoso- 

 lepidota, monoica. Rami sulcati, apicibus masculiferis paniculatis ; parte inferiori 

 foliosa et singulis axillis spicam foemineam bracteosam prodente. Internodia h" vel 

 minora. Folia subglauca membranacea, sessilia, lanceolata acuminata mucronata/ 

 passim dentata vel integra, pollicaria vel minora, superne minus lepidota. Florum 

 masculorum glomeruli globosi, in spicas laxiores, paniculum ebracteatum terminalem 

 constituentes, dispositi. Flores fceminei in bractearum axillis glomerati; bractese 

 attenuate, maxime acutatse, albido-lepidotae. Thecse immaturse V" longse, subgloboso- 

 lenticulares, reticulatse, marginibus foliaceis laciniatis muricatae, alatse acuteque api- 

 catae. 



An herbaceous monoicious plant, 2-3 feet high, with furrowed branches about a 

 foot or more long. The top nearly destitute of leaves, branching into a panicle com- 

 posed of simple interrupted spikes of globosely-glomerate male flowers and the 

 lower part bearing in the axil of each leaf a bracteose spike of female flowers. Inter- 

 nodes i" or less. Leaves oleraceous, sessile, lanceolate acuminate, mucronate, sparsely 

 dentate or entire, 1" or less long, rather glaucous, less lepidote on the upper surface. 

 Female spikes crowded with attenuated and strongly pointed whitish lepidote bracts. 

 The immature thecse orbicularly subglobose, reticulated ; winged, muricated and 

 acutely tipped with jagged leafy crests. Growing in large bushes in bottom lands. 

 Posa creek, August. 



POLYGONACEiE. 



ERIOGONUM fasciculatum, Nutt? A low stoutish and much branched shrub, 

 with a brown tattered bark on the lowest branches. Leaves elliptic oblong, fascicu- 

 late and slightly revolute. Umbels compound on long peduncles. Flowers numerous, 

 showy, whitish with red central lines. Posa Creek, September. 



