List of Plants Collected in Nevada, Arizona, and Utah, Upon Lieut. G.M. Wheeler's Survey in 1871 and 1872 ...

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Page 27 - Remove for a single summer-night the aqueous vapour from the air which overspreads this country, and you would assuredly destroy every plant capable of being destroyed by a freezing temperature. The warmth of our fields and gardens would pour itself unrequited into space, and the sun would rise upon an island held fast in the iron grip of frost.
Page 4 - I have respectfully to recommend that it be printed at the Government Printing-Office, and that fifteen hundred copies be furnished on requisition from this Office.
Page 16 - Stems short and slender, 1-2 inches high, leafy above; pubescence minute or hirsute; leaves alternate, £-1 inch long, oblong, attenuate into a short petiole, entire, or some of them broader and 3-lobed ; bracts entire, resembling the leaves, twice longer than the calyx ; flowers nearly sessile ; calyx with ovate-triangular teeth, shorter than the tube; corolla funnelform, 8...
Page 17 - Cal. 1, p. 471. or acutish, attenuate or abruptly contracted at base, sparingly toothed, mostly rather long- petiolulate, glabrous, or, with the petioles, pubescent when young : fruit 1' long, terete at base, widening into an oblong, obtuse wing, calyx persistent. — Ash Meadows, Nevada, and also collected by Dr. Bigelow on the Mexican Boundary Survey, at Devil's Run Canon, but not mentioned in the report. A stem of twelve years' growth, 1£ inches in diameter, has a smooth grayish brown bark.
Page 28 - ... the mountain side; and at times one may observe that the prolongations of pine woods, which extend out into the park, become less and less dense, until finally only a single tree remains at intervals, these disappearing, and then only the half decayed remains reach further out toward the valley. In one place it was observed that the tops of these dead trees all pointed to the east. This suggested the idea that the destruction may have been due to one of the fierce west winds which, during the...
Page 1 - An annotated list of the birds of Utah, by HW Henshaw, pp. 39-148. [5] Engineer Department, US Army. Geographical and geological explorations and surveys west of the one hundredth meridian. First Lieutenant Geo. M. Wheeler, Corps of Engineers, in charge. Catalogue of plants collected in the years 1871, 1872, and 1873, with descriptions of new species. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1874. 8°. 62 pp. Botanical report, by Sereno Watson, pp. 5-19. Preliminary report on the botany of central...
Page 26 - ... plains, and is the most conspicuous and widespread shrub of the Territory. The water courses are lined with quite a variety of trees, the mesquite, cottonwood, willow, sycamore, and ash being the most abundant and, in the order named, probably of greatest economic importance. At first sight there is a wonderful sameness about the flora of the plains, which has not escaped the notice of casual observers. The uniform sage-green character of the foliage, with the great preponderance of red and yellow...
Page 17 - Jl' long, oblong or ovate, obtuse oracutish, attenuate intoa slender petiole; heads fi-lu-flowered; involucral scales narrowly lauceolatc, lonff-acuminate, 3-4" long; flowers pink, the lobes obcordate with a deep sinus; fruit with a flrm body, strongly reticulate-pitted, the 3-5 broad wings consisting of a simple lamina, usually truncate above.— Nearest to A. umlteUuta. Arizona (Wheeler). EKIO<;OM'M TnoMi'SON.E. (§ Corymbose*).— Branches short, subwoody, ascending, leafy, bearing a long naked...
Page 36 - I have named as streptocarpa all specimens having leaves "beset and especially ciliate, with long and rigid, shaggy, spreading, simple or simply forked hairs, far more bristly than in D. aurea, and with no fine stellular pubescence intermixed.
Page 40 - Watson, King's Report, vol. v, p. 100.) — 2 to 4 feet high. Neither prickly nor spiny. Moderately branching. Young branches light brown, minutely glandular-pubescent, somewhat angular by two ridges continued from the edges of the expanded bases of the petioles above. Branches of the previous year ashy-gray, with a deciduous epidermis, which, on being shed, shows the bark underneath dark brown. Leaves cordate-orbicular, deeply 5-cleft; lobes rather obtuse, unequally serrate, though hardly doubly...

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