Ord. 68. AMARANTACEA 



1. AMARANTUS, Linn. 

 1. Amarantus albus, Linn. 



Hab. Around settlements on the Walla- Walla, Washington Ter- 

 ritory ; introduced from Central America. 



2. NITROPHILA, S. Watson. 



1. NlTROPHILA OCCIDENTALS, S. Watson. 



Banaliaf (Idiopsis) occidentalis, Moquin in DC. Prodr. 13, 1, p. 279. 

 Nitrophila occidentalis, S. Watson, Bot. C. King, Explor. 40th par. p. 297. 



Hab. Saline plains at the base of hills on the Lower Sacramento, 

 California. — Plant 4 to 6 inches high, branching from a perennial 

 base ; the branches erect. Leaves about half an inch long, and half a 

 line wide, slightly connate at the base. Elowers a line and a half 

 long, with two foliaceous bracteoles next the axis. Sepals oblong- 

 lanceolate, acute, whitish, chartaceous, smooth. Stamens two-thirds 

 the length of the sepals : filaments subulate from a broad base, where 

 they are slightly connate : anthers obtuse, 2-lobed at the base. Utri- 

 culus nearly as long as the persistent sepals, acuminate, chartaceous. 

 Seed black and shining ; the albumen copious : cotyledons linear. 



