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50 



PLANT^ WRIGHTIAN^ 



V 



and many of them as large, as those of the A. paniculat 



but they have 



* 



the prommentVems underneath, and the iiowers are three times larger. It is plamly 

 a pubescent variety of the "glabrous and very smooth" A. paniculata, Nutt, excel- 

 lent specimens of which have just come to hand in Lindheimer's coUection of 1850 

 In these the leaflets are all deeply retuse, or almost obcordate, from 12 ' 

 long ; in one specimen they are elliptical 



18 lines 



ly oblong 



another they 



broad and rounded, the larger ones over an inch in width. The spikes and dark 



purple flowers are much larger than in A. fcuticosa : 



var. subglabra," from Fredericksburg 



the fruit 



To this 



species 



must belong 



the 



(( 



A. fruticosa 



X Glycirrhiza lepidota, Nutt. Gen. 2. p. 106 



Torr 



Pl. Lindh. 2. «. 174. 



Graj/, Fl. 1. p. 298 ; 



Gray, Pl. Fendlp. 31. G. glutinosa, Nutt. in Torr. Sf Gray, Fl. l c. New Mex- 



A.11 the specimens I have seen, from whatever locality, have the 



coll. of 185 

 pikes considerably shorter than the leaves, and accord 



ith the character of G 



glutinosa, Nutt.y which I suppose is not different from G. lepidot 



135. Medicago 



L 



Old fields near El Paso : introduced 



136. Trifolium Bejariense, Moricand, Pl. Nouv. Amer. p. 2. t. 2. T. macr 



al> 



Hook. li 



Pl 



215 



Torr 



Gray, Fl. 1. «. 691 



Western Texas 



Austin, &c. 



137. HOSACKIA 



Benih. Pl. Hartw. p. 305. — Valley of the Limpia 



Aug. 



The specimens accord with Coulter's, from Zacatecas 



PETERIA, Nov. Gen. 



Calyx ebracteolatus, tubulosus, quinquelobus, lobis subulatis, duobus superioribus 



nnatum, recurvum, alis oblongis obtusis 



altius coaUtis. Vexillum obovatum, emar 



longe unguiculatis sequilongum : carina cuculHformis, obtusissima, alis brevior 



Stamina 10, filamento vexillari libero diadelpha. Ovarium Imeare, stipitatum, mul 



tiovulatum. 



Stylus filiformis, adscendens, apice dense aspergillo-barbatus : stigma 

 barbatum. Legumen lineare, plano-compressum, breviter stipitatum, im- 



marginatum, continuum, ssepius abortu 



gospermum 



valvis coriaceis. Semina 



ovalia, compressa. — Herba glabrata ; caulibus e basi sufFrutescente ramosissimis. 

 mis scopariis teretibus gracilUmis ; stipulis spinosis ; petiolis iiliformibus persiste: 

 bus, aliis aphyllis, aliis foliolis plurimis parvis oblongis gerentibus ; racemis virg 

 dissitifloris erectis ramulos terminantibus ; floribus pendulis flavidis. 

 138. Peteria 



Aug. ; in fruit. 



Also in the collection of 1 85 1 ; 

 north of Chihuahua, Wislizenus. No. 126 



Mountain valleys beyond the pass of the Limpia 



^51 ; in flower. Also uear Lake Enci 



Stems 2 or 3 fect high 



glaucescent, much branched and bushy. Stipules a pair of divaricate prickles, 2 or 

 3 lines long. The persistent petioles are from 2 to 4 inches long, fihform, slender, 



)us : the 



late 



indurated nor spinescent, all the upper ones on many specimens aphyllous ; 



irs usually bearing from 9 to 15 small leaflets. These are eUiptical or lan 



, petiolulate, mucronate, from one to three lines long, when young more or 



entlj pubescent 



are 



slender, 8 



young branches and cal\ 



Kacemes 



12 inches long, very sparsely flowered. Pedicels 3 to 5 lines 



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