Botany of United States Geological Exploration, 40th Parallel
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34. Mirabilis (?) New Genus. Accords with the generic description [illegible] in arrangement of the bracts. Flowers attached to the bract — the bract about 6. — Perigynium 6-5, funnel shaped, slightly twisted, with three lobes at the sinuses — stamens 7, equally to peri, chamome and 3 or 4 base united in the cup of the seed + excluding it. Style slightly, stigma equilateral. — Nearly allied to Mirabilis multiflora, in flowers & fruit, habit, etc., but the ovule is monophyllous (antherine very deeply cleft) & free from the peduncles. — Sir W.J. Hooker in 1869- May, t. xvi, orders all the [illegible] spring Mirabilis villosa to one. Somewhat faint apparently — mostly 2-winged — fleshy, glaucous, bracts c. Ovoids, flowers ? b) May 14, 1869. c) 15, ... Between the Tinker & the Humboldt — foothills a) 13, ... Polygynaceae. 35. Oxyria digyna, Canad. — With Mr. Hargrave, Labrador & Greenland, + in the Arctic Shore to Beringe Straits; Unalaska & in The Rocky Mts. to Colorado, in the Canada Mts. q. Worth & the Sierra of California. 36. Rumex longifolius, [illegible]. — Referred by Hooker + others to R. aquatilis. 3-5° high. Saskatchewan Region + on The western Coast from Anacostia to Bittera & California. Parkications, Paton. a) July 28, 1869 — Ruby Valley — Spring. b) Aug. 20, ... Humboldt Valley, [illegible]. 37. R. Britannica, [illegible], L. July 12, 1869 — Jordan Valley, On Cottonwood Creek (Straitly) St. Louis & Illinois & the Upper Missouri, and farther West to Texas & N. Mexico. 38. R. nervosa, Phl. — From the Saskatchewan to the Columbia + southward to New Mexico & California. May 23, 1869 — W. Humboldt, N.W. [illegible] Oregon. June 12, ... Grass Valley, [illegible] California.