426 BOTANY. 



long; calyx 3-4' long, the teeth 1' long, unequal, acuminate; base of the 

 calyx subcapsular, persistent, narrow; capsule nearly glabrous, globose, 

 spinose, nodding. — Dr. Palmer's specimens occasionally show the folds of 

 the sinuses also prolonged into short slender teeth. Southern California, 

 (Xantus,) Northern Mexico, New Mexico, and Southern Utah. 



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Anemopsis^ Califoenica, Hook. DC. Prodr. 16. 1. 237. Stem sim- 

 ple, erect, 3-15' high, puberulent or somewhat pilose, with a single broad 

 clasping leaf in the middle, and an axillary branchlet reduced to 1 or more 

 slenderly petioled leaves ; radical leaves oblong-oval, cordate at base, 2-6' 

 long, 1-3' wide, about equaling or exceeding the petioles, glabrous, sub- 

 glaucescent beneath, stomatiferous on both sides, the younger ciliolate at 

 base ; petioles sparingly pubescent, dilated at base and sheathing ; involu- 

 cral leaves 6-15" long, white becoming brown, unequal, oblong; spadix 

 6-12" long, (sometimes 20" in fruit;) bracts 2-3" long, white, unguicu- 

 late with an orbicular lamina; filament equaling the anther. — From the 

 Sacramento to Southern California and Mexico and eastward to the val- 

 ley of the Rio Grande ; near St. George, Utah, in alkaline soil, (Palmer.) 



' ANEMOPSIS, Hook. (Anemia, Nuttall.) Flowers perfect, crowded in a simple conical spadix, 

 which is surrounded by a 5-8-leaved persistent colored involucre, each flower subtended by a free col- 

 ored bract. Stamens 6-8, free, epigynous ; filaments very short ; anthers oval, 2-celled, the cells lateral, 

 aduate to a thick connective. Ovary solitary, deeply immersed in the rachis and united with it, 1- 

 celled, with .3-4 parietal plaoentfe alternate with the stigmas. Stigmas 3, or sometimes 4, spreading ; 

 ovules 6-8 on each placenta, horizontal, in 2 rows, orthotropous. Capsule dehiscent by 3-4-valves at the 

 top, about 6-seeded ; seeds somewhat rounded, punctulate. — A perennial aquatic stoloniferous herb, with 

 a thick pungeutly flavored root ; leaves mostly radical, subcoriacoous, entire, pellucid-punctulate, pin- 

 uately nerved, petioled. 



