466 SUPPLEMENT. 



SARRACENIACE^. 



2. DARLINGT6NIA, Torr. 



D. Californica, Tokr., p. 81. Add. syn. Clirysamphora Californica, Greene, Pittonia, 

 ii. 191. 



PAPAVERACEiE. 



8. ARGEM6NE, Tourn. Add lit. Prain, Jour. Bot. xxxiii. 207-209, 

 307-312, 325-333, 363-371 ; Eastwood, Erytliea, iv. 93-96. In the light of 

 Prain's admirable revision, our species may be treated as follows : — 



* Flowers orange, yellow, or at least ochroleucous, mostly small for the genus. 



A. MexicAna, L. Moderately prickly upon stem, sepals, capsules, as well as margins and 

 midribs of otherwise smooth and glaucescent coarsely sinuate-pinnatifid leaves : flowers sub- 

 sessile or short-peduncled : petals obovate, orange-colored or more commonly lemon-yellow, 

 an inch or le.ss in length : stigma sessile. — Spec. i. 508 ; Prain, 1. c. 308, where copious synon- 

 ymy is duly cited. — Common in waste places especially in the Atlantic and Gulf States. 

 (Introd. from Mex., W. Ind., S. Am., and extensively nat. in warmer parts of Old 

 World.) 



Var. OChroleuca, Lindl. Petals ochroleucous: style evident. — Bot. Reg. t. 1343; 

 Prain, 1. c. 310. A. ochroleuca, Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. iii. t. 242. — Texas, where indigenous, 

 and occasional in waste places in Middle Atlantic States, where (like typical form) introd. 

 (Mex.) 



* * Flowers white or roseate, mostly larger. 



■i— Flowers more or less peduncled ; the bracts scattered upon the branches. 



A. alba, Lestib. Foliage much as in the last but less deeply sinuate and with more 

 numerous spine-tipped teeth : petals oblong, cuneate at the base : capsule armed with rather 

 numerous ascending or incurved spines. — Bot. Belg. ed. 2, iii. pt. 2, 133; Prain, 1. c. 329. 

 — S. Carolina, M. A. Curtis, to Florida, BucJcIeit, Nash, westward to Texas, Drummond, ace. 

 to Prain. (A variety in Sandwich Ids. and Polynesia ) 



^^ ^_ Flowers sessile or subsessile, the more or less closely subtending foliaceous bracts 

 being grouped toward the ends of the floriferous branches. 



A. intermedia, Sweet. Stout, very glaucous, moderately prickly with scattered stramine- 

 ous spines, otherwise smooth and without any minute setulous hispidity : leaves 5onc/n/s- 

 like, repand-toothed to sinuate-pinnatifid : flowers large : petals white or roseate : sepals 

 only sparsely spiny, and with horns usually quite unarmed and not even hispid : valves of the 

 capsule not firm nor thickened and only moderately spiny. — Hort. Brit. ed. 2, 58.5 ; Prain, 

 1. c. 363, with copious synonymy. A. alba, James in Long, Exp. Am. ed. i. 461 ; Kobin,son, 

 Syu. Fl. i. pt. 1, 88, in part; not Lestib. A. platj/ceras, at least in part, of many Am. 

 authors. — Kansas and Nebraska to Idaho, ^fiss Mulford, and southward to Texas and 

 Mexico. 



Var. corymbosa, A. Eastwood. Leaves obovate, subentire, or repand-toothed: 

 flowers somewhat regularly corymbous : petals small. — Erythea, iv. 96. A. conjmhosa, 

 Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. ii. 59. — Mohave Desert, Mrs. Curran. 



A. plat^^ceras, Link & Otto. More densely prickly, glaucescent : leaves sinuate-pinna- 

 tifid : triangular-lanceolate horns of sepals armed at least dorsally with spines and seta; : 

 petals obovate to reversed-deltoid with truncate summit : capsule-valves of firm texture, 

 very densely appressed-spiny, at length more or less indurated. — Ic. Ear. i. 85, t. 43 ; Prain, 

 1. c. 366, with synonymy. — Texas to S. California. (Mex) 



Var. hispida, Pkain, 1. c. 367. Whole plant densely setulous-hispid as well as armed 

 with stouter stramineous spines : petals obovate with rounded summit. — A. hispida. Gray, 



