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Title: Report of the geological exploration of the fortieth parallel
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel (1867-1881) King, Clarence, 1842-1901 Hague, A. (Arnold), 1840-1917 Emmons, Samuel Franklin, 1841-1911 Hague, James D. (James Duncan), 1836-1908 Meek, F. B. (Fielding Bradford), 1817-1876 Hall, James, 1811-1898 Whitfield, R. P. (Robert Parr), 1828-1910 Ridgway, Robert, 1850-1929 Watson, Sereno, 1826-1892 Eaton, Daniel Cady, 1834-1895 Bien, Julius, 1826-1909, engraver
Subjects: Discoveries in geography Geology Mines and mineral resources Paleontology Botany Birds
Publisher: (Washington, D.C. : G.P.O.)
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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twisted, at length becoming entangled ; involucresvery small, shorter than the flowers, campanulate, few-flowered, not exceed-ing the bracts, appressed, scattered on the naked branchlets; bractlets fili-form, scarcely barbellate; calyx white, rose-purple or yellowish, glabrous, 1long, the similar segments (the inner ones slightly narrower, scarcely longer,)obovate-cuneiform and broadly refuse, quasi-pandurate from the incurving ofthe margins at the middle ; achenium minutely scabrous above; embryo muchincurved, the cotyledons accumbent.—Southern California, (Ileermann ;)Western Nevada. Carson Desert, West Humboldt Mountains, and MonitorValley; 4-5,000 feet altitude ; June-September. (1,032.) Eriogonum deflexum, Torr. T. Sf G., I. c, p. 181. (§ Peduxculata.See Appendix, under Eriogonea\) Annual, rather stout, 1-2° high ; leaves1-2 in diameter, radical, rounded, subcordate, lloccose-woolly, long-petioled ;branches of the glabrous effuse many-flowered panicle rigid, rushlike, usually
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CATALOGUE. 307 divaricate; pedicels rigid, sometimes racemose-secund, soon deflexed, veryshort; involucre short-campanulate or hemispherical, about 1 long, exceed-ing the pedicels, many-flowered; bracelets bearded-ciliate, the outer broad-linear, the inner filiform-spatulate; calyx white or yellow, glabrous, veryobtuse at base, the outer segments orbicular, cordate at base, the innerobovate, retuse, many times smaller; beak of the achenium more orless scabrous.—With much the habit of the Virgata section, which it approaches. Southeastern California, Southern Arizona, and Southern Utah,(Palmer, 1870.) Virginia Mountains, Western Nevada, and in the Wah-satch at the mouth of American Fork Canon; 5-6,000 feet altitude ; August. (1,033.) Eriogonum nutans, T. & G.; I.e., p. 181. Annual, low (2-4) andsomewhat slender; leaves all radical, * in diameter, round, floccose-woolly,.»n long or short petioles; panicle loose and spreading, rather simple, glab-rous ; pedicels nodding, 2-3 long,

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