raed ATS : __ ENGINEER DEPARTMENT, U. S. ARMY. GEOGRAPHICAL AND GEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS WEST OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN. Fins Lreut. GEO. M. WHEELER, Corrs or ENGINEERS, IN CHARGE. ¥ 3 : Me * oo ce . Conk See ? as ae ieee oh THE YEARS 1871, 1872, anp 1873 _ ENGINEER DEPARTMENT, U. S. ARMY. GEOGRAPHICAL AND GEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS : WEST OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH MERIDIAN. | First Lrgut. GEO. M. WHEELER, Corps or ENGINEERS, IN CHARGE. CATALOGUE OF PLANTS COLLECTED IN THE YEARS 1871, 1872, anv 1873, OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF ENGINEERS Washington, D. C., June 27, “ist. Sir: Lieut. George M. Wheeler has sent to this ction the reports of Mr. Sereno Watson, and Dr. J. T. Rothrock, acting assistant surgeon United States Army, upon the botanical collections made in 1871, 1872, and 1873, in the surveying expedition under his charge. is have respectfully to recommend that they be printed at the Govern- ment Printing-Office, and that 1,500 copies be furnished on requisition from this office Very repecteale, your obedient srr a REYS, Brigadier- General snd ‘high of Engineers. Hon. Wm. W. BEL Rebvetaiee of War. Approved, by order of the Secretary of Big . T. Crossy, Chief Clerk. JULY 1, 1874. Ae OE ORE Ey a ac eg UNITED STATES ENGINEER OFFICE EXPLORATIONS AND SURVEYS WEST OF THE 100TH Menmtin ‘Washington, D. C., June 8, 1874. Str: I have the honor to forward herewith reports upon portions of the botanical collections made in the years 1871, 1872, and 1873, by Mr. Sereno Watson, and Dr. J. T. Rothrock, acting assistant surgeon United States Army, and suggest the propriety of their separate publication. The manuscript material already gathered for the natural-history volume of the survey reports is so voluminous that the parts referring alone to the collections of animals, birds, insects, &c., will occupy more than 400 quarto pages. The interest evinced by the numerous requests received for the re- ports upon the various subjects intrusted to the survey for examination leads to this request. Very respectfully, your obedient gh GE ad a Corps of Engineers, im charge. Brig. Gen. A. A. HUMPHR Chief 0 of Tapinsick Ee ERRATA. Page 19, 2d line from bottom, for Fumaria le oi read Funaria, &c. Page 23, 1st line, for June 12, 1874, read June 1873. Page 37, some line, for S. soxph yilifolia, ae ae olia, e from top, for Parnassia ageber read Pat aean parviflora. Page 48, 5th re from bottgm, capital W fo: Page 53, 4th line from top, for C. asboratbandiid ssid C. albolutrescens. Page 58, 14th line from top, cope 5 for fae Avene Selago. Page 59, 26th line from top, Pe ey tenellum. BOTANY. LIST OF PLANTS COLLECTED IN NEVADA, ARIZONA, AND AH, UPON LIEUT. G. M. WHEELER'S SURVEY IN 1871 72. INTRODUCTION, The following report by Mr. Sereno Watson is upon the collections made in the field-seasons of 1871 and 1872, by the collectors of Lieut. George M. ee —— and geological survey, west of the one-hundredth meri mong _ who ea most active in collecting may be named Drs. . O.. Yarr . 8. Hoffman, and — r Loew, Messrs. Henshaw, Bischoff, oy Francis Klett, and other This and the report of Dr. Rothr eri sie apes simply to be pre- gee os the more full and complete rep he name of Mr. Watson is a catalan prcviatlere for the accuracy of the Tot ‘ateusted to him. BOTANICAL REPORT. BY SERENO WATSON. almme CLEMATIS LIGUSTIOIFOLIA, Nutt. Nevada, Utah, and Arizona. THALICTRUM FENDLERI, Engelm. Nevada and Ut ah. THALICTRUM OCCIDENTALE, Gray (?), Proc. Amer. Acad. 8. 372. “Stam- inate specimens were collected in the Wahsatch Mountains near Provo City that may belong to this species. The foliage and habit are the same as in the Oregon plants; panicle leafy ; anthers long-mucron- ate, asiv 7. Fendleri. RANUNCULUS ANDERSONH, Gray. Belmont, Nevada. RANUNCULUS CYMBALARIA, Pursh. ah. AQUILEGIA CANADENSIS, L. In the Southern Wahsatch. With the short sepals of the eastern plant and with much more dissected and smaller leaflets than the next. AQUILEGIA FORMOSA, Fisch. (A. Canadensis, var. formosa, Torr.) Dis- tinguishable from the last by its elongated sepals, nearly or quite equaling the spurs, and by its stouter habit, growing only on stream- banks in the mountains and flowering from July to September. Ne- vada and Utah; ranging from the Rocky Mountains to Oregon and Sitka, but not found in California. AQUILEGIA CAIRULEA, James. Near Provo City, Utah. wwe 4 > 5 + a ° Q > a a") > 5 4 e143 © S26 = ee PS 9 3 = c ae 2 or STANLEY A paarogen g Nutt. Nevada and Arizona. THELYPODIUM INTEGRIFOLIUM, Nutt. Nevada and Utah. THELYPODIUM SAGITTATUM, End]. Carlin, Nevada. CAULANTHUS CRASSICAULIS, Watson. Pete dacamtoy Torr.) Nevada. BRASSICA NIGRA, Benth. & Hook. TROPIDOCARPUM GRACILE, Hook. San aaa Mountains, Arizona a ees NANUM, Watson, King’s Rep. 5. 30, t. 4. Halleck Station, Cuasue 3 LUTEA, Hook. Nevada Gekentt OBTUSIFOLIA, Torr., hasnt Rep. 311. Nevada. VIOLA NUTTALLI, Pursh. va ada. VIOLA CANINA, we evada. KRAMERIA P sation ale Benth. Southern Nevada. FRANKENIA GRANDIFOLIA, Cham. & Schlecht. Nearly sre tae some stiff. hairs upon the stipules and traces of — scen the stem and capsules. The leaves are in sr ediate dations ihe ordinary form of California, with mostly obovate leaves, and those of the recently described species Sos James Torr.; Gray in Proc. Amer. Acad. 8. 622) of Colorado and Texas. Souther n Nev ada. SAPONARIA Vv iparere: Host. Utah, h. STELLARIA JAMESH, Torr. st ae _ ater IF , Ehr sch. RENARIA FENDLERI, Frenige r. SUBCON NGESTA, Watson. Utah. CLAYTONIA CAROLUNIANA, Michx., var. SESSILIFOLIA, Torr. (C. lanceo- ada. LEWISIA REDIVIVA, Pursh. Nevada. HYPERICUM SCOULERI, Hook. Utah. FouQquigra perorayinhak = Gray, Pl. Wright. 1. 76. San Fran- _ eisco Mountains, Ariz SIDALCEA ALT RERORA, yids Nevada and Utah. MALVASTRUM COCCINEUM, Gray, and var. DISsECTUM, Gray. Utah. MALVASTRUM MUNROANUM, Gray. Mineral _ Nevada. SPHAZRALCEA Emoryt, Torr. Nevada. 7 SPHZZRALCEA INCANA, Torr., var. FENDLERI. (S. Fendleri, Gray.) San Francisco Mountains, Arizona, and Utah. SPH ARALCEA ACERIFOLIA, Nutt. Utah. bh. U LINUM PERENNE, L. Nevada and Utah UARREA MEXICANA, Moric. Southern N evada and Arizona. YRODIUM CICUTARIUM, L’Her. Nevada and Utah. JERANIUM RICHARDSONII, Fisch. & Mey. Nevada and Utah. JERANIUM CASPITOSUM, James. Utah. ? ACH YSTIMA vest i Raf. Utah. KARWINSKYA HUMBOLDTIANA, Zuce. Gray, Pl. Wright. 1. 32. (Rham- nus, HBK.) Perse CEANOTHUS "PaNDLER, Gray, Pl. Fendl. 29. San Francisco Mount- ains. Ari ; RHAMNUS pence, Nutt. Arizona. VITIS AESTIVALIS, Miehx., var.(?) Resembling a common Texan and New Mexican forni ; perhaps V. Arizonica, Engelm. Arizona. h. HPOOQmHrEaZn NEGUNDO ORES ET Meench. Arizona and Utah. RHUS GLABRA, L. RHUS AROMATICA, Ait., var. TRILOBATA, Gray. Utah. Ruvus INTEGRIFOLIA, Benth. & Hook. (St yphonia, Nutt.) Arizona. THERMOPSIS FABACEA, DC., var. MONTANA, Gray. Nevada. LUPINUS eel ong ciel Nutt. Wahsatch Mountains, Utah. LUPINUS LEUCOPHYLLUS, Lindl. h. LUPINUS LAXIFLORUS, Dougl. tah. LUPINUS SITGREAVII. Watson, Proc. rene rie 8.527. New species. Perennial, herbaceous, tal!, branched, puberulent and more or less silky- * villous, leat y ; stipules eee: leaflets 7-9, glabrous above, oblan- ceolate, 1 DP peduncled; flowers eh hang ieee, bracts shorter than the calyx, eciduous ; upper calyx-lip short and rather broad, shortly toothed or nearly entire ; petals apparently blue or _purple, 5 5 lines ‘long , the —San F banner rounded "naked, keel ciliate; ovules 5 ranciseo Mount- ‘ains, Arizona; also collected in the a locality y Lieutenant Sit- greave in 1851. rewer’s 2012, fr bbett’s Pass in t _ t ierras and 1020 Wright, from the Scnedi ing. Mountains in New Mexico, differ but slightly. Utah. TRIFOLIUM MONANTHUM , Gray, Proc. Amer. Acad. 6. 523. Nevada. TRIFOLIUM MEGACEPHALUM, ‘Nutt. Diamond Range, Nevada. P 0 ASTRAGALUS DIPHYSUS, Gray. Nevada. ASTRAGALUS LENTIGINOSUS, Dougl., and var. FREMoNnTH, Watson. N ASTRAGALUS CANADENSIS, L. Uta ASTRAGALUS SHORTIANUS, Gray o. Nevada and Utah. In flower only. ASTRAGALUS UTAHENSIS, Torr. Utah. -ASTRAG pep picker, Gray. Nevada. ASTRAGALUS. MULTIFLORUS, Gray. Nevada. Other species were in the collection, but the specimens were too impertect for determina- GLycyrRmza LEPIDOTA, Nutt. Nevada and Utah. HEDYSARUM MACKENZI, Rich. Utah. 8 VictA AMERICANA, Muhl. Nevada and Uta h. LATHYRUS LINEARIS, Nutt. San Francisco Mountains, Arizona. LATHYRUS PALUSTRIS, L. Ut LATHYRUS _ stent Nutt. " Arizona. LATHYRUS VENOSUS, } INDIGOFERA LEP! once. Nutt. Arizo PARKINSONIA MICROPHYLLA, Torr., mat et rar 59. Ari Cassia Covesil, Gray, Amer. Jou Sei. 3. 377. Su icnratae at base, 2° high, hiaaey with a shart { foment " stipules sregraictigy. 1 os oblon 0 uthern me oe ak 1867. Near C. crotalarioides, Kunth, but less iow with fewer leaflets, much smaller glands between each pair of leaflets, much auiallet stipules, a shorter calyx in proportion to the petals, and a omen eg ean r pod. e only means for comparison, however, has been ure in Kunth’s “ Wicca? iene GLANDULOSA, Torr. Ash erent he Southern Nevada. PROSOPIS PUBESCENS, Benth. Same loca MIMOSA BOREALIS, Gray, Pl. Fendl. 39. Ad izon Mimosa BIUNCIFERA, Benth., Hook. Jour. Bot, 4. “409. Ari ACACIA CUSPIDATA, Schlecht., Tinneea, 12. 513. (A. esonnids Torr. & Gray, Flora, 1. 404.) Arizona Pune DEMISSA, Nutt. Nev aad and Utah. Rubus NUTKANUS, M Utah. ae RUBUS STRIGOSUS, Michx. Utah PURSHIA TRIDENTATA, Nutt. Nevada and Arizona SPIRAA MILLEFOLIUM, Torr., Pac. Railroad Rep. 4. 83, ¢t. 5. South- ern Nevada. SPIR.ZA CASPITOSA, Nutt. h. CERCOCARPUS LEDIFOLIUS, Nutt. Nevada om pea CoWANIA MEXICANA, Don. Nevada and Ari GEUM MACROPHYLLUM, gas tah. GeEuM Rossn, Ser. Uti FRAGARIA VIRGINIANA, Hibrh, , Var. GLAUCA, Watson. ROSA BLANDA, Ait. tah. Rosa CaLirornica, Cham. & Schlecht. Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. 8, 382. (Rk. blanda, hetesnmiat = Pe Mes hag Nevada and Utah. POTENTILLA FRUTICOSA, L.; also var. ALPINA; low and compact, the leaves very ek oO lines wert linear and revolute; the same as 342 Watson. Ut PoTENTILLA ANSERINA, L. Ut ah. POTENTILLA GLANDULOSA, Lindl. tay POTENTILLA PENNSYLVANICA, POTENTILLA GRACILIS, Dougl., and “ai ‘RIGIDA. (P. rigida, Nutt. P. Nuttallii, Lehm.) Utah. AMELANCHTER ALNIFOLIA, ne Nevada, SAXIFRAGA PuNCTATA, L. Uta a CEREUM, Dougl. Nevada, ie 7 RIBes AUREUM, Pursh. Northern Nevada. LYTHRUM ALATUM, L., var. LANCEOLATUM, — & Gray. Mo varias ZAUSCHNERIA OALIFORNICA, Presl. Arizo EPILOBLUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM, EPILOBIUM TETRAGONUM, L. Nevada and Utah. rien PANICULATUM, Nu AYOPHYTUM oe Torr. & Gray. Nevada. GAY mes ere EMOsUM, Torr. & Gray. ie ee rate ai; Utal and var. GRANDIFLORA, Torr. & Gray. Guaseaeki HETERANTHA, Nutt. Utah. CENOTHERA SCAPOIDE A, Nutt., var. PURPURASCENS, Watson, Proc. Amer. Acad. 8. 595 id. CENOTHERA ALBICAULIS, Nutt. CENOTHERA GREGGH, Gray, FE A > 46. Arizona. _. CANOTHERA TANACETIFOLIA, Torr. & Gray. Nevada. da. . CENOTHERA ALYSSOIDES, Hook. & Arn. Utah. VI th. PETALONYX THURBERI, Gray. Southern seat egos ETALONYX NITIDUS, Watson, Amer. Naturalist, 7.300. New specie Leaves ovate, $-1 inch long, acute, coarsely- toothed, shortly- petioted. vitreous sae ining. not greatly reduced on t ranches ; flowers in cor acted cymose panicles ; ; otherwise like P. Thurberi. —Southern Nev Ovournira DIGITATA, Gray, Pl. Wright. t. 2. 60. Arizona. ‘ : Se AMILLARIA ARI IZONIOA, Engelm., ined. Arizona. fe. Ma AMILLARIA VIVIPARA, Haw. var. Arizona and eonres ECHINOCACTUS POLYCEPHALUS, Engelm. & Big. Ari peemee re WISLIZENI, Engelm., Pac. Railroad pois 4, 30, t. 3. Ari Pree af eae Engelm. Nevada. CEREUS ENGELMANNI, Parry. Arizo een OPUNTIA BASILARIS, Engelm. & Big OPUNTIA BIGELOVH, Engelm., Pac. haxonr Re. 4.50,4.19. Arizona. OPUNTIA ARBORESCENS, Engelm. Arizona. UNTIA TESSELATA, Engelm., Pac. Railroad Rep. 4.52, t.21. Arizona. j ie R SIUM ANGUSTIFOLIUM, L. Nevada and Utah. ELICA W HEELERI, Watson, Amer. Naturalist, 7.301. New species. Tall and stout, roughly puberulent ; leaves pikerite ; leaflets ovate- oblong, 2-3 inches long, acute, incisely serrate, the teeth broad and mucronate, middle leaflet petiolulate; umbels naked; rays numerous, unequal, becoming 2-5 inches long; pedicels and ovary hispid; petals apparently white ; fruit broad-elliptical, 3 lines long, subpubescent, the dorsal wings thick, narrower than the lateral ones.—U ER MULTIFIDA, Gray (2). Foliage only. Utah. PEUCEDANUM sativum, Benth. & Hook. Utah. GARRYA FLAVESCENS, Watson, Amer. Naturalist, 7.301. (Garrya —(?), ~ Watson, ‘King’s Rep. 5. 421.) Silky pubesce nt with straight ap- — leaves yellowish, elliptic-oblong, acute at each end, 10 1~23 inches long, glabrate above, entire, revolute on the margin; pe- 6 lines long; aments pendulous, the bracts broad-ovate, connate, foliaceous, acute or the lower ones acuminate, 6-10 pairs; terile aments rather loose, 1-2 inches long, the flowers 1-3, on pedicels equaling or exceeding the ample bracts; fertile aments crowded, 1 inch long, with solitary flowers and densely pubescent fruit.—From Southern Nevada and Utah to Arizona and New Mexico; growing ee i CORNUS PUBE SCENS, Nutt. Utah. This is ¢. gs C. A. Meyer, but Nuttall’s name is the older and unappropriate galanin ob ara ahs st Gray, Pl. Wright, 2, 66; Jour. Linn. 0 C. 11. SAMBUCUS aE AUoA Natt. Utah. GALIUM BOR B, L. tah VALERIANA EDULIS, Nutt. Utah, PLECTRITIS CONGESTA, DC. PECTIS PAPPOSA, Harv. & Gray, Pl. Fen vdl. 62. Arizona. BRICKELLIA A CALIFORNICA, DC. sg and Uta BRICKELLIA (CLAVIGERA) prbilk FOLIA, Watson Amer. Naturalist, 7. 301. New species. Very slender, with epreniieg eg ree gla vbrous, with a slight ig seep 88 ; leav es in » acuminate, 2-5 inches long, flat, entire or obscurely sinuate-toothed, rough- nese 3-nerved, punctulate; flowers on short sain iediccta: axillary and in small loose terminal clusters; involucre glabrous, 2 lines long, the scales acut- ish, or the inner linear ones obtuse or truncate, spreading; achenium 10-striate, slightly and minutely hairy on the angles, nearly 1 line long; pappus soft, minutely bar Seine, but little longer than the achenium.—Southern Nevada Also collected at Kanab, Southern fo : : RP M, plancnick , Aare ei DC., Persil. 5.167, Gray, Bot. Mex. Bound. 76. San Francisco Mountains, Arizona Ut ASTER GLACIALIS, Nutt. ‘ ASTER ENGELMANNI, a ASTER colina Benth. Torr. & Gray, Flora, 2.165. Arizona. oo HERA CANESCENS, Gray. Nevada, Arizona and Utah. ERIGERON acento Parsh, and var. DIS DEUS, Gra corp tah. EEIGERON CASPITOSUS, Nutt. San Francisco Mountains, ‘Aviagua and faeces RON BELLIDIASTRUM, Nutt. coe and Arizona. ERIGERON MACRANTHUS, Nutt. ah. WNSENDIA SCAPIGERA, Eaton. Ne ada, GUTIERREZIA EUTHAMLA, Torr. & Gray. Ne vada, Arizona and Utah. SOLIDAGO NEMORALIS, Ait., var. Nevada, Utah, and San Francisco Mountains, Arizona. SoLipaco Gurraponis, Gray. Nevada. SoOLIDAGO PUMILA, Nutt. Nevada; BIGELOVIA GRAVEOLENS, Gra y, Proc. Amer. heat. 8. 644. vie Torr. & Gray.) Nevada, ‘es andl Utah, Also var. ALBICAUL Gray, l.c. Nevada. : ose ay Dovueiasu, Gray, I. ¢. 645. Clinoneie viscidifiora, Torr. & ey ray.) Also var. SERRULATA, Gray. Utah. (eed ee ee ee 11 rea ee Gray, Pl. Fendl. 76, and var. DENUDATUS, Torr. Ari APLOPABPUS ernest Nus, Watson, Amer. Naturalist, 7. 301. New spe- cies. Low (6 inches high,) suffruticose, resinous- scabrous, the short mer bacdoa stems leafy to the top; leaves oblong-lanceolate, s long, shortly cuspidate, attenuate to the base, entire, subscabrous, 3- nerved; heads 3-4 lines long, in corymbs of 3-5, terminating the branches ; outer involucral scales linear, acuminate, W with acecous spreading tips, the inner chartaceous, acutish, with feign Rape margins, erect, nearly equaling the pappus; rays few, w and but little exceeding the disk ; style exserted; achenia S tne” pawase cent.—Nearest to A. suffruticosus, Gray. Antelope Cation, Utah. ]. Utah. Se =} fa) Bes LAPHAMIA pose eal oe ee Amer. Naturalist, 7. 301. ies. ; st diff 4 branches si ables Veh ane ‘albartiato broadly ovate, 2-3 lines long, pints compressed, hispid ; pappus none.— With nearly the habit of e last. vada. Puarreis unui, Torr., Bot. Mex. Bound. 82. zona BACCHARIS HALIMIFOLIA, L. Torr. & Gray, ecg 2. ‘258. Nevada and Arizona. BACCHARIS SALICINA, Torr. & Gray , Flora, 2. 258. Nev Lees BACCHARIS EmoryI, Gray, Bot. Mex. Bound. 83. )