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4. M. multiflora Gray. Stems scabrous, pubescent, 7.5 to 30 em. high: leaves 
lanceolate, attenuate below: flowers numerous, opening only in bright sunshine, sub- 
tended by 1 or 2 bracts: petals deep yellow, abruptly pointed, 12 to 18 mm. long. 
(Incl. M. Wrightii Gray.) —Throughout southern and western Texas. Very variable 
in foliage, size and color of flowers, and length of capsule. 
2. EUCNIDE Zuccarini. 
Annual or biennial herbs, armed with stinging hairs and barbed 
pubescence, with alternate cordate or ovate petioled lobed and ser- 
rately toothed leaves, yellow pedicelled flowers in terminal cymes, 
oblong calyx-tube with 5-lobed persistent limb, 5 petals united at base 
and inserted on the throat of the calyx, numerous stamens with fili- 
form filaments adnate to the base of the petals and deciduous with 
them in a ring, 5-cleft and angled style, and a many-seeded obovate 
capsule with 5 expanded placente and opening by 5 valves at the 
short-conical summit. 
1. EB. bartonioides Zuce. A tender succulent plant, branching and usually 
spreading on the ground, with ovate cut-toothed or slightly lobed leaves on slender 
petioles, and flowers mostly on still longer simple peduncles (7.5 to 15 em. long), the 
5 ovate petals and very many slender filaments fully 2.5 em. long.—From the Colo- 
rado to the Rio Grande and westward beyond the Pecos. The large showy yellow 
flowers open only in the bright sunshine. 
3. CEVALLIA Lagasca. 
Branching canescent-pubescent stinging herbs, with larger simple 
bristles rising from glands, smaller ones short and thick, white and 
shining bark, alternate sessile sinuate-pinnatifid leaves, silky-hirsute 
flowers terminating the peduncles and aggregated in hemispherical 
heads, tube of the plumose calyx short and with 5 linear erect lobes, 5 
plumose erect petals as long as and similar to the sepals, 5 erect sta- 
mens with very short filaments, pilose linear-oblong anthers 2-lobed at 
base, connective produced beyond the anther-cells into an elongated 
tubular process, and a dry indehiscent oblong or obovoid fruit crowned 
by the plumose calyx and corolla and witha solitary suspended seed.— 
The single species, so far as known, is 
1. C. sinuata Lag.—Extending throughout the Rio Grande region and westward 
to Arizona. 
TURNERACEZ. 
Shrubby or herbaceous plants, with often hispid but not stinging 
pubescence, simple alternate leaves, yellow flowers, 5 united sepals, 5 
equal petals inserted on the calyx, 5 distinct stamens alternate with 
the petals and inserted below them, 3 or 4 commonly branched or 
many-cleft styles, free 1-celled ovary with 3 parietal placentie and 
numerous ovules, and a 3-valved loculicidal capsule with numerous 
arillated crustaceous and reticulated seeds, 
