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BOTANY. 
Obione polycarpa, Torr. (in Emory’s Report, p. 149, sine char.'): suffruticosa, ramosissima; 
ramulis gracilibus paniculatis ; foliis rninutis sessilibus obovato-oblongis obtusis integerrimis 
albido-farinosis ; bracteis orbicularibus, supra mediara distinctis argute grosse-dentatis, utrinque 
cristatis. With the preceding. Leaves 3-5 lines long, crowded. Fruit abundant, aggregated 
on the long slender branchlets. Fructiferous bracts about 2 lines in diameter. 
Obione canescens, Moq. 1. c. p. 212. Llano Estacado ; September ; fruit. The specimens 
belong to the form with broadly winged fruit-bracts. 
Obione argentea, "Moq. 1. c. p. 115. Atriplex argentea, Nutt. Gen. 1, p. 198. Upper 
waters of the Canadian ; with ripe fruit, in which state it is seldom collected. The fructiferous 
bracts are somewhat orbicular, the margin deeply and acutely toothed, and the disk is often 
more or less cristate with leafy appendages. 
Eurotia lanata, Moq. 1. c. p. 121. Diotis lanata, Pursli, FI. 2, p. 602. With the last, 
abundant; September. Hooker refers this to E. ceratoides, but we are inclined to regard it as 
a distinct species. 
Corispermum hyssopifolium, Linn.; Moq. 1. c., p. 140. C. hyssopifolium, Nutt. Gen. 1, p. 4. 
Sandy ravines on the Canadian ; also hanks of streams, Galisteo, New Mexico ; September, 
October. 
Suaeda maritima, Dumort.; Torr. FI. N. York, 2, p. 141. Chenopodina maritima, Moq. in 
EC. Prodr. 13, pars 2, p. 161. Salsola depressa, Pursli, FI. 1, p. 197, excl. syn. Wet saline 
soils along the Canadian River ; August, September. 
SuiEDA fruticosa, Norsk.; Moq. 1. c. p. 156. Var.? multiflora: floribus 6-10 glomeratis, 
foliis carnosis compressis. Llano Estacado. A shrubby much branched plant, apparently 3-4 
feet high. The branches are of a light-brown color, and marked with little knohs, the cicatrices 
of fallen leaves. Lower leaves not seen ; those of the primary branches are nearly half an inch- 
long, and more than half a line wide, compressed, (not semiterete.) The flowers are very 
numerous, and are crowded on the axils of the leaves. Sepals oblong, a little fleshy, con¬ 
cave and somewhat cucullate at the extremity, the narrow margin scarious. Seeds hori¬ 
zontal and vertical in the same plant, black and shining, with a short rostrum. We fully 
agree with Fenzl (in Ledeb. FI. Ross. 3, p. 777) in restoring Chenopodina to Sueeda—the only 
character on which the former genus was founded being inconstant. There are several other 
species of Suaeda, in which both vertical and horizontal seeds are found on the same plant. 
Sarcobatus vermicijlaris, Torr. in Emory’s Rep. p. 150, and in Sitgreaves’ Rep. p. 169. 
Batis ? vermicularis, Hook. Alluvions of the Rio Grande, near Albuquerque ; October; in 
fine fruit. 
AMARANTH ACEiE. 
Montelia tamariscina, Gray. Man. ed. 2, p. 370. Amaranthus tamariscinus, Nutt, in Trans. 
Amer. Phil. Soc. (2d ser .) 5, p. 165. Wet ravines, Deer creek, Indian Territory ; August. 
Amarantus albus, Linn.; Moq. in DC. Prodr. 13, pars 2, p. 264. Sandy ravines near the 
Canadian River ; September. 
Amarantus retroflexus, Linn.; Moq. 1. c.,p. 258. A. grmcizans, Torr. FI. N. York 2, p. 
144. Ravines near Santa Antonito, New Mexico ; and prairies (especially around marmot 
burrows) along the Canadian River ; September, October. 
Gossypianthus tenuiflorus, Hook. Lc. t. 251; Moq. 1. c., p. 337. Dry prairies near the Cross 
Timbers of the Canadian River. Root-stock stout and dark colored, branching into several 
short beads. Stems numerous prostrate 3-4 inches long. Leaves a little pubescent underneath. 
Filaments very thin and translucent. 
Frcelichia gracilis, Moq. 1. c. p. 420. Dry prairies and rocky places along the Canadian to 
the Rio Grande. On Hurrah creek a dwarf form (1-4 inches high) was found, in which the 
inflorescence was reduced to a single terminal cluster or head. 
