320 BOTANY. 



panulate, somewhat 5-angled, the lobes yellowish, short, 3-4-tooT;hed ; glands 

 2-3, stipitate, round-cupshaped, rose-colored, with a very narrow or obsolete 

 annular appendage; styles short, entire; carpels convex; seed spherical, 

 somewhat angled, smooth and ash-colored. — California. In sandy sage-plains 

 near the Big Bend of the Truckee and Carson Desert, Nevada ; 4,000 feet alti- 

 tude; May-August. (1,077.) 



Euphorbia seepyllifolia, Pers. From Wisconsin, New Mexico and 

 Texas, westward to Oregon and California; "Western Nevada, (15 Anderson, 

 476 Torrey.) In the valleys from Western Nevada to the Wahsatch, usually 

 in alkaline or saline soils; 4-6,000 feet altitude; May-September. (1,078.) 



EuPHOEBiA GLYPTOSPEEMA, Eng. Prostrate or ascending. From Illi- 

 nois and Canada to the Saskatchewan and southward to Arkansas and New 

 Mexico. Sandy creek-bottoms at west base of the Wahsatch ; 5,000 feet 

 altitude; July-October. (1,079.) 



EuPHOEBiA DiCTYOSPEEMA, F. & M. Kentucky to Louisiana and Texas, 

 and westward to California and Oregon. Antelope Island, Salt Lake ; 

 June. (1,080.) 



EuPHOEBiA (Esula) MONTANA, Eng. DC. Prodr. 15. 2. 148. Pe- 

 rennial, very glabrous, glaucous ; stems many from a thick rootstock, as- 

 cending, leafy, shortly branched from the upper axils or often simple ; leaves 

 scattered, rather thick, subsessile, entire, rounded at base, ovate, obtuse, the 

 uppermost subverticillate ; floral bracts orbiculate -triangular, rarely subcor- 

 date, very obtuse, mucronulate, broader than long ; inflorescence umbellate, 

 the rays becoming repeatedly dichotomous ; involucre turbinate, roughish 

 vdthin, the lobes oblong-linear, velvety ; glands transversely oblong, truncate, 

 very shortly 2-horned ; styles very short, bifid, thickened at the apex ; cap- 

 sule 2" long, ovate, smooth; seeds oblong, superficially pitted, caruncle shortly 

 conical. — The specimens are 8-15' high, the leaves very variable in size, 

 4-15" long; floral bracts smaller, 3-6" wide. From the Upper Platte to 

 New Mexico, Arizona and Sonora. Frequent in the Wahsatch and Uintas ; 

 7-7,500 feet altitude ; June-August. (1,081.) 



Ceoton (Hendecandea) peocumbens, Esch. Dioecious, shrubby at 

 base, 1-2° high, with loose slender alternate branches, or the upper opposite, 

 whitish stellate-pubescent and more or less silvery-scurfy ; leaves on slender 

 petioles, elliptic or narrow-oblong, J-2' long, 2-6" wide, entire, obtuse or 

 acute at the base and apex ; axis of the sterile racemes becoming elongated, 



