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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.