V. 



PLANT^ WRIGHTIAN^. 



69 



additional flower 



Petals three lines long. Stamens almost equally inserted 



bottom of the calyx, scarcely unequal in length, not exceeding the pe 



form, much 



Style fili 



From the section Ile 



plant difFers only in its pur 



ple fiowers, elongated peduncles, and herbaceous habit ; from Decodon 



tary hexamer 



flowers. and 



equal and equally inserted stamens 



from 



NescBa proper, in the one-flowered peduncle with small bracts, in which i 

 however, as in its foliage and tendency to bear three flowers on the pedui 

 agrees with N. Candollei, Guill. 8f Perrotet* 



187. Lythrum alatum, var. linearifolium, Gray, Pl. Lindh. 2. p. 188. 

 grounds, Western Texas ; May. — The petals are smaller than in Lindheimcr 



.r" 



Low 



(which occurs again 



of 1850). L. flexuosum, Laq 



(L. Grsef- 



feri, Tenore)^ perliaps belongs to the same species 



\ 



188- L 



PUMILUM, Gray^ PL LindL L c. 



Nueces. in shallow 



water. — L. flagellare, Shuttleworth^ Pl Pugel^ No. 232, from Florida, is interme 

 diate between this and the var. ovalifolium, Ph LmdL L c. 



Epilobium 



ONAGRACE^. 



Muhh in Willd. Enum. \. p. 411. Along the Limpi 



- 



August 



189. (Enothera 



I 



Torr. 



Gray, Fl. 1. «. 693 ; Gray, Pl. Lindh. 2 



189 



Along the San Pedro River ; also found eastward as far as to Austin 



The 



wild plant is from four to six feet high, and with flowers as large as the cultiTated 



viz. five inches in diameter 

 190. CE. BiENNis. Liim., 



Along the Limp 



This is the same strig 



hirsute variety as No. 218, Pl. Fendl, a form which is common in Oregon and 



along the Rocky Mountains. 



(E. BiFRONS, Don, in Sweet Brit Fl Gard. 4. t 386; Hook. Bot Mag. t 3764. 



CE. heterophylla, Spach, Onagr. p. 28 



Plains of Western 



this 



needs belong No. 56, Pl Lindk, referred to (E. rhombipetala, from which it difFers 

 in the broad and somewhat cordate bracteal leaves and more or less obtuse petals. 

 It accords with No. 74 of Dnimmond's third Texan coUection; but the lower leaves 

 incline to be pinna'tifid, as they strikingly are in No. 53 of Drummond's second col- 

 lection, which is the CE. heterophylla of Spach. 



191. Q^. ALBICAULIS, Nutt, 



Fras. Cat 



Gen 



P 



245 



foliis sinuato- seu pinnatifido-dentatis ; caule lignescente ramosissimo 



Var. subcinerea; 



Valley of 



the Rio Grande, 60 



7 



miles below El Paso, in sandy soil ; Oct 



I emplov the 



oldest name of a very polymorphous species, which also varie 

 and duration ; flowering sometimes as a low annual, and again 

 at the base and branching copiously, it apparently endures for 



period 



The same species, but with 



toothed leaves, is CE. pinnatifida, Gray, Pl Fendl 



p. 44 (No. 224), where some remarks are made upon the extent of the species, which 



# 



Nes^a (Heimia) sallcifolla was gatliered by Dr. Gregg in Northern Mexico, from Camargo to Mon- 

 terey and Queretaro. 



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