V. 



PLANTJa WRIGHTIANiE. 



107 



L. PEDUNcuLARis, var. picta; pube molliore strigulcso-cincrca; foliis lp*ato 



pinnatipartitis, segmentis 



7, terminali nunc obovato obtuso dentibus 



ovato pinnatifido seu laciniato dentibusque acutatis ; ligulis br 



b 



purp 



Coast of tlie Gulf of Mexico (near Galvcstou "?), Texas 



Differs from the preceding as L. columnaris, var. pulcherrima docs from the normal 

 state of that species ; and also in the much less dissected leaves, clothcd wlth a 

 softer and more cinereous pubescence. 



Yet I conceive it to be 



I 



have had both forms in cultivation from Mr. Wrig 



na"kcd ped 



feet long 



328. Heliomeris 



The root is, I bclieve, annual or bicnnial 

 ,A, Nutt. in Jour. Acad. (n. ser.) \. p, 171 



171; Graif, Pl. 



Fendl. p. 84. Mountain valley, 30 miles east of El Paso ; Oct. — The samc as 

 Gambeirs and Fendler's plant. The shorter-leaved variety found by Frcmont was 

 also gathered by Burke in the Rocky Mountains. 



329. H. TENUiFOLiA, Grai/, Pl Fendl. p. 84, ad?iot. Rocky cliffs of Turkey 

 Creek, June ; and valley beyond the Pecos, Aug. 



Also in the coll. of 



Stcm 



4 



branches only herbaceous 



330. S 



(Barrattia) calva, Cmy, Pl Lindli. 2. p. 228 



Hills near Austin 



Turkey Creek, Texas ; June 



The root is tuber 



331. S 



DC. Frodr. 5. p. 577; Bentk Pl. Ilat 



no. 145 : var. 



glabrior; acheniis sericeis demum glab 

 Paso : 



Vallc) 



mountains cast of 1 



Lso ; Sept 

 332. ViG 



Rays very short 



(sp. nov.) : caule erecto hispido 



foliis 



scaberrimis cordatis acutis subsessilibus obsolete 



t3 



omnibus 



oppositis ; panicul 



mbosa nuda oligocephal 



b 



acuminatis, exterioribus brevioribus hispidulis, interioribus glab 



ulis paucis b 



achen 



receptaculo planiusculo ; palcis lance 

 Plains at the base of the Guadalupe 



cuspidatis ; 



fine spr 



Oct 



Lea\ 



an inch long. 

 gently pointed 



.^---^ , --.. Stem two or three feet high, stout, leafy to the top. 

 about threelnches long and two in width, acute or acuminate, strongly threc-ribbed 

 at the base, veiny, very rough. Peduncles an inch or less in length. Heads half 



PalefB of the receptacle as long as the disk-flowers, smooth, pun- 

 Awns of the pappus paleaceous, subulate, nearly as long as the 

 achenium ; the short palc^ two or three interposed on each side, truncate, denticu- 

 late or incised. — Evidently related to V. sessilifolia, DC. 



To Simsia also belongs, I believe, the Helianthus amplexicaulis, DC. I Frodr. 5 p. 5S9. Thc^pe- 

 cies are not well defined : but the subjoined appears to be an exceedingly well-marked new species : 



SiMSiA SANGUINEA (sp. nov.) : parce hispida ; caule ramoso, ramis gracilibus ohgoccphahs ; folns ere 

 omnibus aUernis basi auriculata sessilibus scabris, caulinis trilobis lobis dentat.s. ^^"^-^l'^^^^"^^^^^ 

 linearibus integerrimis ; involucri squamis lanceolato-subulatis caudato-aeuminat.s ; l'g"l'«J«- ^^ ''^^:'-^ 

 sanguineis ; paleis receptaculi cuspidatis corollisque disci apice ruba> tinctis ; achenus «bc-dato-ovahbus 

 planisbreviterl-2.ari:tatis.-Mountains,Mexico (in the temperate ^f ")' ^'""^'■"!^'' ^ 

 sp. herb. Mus. Par.) : also collected by Galeotti. - The heads are f '^ »^^^^ ^,'^,!"^ '" fXTio n^ 

 scales of the involucre glandular-scabrous and very sparingly hispid ; the deep red ''g^^- [^; " ^ -^^^- 

 Achenia two or three lines long, appressed-pubescent, soon nearly glabrous, flat wmgless ; the awns small, 

 terete, one of them usually a line long, the other shorter, often very short or obsolete. 



