250 BOTANY. 



seeded ; seeds i" long, rugose, pitted.— Lower valley of the Reese River, 

 Nevada ; 5,000 feet altitude ; July. (882.) 



CoNANTHUS^ AKETioiDES. (Eutoca?, Hook. & Am. DC. Prodr. 9. 295. 

 Phacelia, Torr. in Mss.) Dwarf, 1-3' high, pilose-hispid, diffusely branched 

 from the base and the branchlets short and clustered above ; leaves i-l'long 

 with the slender petiole, oblanceolate or narrow-spatulate, obtuse or acute ; 

 calyx-lobes narrowly linear, 3" long; corolla 5-8" long, the tube narrow and 

 the hmb broadly dilated, 4-6" in diameter, the lobes rounded ; style about 

 equaling the stamens ; capsule 1" or more in length ; seeds |" long.— Com- 

 mencing to flower when less than half an inch in height and finally becom- 

 ing a close tuft, profusely flowering. The peculiar habit and mode of inflor- 

 escence of this plant, the unequal insertion of the stamens high up in the 

 narrow naked tube of the corolla, and the smooth waxy seeds, plainly sepa- 

 rate it from every section of Phacelia, and seem to make good its so long 

 suspected right to generic rank. From Eastern Oregon, (Tolmie ;) Nevada 

 County, Cahfornia, (Mrs. A. J. Davis ;) Carson Valley, Nevada, (Stretch, 

 164 Anderson, 341 Torrey,) Found in the Carson and Washoe Valleys 

 and on the foot-hills of the Trinity and Pah-Ute ranges. Western Nevada ; 

 4-5,000 feet altitude ; May, June. (883.) 



Emmenanthe^ penddlifloea, Benth. DC. Prodr. 9. 301. Erect, 

 branching from the base, 4-12' high, glandular-pubescent; leaves 1-2' long 

 or less, lanceolate, pinnatifid, the segments entire or sometimes 1-3-lobed ; 

 pedicels slender, about equaling the pendulous flowers ; corolla campanulate, 

 3-6" long, a little exceeding the broad calyx, yellowish, the base within dotted 

 with purple. — California, from the Sacramento southward, by numerous col- 

 lectors, and near Empire City, Nevada, (Dr. Torrey ;) Southern Utah, (Dr. 

 Palmer.) 



• CONANTHUS. {Entoca ^ Conantkus, DC.) Calyx 5-parted, sinuses naked, lobes not enlai-ging iu 

 fruit. Corolla tubular-funnelform, with a broad S-lobed limb, appendages none. Stamens included, 

 unequal and unequally inserted in the middle of the tube. Nectary or disk none. Ovary 2-celled, 

 rather many-ovuled. Style bifurcate at the summit. Capsule rounded-ovate, 12-20-seeded. Seeds 

 ovate or oblong, smooth, yellowish. — A low diffusely branched annual, with alternate entire leaves and 

 axillary sessile purple or whitish flowers. 



^EMMENANTHE, Benth. (Including MiltUzia, DC.) Calyx 5-parted, sinuses naked. CoroUa 

 yellow, campanulate, 5-oleft, without appendages, persistent. Stamens included, inserted at the very 

 base of the corolla, with slender filaments and elliptic anthers. Nectary or disk annular, surrounding 

 the base of the ovary, rather thick, free or adnate to the corolla. Ovary ovoid or oblong, compressed, 

 2-celled by the union of the placentae in the axis, many-ovuled. Style bifurcate at the summit, subper- 

 sistent ; stigmas capitellate. Capsule ovoid or oblong, incompletely 2-ceUed. Seeds 2-20, reticulated, 

 or pitted and transversely ridged, pendent.— Low annual herbs, with alternate pinnatifid or entire 

 leaves ; flowers in simple circinate racemes. 



