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7. COWANTA Don. (Curr ROSE, ) 
Shrubs, with small coriaceous entire or toothed leaves, showy, short: 
peduncled and terminal flowers, a short turbinate calyx-tube, 5 petals, 
5 to 12 densely villous carpels becoming coriaceous narrowly-oblong 
striated fruits nearly included in the dilated calyx-tube, and tailed with 
the elongated plumose styles, 
1. C. ericzefolia Torr. A straggling bush 3 to 6 dm. high, with very branching 
stem and heath-like leaves, which are linear and entire, 4 to 6 mm. long, cuspidate, 
whitish hairy beneath, with strongly revolute margins: flowers white.—Crevices of 
limestone rocks on the Rio Grande above the mouth of the Pecos. 
2. C. Havardi Watson. A much branched shrab 6 to 9 dm. high, with rough gray- 
ish brown bark and very near the last: leaves distichously fascicled at the ends of 
the numerous very short branchlets, entire, revolute-terete, white-tomentose below, 
glabrous above, spinulose-apiculate, 4 to 6 mm. long: flowers solitary on the branch- 
lets, shortly pedicellate: calyx-lobes glandular-hispid: petals whito or yellowish, 6 
to 8 mm. long: carpels 8, with the plumose tails 2.5 em. long or less.—“On a rocky 
mountain west of Tornillo Creek, western Texas” (Havard), 
8. FALLUGIA Endl. 
A low undershrub, with pinnately lobed leaves with revolute mar- 
gins, showy white solitary or panicled flowers terminating slender 
elongated naked peduncles, bracteolate calyx with a Short-hemispheri- 
cal tube, 5 petals, and numero us densely villous carpels becoming nar- 
rowly oblong exserted achenes tailed with the elongated plumose 
styles, 
1. F. paradoxa Endl. Much branched, 6 to 9 dm. high, with white persistent 
epidermis: leaves scattered or fascicled, somewhat villous and thick, 6 to 20 mm. 
long, sessile, cuneate and attenuate into a linear base, pinnately 3 to 7-cleft above, 
the segments linear and obtuse: flowers few, 2.5 cm. or more in diameter: calyx- 
lobes ovate, the apex linear or trifid: bractlets linear, entire, bifid or 2-parted : 
achenes very numerous, 3 mm. long, the slender plumose tail 2.5 to5 em. long.—Com- 
mon in the mountains west of the Pecos. An easily recognized plant by its feathery 
appearance from the numerous long plumose persistent styles. 
9. GEUML. (AvENs.) 
Perennial herbs, with pinnate or lyrate leaves, valvate bracteolate 
calyx, persistent strictly terminal styles which are elongated after 
blooming aud often plumose or jointed, and numerous stamens and 
achenes, the latter heaped on a dry receptacle. 
1. G. album Gmelin. Smoothish or softly pubescent: stem slender, 6 dim. high: 
root-leaves of 3 to 5 leaflets, or simple and rounded, with a few minute leaflets on the 
petiole below ; those of the stem 3-divided or lobed, or only toothed: calyx lobes 
reflexed ; petals small, white or pale greenish-yellow: styles jointed and bent near 
the middle, the upper part deciduous and mostly hairy, the lower naked and hooked, 
becoming elongated : head of fruit sessile in the calyx, the receptacle densely bristly- 
hirsute.—A common eastern species, extending into Texas to the valley of the San 
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