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the Rio del Norte ; May. — ^Corolla often 2 inches in diameter, pure white turning to 

 rose-color. Some of the specimens are only two or three inches high, and just beginning 

 to blossom ; the radical leaves oblong or spatulate and entire: others are a foot high, 

 with widely spreading or decumbent branches; the leaves deeply sinuate-pinnatifid or 

 incised ; the lobes mostly triangular or lanceolate, acute. The calyx is merely canescent, 

 or sprinkled with a few hirsute hairs. The capsules are longer and more slender than in 

 any allied species (an inch long, quadrangular, Null.), frequently an inch and a half or 

 even two inches in length and of the same diameter (one line) throughout, truncate, pris- 

 matic, porrected, or at length declined or contorted. Seeds oblong, smooth, small. 



224. CE. pinnatifida, var. integrifolia. Santa Fe, and along the Cimarron, in 

 gravelly soil or sand ; June to August. — The leaves are oblong or lanceolate, often con- 

 spicuously mucronate, repand-dentieulate, or with here and there a distinct salient tooth, 

 both sides more or less canescent with a minute appressed pubescence. The flowers, 

 and the elongated, slender, prismatic capsules, are just as in no. 223 ; of which it is no 

 doubt a variety, and to which it sustains the same relation that CE. humifusa, Nutt., and 

 CE. minima, Pursh, do to CE. sinuata (Torr. §• Gray, Fl. 1. p. 494). Precisely the same 

 form was gathered on the Platte in Fremont's first expedition ; and on one specimen I 

 notice that the petals, instead of turning uniformly reddish or in blotches with age or in 

 drying, are minutely punctate with red dots. While some forms gathered in Fremont's 

 third expedition pass by their foliage directly into the ordinary CE. pinnatifida (although, 

 indeed, they sometimes exhibit running or horizontal roots), others, with narrower leaves, 

 appear to run into CE. albicaulis, Nutt. ; and still others, becoming nearly or quite gla- 

 brous and smooth, make a perfect transition into CE. pallida, Lindl., the narrow-leaved 

 forms of which I cannot distinguish from CE. albicaulis. 



f225. CE. speciosa, Nutt. Near Council Grove, &c. ; August. 



f226. CE. fruticosa, Linn.; var. Council Grove ; August. 

 227. CE. canescens, Torr. £• Frem.! in Frem. 2d Exped. p. 315. (CE. guttulata, 

 Geyer in Hook. Lond. Jour. Bot. 6. p. 222 ?) Sand Creek (of the Cimarron) at the 

 margin of a low, swampy place ; Sept. — Plant a span high, with the foliage and some- 

 what the aspect of a Gaura ; the leaves minutely strigose-canescent, half an inch long, 

 oblong-lanceolate or linear, entire or obscurely toothed. The wiry stems are very leafy to 

 the top. Calyx-tube slender, three fourths of an inch long, purplish, thrice the length of 

 the ovoid canescent ovary, less than twice the length of the calyx-tube. Petals broadly 

 obovate, entire, two thirds of an inch long, white, with some of each flower conspicu- 

 ously spotted or blotched with rose-purple. Anthers linear. Divisions of the stigma 

 linear, slender. Capsule sessile, canescent, one fourth of an inch long, and almost as 



