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PLANT.E WRIGHTIAN^. 



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21. ToN 



VIOLACEiE. 



LiNEARE, Torr. in Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New YorJc^ 2. p. 168 



For 



Torr. 8r Grai/, Fl. 1. p. 145 ; Gray, Gen. Ill 1. t 82, §* Pl Lindh. 2. j5. 151 



ma normalis Torreyi, multiceps, humilis ; foliis omnibus angustis 



itis 2 - 3-pollicaribus ; stipulis pleri 



majoribus 



etiam linearib 



feriorib 

 flower 



minutis 

 d fruit. 



el lanceolatis 

 Declivities 

 The numerous 

 row and slender 



par 



along 



the San Pedr 



DeviFs River; July 



cimens are only a span high, from 



5 



of Lindheimer's No. 344 



carcely longer, however, than the upper 

 principally alternate. Marked as this 



form is, it is too clearly connected with the next to admit of a specific separation 



22. I 



Torr. ; var. stipulis majusculis ; foliis plerisque linearibus, imis 



obovatis. — L stipulaceum, JS 



Western T 



23. I 



May 



T 



var. PLATYPHYLLUM : magis puberulura ; caulibus 



esquipedalibus ; foliis oblon 



4-6 lin. latis rariter serratis. 



of the Limpia or Wild Kose Creek ; Aug. 



Valley 

 This appears to be widely difFerent 

 from No. 21, but I cannot regard it as other than the opposite extreme of the same 

 species, which varies greatly as to the foliage. 



ELATINACE^. 



24. Elatine Texana, Hook. Ic. Pl. t. 278 (sub "Merimea seu Burgia"); Grai/, 



mucronate leaves, the remarkably long stipe, and the conspicuous style ; while the upper bracts seem to 

 be uniformly siniple. Seeds the same as in C. Mexicana. 



3. C. oBTUsiFOLiA (Torr. & Frera.) : foliolis cuneato-obovatis obtusissimis integerrimis supra glabris 

 subtus pubescentibus ; bracteis unifoliolatis ; sepalis lacerato-3 - 5-dentatis ; ovario stipite 4 - 5-tie"s brc- 



viore stylo bis breviore ; capsula . . . . 



<5- Frem. in Frem. Second Report, p. 311. 



Hab. 



On the American Fork of the Sacramento River, California ; flovvering in March, Colonel Fremont. 

 My only specimen of this species is that of an annual, about a span high, but doubtless much larger when 

 mature. The stem is branched from the base, and glabrous. The leaflets are about half an inch long, 

 and are tipped wilh a deciduous bristle. Stipulcs laciniately fimbriate. Calyx much shorter than the 

 corolla. Petals yellovv, oblong-lanceolate. Stipe much exserted. Ovary obovate, with apparenlly but 



few (about 6) ovules. Capsule unknown. 



Wislizenia of Engelmann (In Wislizenus^s Report on New 



This speclcs in its fimbriate stipules and long ityle resem- 



It vvas named 



when the only Cleomella known to our botanists was the narrow-Ieaved one described below. Were it not 

 possible that it may prove to be a distinct genus (which can be told only when the frult is known), I 

 should propose to call it C. Fremontii. 



4. C. ANGUSTIFOLIA : foliolls oblongo-linearibus acutiusculis integerrimis ; bracteis supcrioribus simpli- 

 cibus i^ovario stylum multoties superante stipite bis terve breviore ; capsula dilatato-rhomboidea acuta ; 



^ Mexicana, Torr. in Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. New York,2. p. 167- 



seminibus transverse rugulosis. 



Hook. Ic. 1. t. 28 ; 



&■ Gr. Fl. N 



Nat 



Gray, 



Mr 



Western 



4- 



On the 



, ^'^" ^^'^P«' Texas, Brummond. High prairies west of Houston, Lindheimer 



LDon s account of Cleornella Mexicana, from original specimens, in the journal above cited, sufficcs to 



identify the Candollean species with the Mexican plant gathered by Dr. Halsted. Had not this account 



been overlooked, the mistake in respect to the Arkansan and Texan plant would have been !on<. since 



corrected. I have also the true C. Mexicana from Coulter^s Mexican collection. A second species\hich 



do not possess, recorded in Professor Harvey's list as Cleomella Coulteri, n. sp., is/frobably the C 



longipes, characterlzed above. 



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