274 BOTAijrT. 



exceeding the ovary. — California. East Humboldt Mountains, Nevada, Jordan 

 Valley and in the "Wahsatch, Utah ; 5-7,500 feet altitude ; July, August. 

 An early specimen, probably the same, was collected in Truckee Valley. 

 Indiscriminate in its attachments, scarcely two of the numerous specimens 

 growing on plants of the same genus. (938.) 



Var. (1) SQUAMiGERA, Eng.; I. c, p. 499. Flowers 2-2J" long, on shorter 

 pedicels, in rather crowded subglobose clusters ; calyx-lobes lanceolate, 

 acuminate, equaling the open funnelform corolla-tube; coroUa-lobes lanceo- 

 late, as long as the tube, at last spreading ; anthers oblong-linear, cordate at 

 base, on very short filaments ; scales spatulate, fringed, shorter than the tube, 

 incurved ; styles as long as the very acute ovary ; capsule apiculate, 1 -seeded, 

 enveloped below by the corolla-tube. — Collected by Remy in Southern Utah, 

 near the Rio Virgen, on Suceda. Intermediate between this species and C. 

 subinclusa, Dur. & Hilg. 



SOLANAOE^. 



SoLANUM NIGRUM, L. UnionviUe Valley, Nevada. Introduced. (939.) 



SoLANUM UMBELLiFEEUM, Esch. DC. Prodr. 13. 93. Pubescent 

 throughout ; stem shrubby, 6° high, angled, fistulous, branches pendent ; 

 leaves petioled, ovate, acute, entire, l-lj' long ; flowers in terminal 4- 

 (sometimes 2-3-) flowered umbels, with a small urceolate entire involucre ; 

 peduncles equal, elongated ; calyx urceolate, 5-cleft, with acute lobes ; corolla 

 thrice longer than the calyx, pale-violet, 5-cleft, at first subcampanulate, after- 

 ward rotate ; filaments very short, broader at base ; anthers yellow, at first 

 terminally, then laterally dehiscent ; style straight ; stigma capitate ; berry 

 large, purple.— California ; varying much in the size and form ot the leaves 

 and degree of pubescence. Collected by Anderson near Carson City, with 

 the calyx-lobes rather obtuse. 



Physalis pubescens, Willd. Florida to New England and west to New 

 Mexico, Arkansas, the Upper Platte and Missouri, and Lake Winnipeg. 

 Wahsatch Mountains, Utah ; 5,000 feet altitude ; May. (940.) 



Obyctes^ Nevadensis. Small, 2-4^ high , scurfy and viscid-pubescent; 



,/^^^^J^f ^""^^^ terbaceous, 5-cleft, not becoming inflated. CoroUa tubular, with * short 

 equally 5-toothed scarcely spreading border. Stamens 5, equal, or 1 or 2 shorter, with elongated filiform 

 filaments mserted at the base of the tube; anthers rounded-cordate, the ceUs oblong, free below the 

 msertion of the filament. Style somewhat dilated upward ; stigma capitate, emarginate. Capsule sessile, 

 El^f;"'! 'r"'r°T: f^f^^^^^o^^- ^^^^^^^, orblcmar, margined, the testa reticulate 



~l V r T n f ^^*' '^°'*' *"'"*"' ^* *^' ^'''^ °^ *^« ™^U albumen; cotyledons short.-A W 

 annual, erect, branched ; leaves petioled ; flowers pedicelled, in axillary umbeb 



