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the rich and moist soil which it prefers ; it comes into flower nearly a 

 month later, branches freely into a panicle, and continues in bloom 

 through the whole summer. The color of the blossom is a clear yel- 

 low, the petals of a rather deeper hue than the sepals. The sepals 

 and the limb of the petals are not so ample as in A. ccerulea, the former 

 hardly exceeding an inch in length and five lines in width ; they barely 

 equal the latter in breadth, and do not much exceed them in length. 

 The long spurs are similar, very slender, and over two inches in length. 

 If the flowers individually are not so showy as those of A. ccerulea, 

 they make it up in their number and longer continuance, and are re- 

 markable for their color. 



Wislizenia Palmeri. Foliis superioribus (an omnibus?) simpli- 

 cibus linearibus petiolo pluries longioribus ; floribus fructuque prae- 

 sertim majoribus ; valvis maturis oblongis nervosis circa extremitatem 

 truncatam echinatis. — On the Lower Colorado (California and Ari- 

 zona), Dr. Edward Palmer, 1869. This was overlooked in the naming 

 of Dr. Palmer's valuable collections, but is an abundantly distinct 

 species of this peculiar genus. The leaves, so far as seen, are simple, 

 but those at the base of the stem are unknown ; it may well be that they 

 are trifoliolate, inasmuch as several of its relations are in the habit of 

 bearing compound leaves below and simple ones toward the inflores- 

 cence. In this species they are commonly an inch and a half long and 

 only two lines broad. The valves or lobes of the fruit are fully two 

 lines long (twice the size of those of W. refracla) somewhat cyliudra- 

 ceous, many : nerved, very little reticulated, the truncate extremity 

 encircled by a row of five or six stout spinous tubercles. 



Frankenia Jamesii (Torr. in herb.). Fruticosa, ramosissima, 

 pedalis, scabro-puberula ; ramis fastigiatis ; foliis linearibus marginibus 

 arete revolutis quasi-acerosis saepius punctatis ; petalis 5, lamina cune- 

 ata erosa ungui suboequilonga, appendiee parva ad apicem integrum 

 fere adnata ; staminibus 6 ; stigmatibus terminalibus ; ovulis 3 oblongo- 

 linearibus ex apice funiculi sub-basilaris proelongi pendulis. — Eastern 

 base of the Rocky Mountains, on rocks and bluffs, Colorado Terri- 

 tory, James in Long's Expedition, Fremont; near Pueblo, Brandegee, 

 J. H. Redfield, E. L. Greene. Western borders of Texas, C. Wright, 

 no. 626. — Wright's specimen is out of flower. It is named as above 

 by Dr. Torrey in my herbarium, on comparison with a fragment col- 

 lected half a century ago by Dr. James, which he had recently deter- 

 mined, but had not published. It is now characterized from excellent 



