BOTANY. 
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as liis plant was first discovered, and probably first described, the name^ must be retained for it. 
Besides, the name given to it by Mr. Nuttall is inappropriate, if, as we feel pretty confident, 
the flower of bis plant is white. 
Brodlea grandiflora, J. E. Smith in Linn. Trans. 10, p. 3 ; Kunth, Enum. 4, p. 471. 
Scape glabrous ; umbel, few-(8-12-) flowered ; the rays usually 2-4 times longer than the flow¬ 
ers ; abortive stamens linear, emarginate, and often also mucronate; cells of the ovary about 
10-ovuled. Madelin Pass of the Sierra Nevada ; June 36. 
Brodlea parviflora, n. sp.: scape rougbisb; umbel, many-(15-20-) flowered; pedicels shorter 
than the flower ; sterile stamens ovate-lanceolate, rather acute, entire ; cells of the ovary 6-8- 
ovuled. With the preceding ; June 26. Bulb ovate, sometimes more than an inch in diameter. 
Leaves all radical or nearly so, rather shorter than the scape, about two lines wide, smooth. 
Scape scarcely larger than a crow-quill, the upper part somewhat flexuous, terete, scabrous with 
very minute points. Umbel about an inch and a half in diameter ; pedicels unequal, most of 
them scarcely half the length of the flowers. Involucrate bracts, 4-8, colored, about as long 
as the pedicels, the outer ones ovate and acuminate. Flowers about half an inch long, pale 
purple, the tube somewhat inflated; segments erect, ovate, rather acute. Fertile stamens 3, 
inserted at the upper part of the tube of the perianth, opposite the inner segments ; anthers 
linear-oblong, acute at each end. Style filiform ; stigma dilated, 3-lobed, the lobes fimbrillate- 
papillose. We have long had specimens of this plant, collected by Colonel Fremont on 
Prevost’s Fork of the Utah ; and others brought from the valley of the Sacramento by Dr. 
Stillman. It is easily distinguished from B. grandiflora by the characters given above. 
Pteris Aquilina, Linn. ; Torr. FI. N. York , 2, p. 488. On the Sierra Nevada. 
PART II. 
Plants collected hy Mr. F. Creutzfeldt, under the direction of Captain J. W. Gunnison, U. S. 
Army, in charge of explorations for a railroad from Fort Leavenworth, by the way of the 
Kansas and Arkansas rivers, to Bent’s Fort; thence by the Huerfano river and Sangre de 
Cristo Pass to the valley of San Luis ; thence west from that valley to Grand and Green rivers ; 
thence into the Great Basin, Utah, to the vicinity of the Sevier or Nicollet lake. The collection 
was commenced at Westport, in Missouri, in June, 1853, and finished late in October. 
[The Rocky mountain ranges were entered early in August. The Sierra Blanca, in which the Sangre de Cristo and Roubi 
deau’s passes are found, forms the eastern range of the Rocky mountains, and (at the head of San Luis valley, New Mexico) 
unites with the next western range, which is known as the Sierra San Juan or Sahwatch chain. This sierra, in turn, is joined 
around the head of Grand river to Elk mountain, and this again to the Roan mountains, the latter being only separated from the 
former by Blue river, which breaks through in a canon; and the Roan mountains themselves are separated from the Wahsatch 
mountains only by the entirely similar canon passage of Green river, which also breaks through the great east and west connect¬ 
ing range known as the Uinta mountains. All of these ranges, some more or less parallel, while others form cross and connect¬ 
ing chains, constitute properly the great mountain formation of the continent, to which the name of Rocky mountains is applied; 
the former names applying only to the subdivisions of this great feature.] 
Anemone Virginiana, Linn. Prairies beyond Westport, in Kansas Territory. 
Clematis Pitcheri, Torr. and Gray, FI. 1, p. 10. Prairies between Westport and Cotton¬ 
wood Creek. 
Thalictrum Cornuti, Linn. Beyond Westport, in Kansas. 
Ranunculus divaricatus, Schrank; Gray, PI. Wright, 2, p. 8. Kansas. 
Delphinium azureum, Michx. Beyond Westport. 
Menispermum Canadense, Linn. Witb the preceding. 
Argemone Mexicana, Linn. var. albif^ora, DC. Walnut Creek: 
