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V. 



PLANTiE WRIGHTIAN.^ 



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caudice incrassato ; foliis primariis ovatis oblongisve subintegerrimis, sequcntibus ly 



fidis lobo terminali oblongo 



cis prgelongo ; capsulis sessi 

 minibus angulatis testa suber 

 in fruit. Also in the collect 



lineari-lanccolato ; tubo caly 



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t) 



l 



Between Western Texas and El Paso 



of 1851, in flower, and with 



of the 



preceding year. — The branching, creeping caudex is from one third to half an 

 inch in diameter. Leaves crowded, cinereous or canescent with a fine and close pu- 

 bescence, glabrate above with age, petioled ; the earlier oncs (as seen in the coll. 

 of 1851) mostly entire or repand, with the lamina two inches or less in leugth and 

 sometimes an inch wide ; the succeeding ones narrower aud mostly pinnatifid ; the 



toothed terminal lobe prolonged, 2-4 inches in length. Tube of the ca- 



section Pachylophis, as like- 



lyx 5 or 6 inches long, rather stout, much as in the 



tly, is the flower 



pt that the petals (18 lines long) 



been pale ycllow, changing to rose-color in fading. Capsules 



caudex, from half to three quarters of an inch in length, and nearly half an inch 



the 



diameter, of 



but blunt at the 



apcx 



rccly if 



at all reticulated, the sides broad and not at all ridged, the narrow wings or 



wing-Iike 

 apex, the 

 each cell. 



perfectly smooth and 



thickish, loculicidally 4-vaIved 



which 



thick and 



Seeds numerous, large, closely packed in two rows in 

 ' fill, strongly angled by mutual pressure ; tlie testa 



y, especially toward the chala 



y 



ated 



of thick double crest with a denticulate edge, which 



ly obliter- 



mature 



195. (E. (Meriolix) serrulata, S. spinulosa, Torr, 8f Gray^ Fl. 1. ». 502 



the 



ge-flowered form as No. 393, Pl. Lindhe 



Woods and prairies, Aus 



tin; May 



197. (E. (Meriolix v. Salpingia) tubicula (sp. nov.) : minutissime glanduloso- 



puberula, humilis ; caulibus sufl^ruticosis 

 oblongisve planis glabellis sessilibus intej 

 iis ovarioque vix 



fol 



fundibul 



duplo longioribus ; petalis orbiculato-obovatis ; capsulis cla\' 



inferiorib 



bped 



Prairies beyond 



Aug 



Al 



lia 



gathered in larger and much better specimens in the collection of 1851. — Stems 

 span to a foot high, bushy, at first erect, at length diffuse, puberulent, as is the fo- 

 ge, &c., with a very minute viscous glandulosity, nearly glabrous to thenakcdeye. 



Leaves from half an inch to an inch long 



one 



to th 



lines wide, bright 



gr 



Tube of 



than the broadly 



gula 



from one third to half an inch long 

 colate lobes, which are not carinat( 



ked 



lo 



. salient midne 

 Capsules half 



Petals 4 to 6 lines loi 

 inch long, not thicker 



» 



much dilated and roundish, \ 



Seeds 



oid 



packthread. 



- This species may as well be 



oblong, with a thin and smooth inappend 



referred to the section Meriolioc as to Salpingia, and indicates the proprietj 



vision of the genus, of admitting the lattcr as a subdivision only of Meriolix 



197 (p 



(E. TUBicuLA. var. demissa : magis puberula, omnmo mmor; pe 

 3 lin. longis) tubum calycis aequantibus. — On the Guadalupe Mountains 



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