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BOTANY. 
from North Mexico, through Texas, to Arizona. It has been said that its 
flowers, contrary to the habit of the genus (which has diurnal flowers— i. e., 
open in sunlight), are nocturnal, which, however, is now positively denied. 
30IDEJ3 * f/W , 
-Point of Mountains, Arizona (723). / 
MoLLUtV VERT1CILLATA, L/ 
\ U#BELLIFEJLE. 
Eryngium Wri<^tii, Gfray (PI. Wright. 1, p. 78).—Erect, smooth, 
pale, somewhat branched; dower leaves Narrowly spatulate, regularly pec¬ 
tinate or I toothed, with Mch tooth terminating in a bristle; stem-leaves 
lanceolate, 3-^5' long, deej/lY cleft, with me divisions terminating in a bristle; 
upper leaves shorter, inm-e deeply aiicV palmately parted; petals blue, with 
a long, iMexed point; ieaflets Vf the involucre longer than the head; inner 
bracts sightly exceeding the flWers.—Sanoita Valley, Arizona (603), at 
6,500 feet altitude. 
MujSENiUMf TR^CHYSPERMUM, NWttL-—Branching from the base; radical 
leaves ascending, petioled, pinnatelyparted,,with the segments pinnatifid; 
rachis Broad, 1-2" j fruit nearly a£ brtmd as long, and slightly roughened; 
involucjpl of 8-1 Of leaflets, 2~4 // /long, marrow, but slightly dilated up¬ 
ward.—^Colorado (p 6). \\ 
Cicuta macuI ata, L.—Nevada and\lAah. 
* Cmium GrAiR|)NERr, Benth. & Hook.^l^vada, where, as in Utah, the 
tubers Ire an important article/of food with the Indians. 
■.'^¥| c oiD B -^^-“'A|™iscel]ancx)n8 group, chiefly of fleshy or\jcculent plants, with mostly opposite 
leaves and no stipules ; jdifiering from Caryophjllacece and AortuladwecB by having distinct partitions to 
th^j) vary and capsule (pilich are therefore 2-man y-celled) ; the pet As and stamens sometimes numerous 
ifi the imsfaner of Cactkcece (but the farmer wanting in most of theVenera); agreeing with all these 
drders iu |he campylo|ropous or ampliitropous seeds j the slander embryo curved partly or completely 
round a rnialy albumen.”—FI. Cal. p. 250. 1 \ A 
t Momentum, Nn|t.—Calyx-teefh. conspicuous. Petals clawed, obovate, point indexed. Stylopodia 
small, depressed, stylef rather short/ Fruit ovate, slightly compressed on\lie side, commissure rather 
broad; carols 5-angled, a little compressed on the back, wrdh the primaryHribs filiform, rather promi¬ 
nent, lateral ones 'contiguous. VRtse many. Carpophore bifid. Seed comprised a little on the back, 
with the sid|s a little Incurved.—Perennial, caespitose herbs, branching from thXbase, smooth. Leaves 
pinnate or Hpinnatifip, segments pinnatifid. Many-rayed umbel compoundWHixolucre none, Invo- 
lucel of afoul short leaflets. Flowers white or yellow,—B entiiam & Hooker. 
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