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PLANT^ WRIGHTIAN^ 



Y 



Oct 



proportionally 



Stems 3 or 4 inclies high. Leaves only 4 to 6 lines long ; the ilow 



also 



Evidently, however, only a reduced form of the foregoing 



(E. (Salpingia) Hartwegi, Bentk Pl Hartw. p. 1 



On the Eio Grande, Tex 



valleys east of El Paso ; Aug 



Abundant 



the collection of 



Flowers as large as those of Hartweg's plant (the petals from three fourths 



; calyx-tube about an inch and a half long) ; the stems 

 gated and suffruticose, from a span to a foot high, erect. The specimens 



1851. 



of an inch to an inch lon 



b 



pass into 



198. CE. Hartwegi, var. 

 1-3 lin. latis. (Prairies 

 passcs into (E. Fendleri, with oblong-lanceolate leaves, abundantly gathered in the 



caulibus elongatis diffusis; foliis lanceolato-linearibus, 



in turn apparently 



on the Sabinal 



And this 



+ 

 + 



Jt 



ction of 1851, indicating a species of as diverse forms as (E 

 (E. (Salpingia) lavandul^folia, 



B 



P 



223 



VANDUL^FOLiA, Torr. Sf Gray^ Fl. 1. p. 501 ; Hooh. Lond. 

 Between Western Texas and El Paso ; coll. of 1 85 1 ; in 



beautiful flowering specimens. — The fasciculate-clustered erect stems are from two 

 or three inches to a span high ; and the hoary leaves (of the hue of those of lav- 

 ender) are much crowded, often fascicled, and with revolute margins. The petals 



than in (E. Hartwegi, from 6 to 8 lines in length 



196. (E 



caulibus spithamseis et ultra ; foliis glabratis 



Prair 



of Live Oak Creek, Western Texas ; June 



Plant from 6 to 12 



high 



Tends to connect (E. lavandulsefolia with (E. Hartweg 



199. (E. (Salpingia) Greggii, Gray^ Pl. Fendl. p. 46, adnot. ; 

 pilis mollibus patentibus villosa. — Dry hills beyond the Pecos ; Aug. 

 woody, rather stout, a span to a foot high. Leaves oblong, 2-4 lines long 



lines long. Petals 4-6 lines long. Capsules hairy, 4 - 6 li 



Var. PUBESCENS 



tube 



15 



Stems 

 Calyx- 

 3 long, 

 cylindraceous, thickish. 



200. LuDwiGiA natans, EU. Sk 1. p. 581 ; Grai/, Pl. Lindh. 2. p. 190. In the 

 Leona and San Felipe ; July, Aug. 



201. Proserpinaca palustris. Linn. 



nn. In the Rio Nueces ; June 

 202. Mtriophyllum heterophyllum, Michx. : var. foliis emersis i 



Tur 



Prairies of Live Oak 



key Creek, Texas ; June. 



203. Gaura sinuata, Nutt. in DC. Prodr. 3. p. 44. 

 Creek and the San Pedro Hiver ; June, July. 



204. G. suFFULTA, Engelm. in Pl Lindh. 2. p. 190. Hills along the Rio Frio 



3 specimens, is either acute or obtuse 



Texas ; June 



The fruit, as in Lindheimer 



usually the latter when fully ripe, and the sides 



Drummond's third Texan 



mostly even. No. 82 of 



(from San Felipe) is the same species 



The 



tetramerous and the fruit tetraquetrous, in the specimens of the Hook 



erian herbarium : but in 



of Mr. Webb's herbarium I observed both 



as I 



sus- 



quetrous and triquetrous fruit, even on the same specimen, and 



pected, the plant referred to G. tripetala by Spach ; of which our plant is, I suppose 



only a pretty constantly tetramerous variety. 



Plantes, from seeds gathered by M. Trecul. 



It has been raised in the Jardin des 



205. G. tripetala, (Jav. Ic. 4. p. 66. t. 396. Pr 



along the Rio Brazos 



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