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OxytTropis Lamperti. LAMBErtT’s 
OXYTROPIS. 
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Class and Order. 
Diapetpuia Decanpris. 
Generic Character. 
Carina in mucronem superne desinens. Legwmen bilocu- 
lare aut sub-biloculare, sutura inferiore introflex4. 
Specific Character and Synonyms. 
Oxrrropis Lamberti; acaulis, sericeo-pilosa, foliolis lanceo- 
lato-ellipticis utrinque acutis, scapis folia squantibus, 
spicis capitatis, bracteis linearibus longitudine calycis. 
Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept. 2. p. TAO. 
Oxyrropis Lambertii ; cespitosa, acaulis, foliolis numerosis 
lineari-lanceolatis strigosis remotiusculis, scapo foliis 
longiore, spica oblonga, bracteis lanceolatis calyce sericeo 
brevioribus, Nuttall Gen. plant. amer. 2. p. 98.. ex 
anglico. 
Oxyrroris was separated from the overgrown genus of 
aGatus by the celebrated botanist Decanpoxte, in his 
Monograph of the allied genera. According to Nurraux this 
is the only species of the genus that has been found in 
America, the argentata of Pursu, belonging to AsTraGaLvs, 
as now limited, and being quite different from the argentata 
of Pallas’s Herbarium. 
Native of the woodless hills of the Missouri, from the river 
Plata to the mountains. 
It is a tolerably hardy perennial, and a beautiful plant 
when in flower, which happens in May and June. It is at 
present very rare, as we do not know that it is living in any | 
collection but that of our friend Mr. Lamerrr at Boyton, to 
-whose kindness we are indebted for the flowering specimen 
trom which our drawing was taken in May 1819. 
_. Mr. Lamuerr first raised it from seeds gathered by Mr. 
Nurraxx on their native soil. 
