Tas. 6660, 
FALL UGIA:. parapoxa. 
Native of New Mezico. 
Nat. Ord. Rosacza.—Tribe PotentitiER. 
Genus Fattuata, Endlicher ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. i. p. 618.) 
Fattuera paradoxa; fruticulus ramosus, ramulis gracilibus pubescentibus, foliis 
fasciculatis anguste cuneatis pinnatim v. flabellatim 3-7-fidis, lobis linearibus 
obtusis subtus niveis, floribus apices versus ramulorum solitariis v. subracemosis 
graciliter pedicellatis, pedicellis- basi minute bracteatis et hic illic bracteolatis, 
floribus amplis albis, calyce parvo, petalis rotundatis, acheniorum caudibus 
1-13 pollicaribus capillaceis plumosis. 
F. paradoxa, Endl. Gen. Pl. p. 1246; Torrey in Emory Rep. p. 185, t. 2; 
S. Wats. Bot. Calif. vol. ii. p. 175. : 
F. mexicana, Walp. Rep. vol. ii. p. 46. 
Stevenrsia paradoxa, Don in Trans. Linn. Soc. vol. xiv. p. 575, t. 22. 
Grum ? cercocarpoides, Moc. et Sesse; DC. Prodr. vol. ii. p. 554. 
A very singular and beautiful plant, closely allied to 
Geum, differing chiefly in the shrubby habit and imbricate 
calyx-lobes. It is a native of the dry interior western 
regions of North America between the Rocky Mountains 
and the Sierra Nevada, where it inhabits open plains 
and ‘hills in Utah and Nevada, but principally in New 
Mexico. I gathered it in company with Dr. Gray on the 
Sierra Blanca at about 7000 feet elevation in the southern 
part of Colorado, bordering New Mexico, whence the seeds 
were sent to England in 1877. The copious large white 
blossoms on the slender branches, moving with the slightest 
breath of wind, gave the bushes a very beautiful appearance. 
The plant flowered for the first time in July of the 
present year, in the Royal Gardens, in an open border of 
the herbaceous grounds. ; 
Desor. A slender bush, two to four feet high, much 
branched below, sparsely above, the terminal branches 
usually very long and slender, tapering into a long single- 
DECEMBER Ist, 1882. 
