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darker; petioles of lower leaves as long as, or slightly 
longer than the leaves; upper ones shorter; stipules sub- 
ulate or obsolete; staminate flowers short pedicelled; bracts 
filiform and branched; sepals equal, oval, densely stel- 
late; petals 5, narrow, ciliate; stamens 7 to 12, slightly 
exserted; filaments short ciliate; pistillate flowers generally 
clustered at the base of the short (1 to 3 em. long), 
raceme, densely soft woolly with a purplish tinge; stellates 
long stalked or stipitate in the inflorescence, subsessile 
or short pedicelled elsewhere; calyx unequally 6- to 8- 
parted, the sepals oblanceolate or oblong; petals none; 
disc orbicular, glandless or glands rudimentary; styles 3, 
2 to 3 times bicleft, 5 to 6 mm. long; capsule globose, 7 
to 9 mm. long, densely tomentose, slightly exceeded by 
the accrescent woolly sepals; seeds orbicular, strongly 
biconvex, 5mm. long; caruncle small, stipitate. — Plate 18. 
Specimens examined from New Jersey (Knisken, 1846); Illinois 
(Vasey, 1860; Seymour, 1880; M. B. W. 1887; Hall, 1861; Buckley, 1838; 
Williams, 1879; Vasey; French; Bebb, 1860); Kentucky (Short, 1831, 
1835); Missouri (Frank, 1835; Bush, nos. 122, 335, 372; Dewart, no. 60; 
Letterman, 1880; Buttler, no. 87; Blankinship, 1887; Pammel, 1886; 
' Trelease, 1897; Engelmann; Burgess); Arkansas (Nuttall; Pitcher; Rolfs, 
1891); Louisiana (Hale; Holloway); Tennessee (Fendler; Ward, 1877; 
Gattinger = Curtiss, no. 2524; Bain, no. 215); Texas (Lindheimer, no. 
304; Thurber, no. 288; Reverchon, 1874; Buckley, 1882; Lomas, 1897); 
Oklahoma (De Barr, no. 280) ; Indian Territory (Palmer, 1863, no. 309 in 
1868; Burrill; Butler, 1877; Ward, no. 11, in part; Carleton, no. 502; 
Bush, no. 553); Kansas (Popenoe, 1873; Bodin, 1887; Smythe, no. 327; 
Waugh, 1892; Norton, 1892; Gayle, no. 545); Iowa (Parry; Rolfs; 
Hitchcock, 1887, 1889); Alabama (Baker, no. 2; Mohr); North Carolina 
(Biltmore herb., no. 3740). 
C. Eneeimannt n. n. Pilinophytum Lindheimeri Engelm. 
and Gray, Pl. Lind. 24. 1845 (Boston Jour. Nat. Hist. 
5:232); C. capitatus Lindheimeri Muell. Arg. in 
DC. Prod. 15?: 687. 1866; Coulter, Bot. West. Texas 
399. 1894. C. Lindheimeri Wood, Class Book Bot. 
631. ed. 1865; Young, Fl. Texas 485. 1873. 
Annual, erect, 5 to 20 dm. high, much branched, umbel- 
