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Nes^a LONGirEs, Grai/, Pl, Wright. p. 68. Comanclie Spring, Texas. (1371.) 



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EriLOBiuM coLoiiATi3r, MuJil. Heacl of the Limpio, in water; June. (1065.) 

 Zausciixeria CALiroRisicA, Presl^ Bel. HcenJc. 2. t. 52; Torr. 8^ Grai/, Fl. 1. p 



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CuPHEA ^Yrigiitii (sp. nov.) : annua ; caule gracili ramoso adscendente calyci- 

 busquc sctis rubellis subviscosis hispidis ; foliis oppositis longe petiolatis ovatis basi 

 rotundatis subacuminatis glabellis ; floribus plerisque racemosis ; pedicellis binis vel 

 ternis e singulis bracteis quorum superioribus alternis ; calyce basi subcalcarato, 

 fauce imberbi, dente postico multo majore ; petalis 6; staminibus 11; filamentis 

 basi pilosis ; ovario 3-ovulato. — Hills near Santa Cruz, Sonora ; Sept. (1064) 

 Stems 5 to 10 inches high, slender, sparingly branched. Leaves 8 to 12 lines long 

 on petiolcs of half their length, thin, with inconspicuous veins, not scabrous 

 Flowers solitary or 2 to 3 together in the axils of the upper leaves, and crowded ir 

 a tcrminal raceme; the upper bracts becoming minute, and chiefly alternate. Calyx |l 



about as long as the pedicels, 2} to 3 lines in length, shaped nearly as in C. visco- 

 sissima, cxcept that the upper tooth is proportionally larger, and the throat is not 

 bcarded within, purplish. Petals l^ line long, purple. Stamens included: anthers 

 glabrous. Style glabrous. Seeds smooth. 



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48G (fcre var. /9.). Pebbly bcd of moiintain streams near the San Pedro, Sonoi 

 Sept. (1372.) 



Z. Califor:^ica ; var. foliis glabellis brevibus oblongis vel ovato-oblongis e basi 

 lata sessilibus, inferioribus denticulatis, superioribus integerrimis ; floribus intense 

 rubris. — Pebbly bed of a mountain torrent on tlie New Mexican side of the Chiri- 

 cahui Mountains ; Sept. (1373.) — This variety of this very showy plant con- 

 siderably resembles the var. latifolia, Bot Mag. t 4493. 



CEnothera biennis, var. hirsutissima, Grai/, PL Fendl p. 43. Margin of Copr 

 permine Creek, New Mexico ; and on the Sonoita, Sonora. (1066.) 



CE. ALBiCALXis, Nutt ; var. . subcinerea, ramosissima, lignescens, sub]: 

 Graj/, PL Wriglit p. 69. — Sandy soil on the Rio Grande at Dona Ana, New Mexi- 

 00 ; July. (10G7.) — The same as No. 191 of the former collection. The seeds 



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are fusiform-cylindraceous and smooth, neither striate nor punctate (so tliat Nut- 

 tall's description of them, in Torr. 8; Grai/, FL N. Amer., must refer to those of QL. 

 coronopifolia). 



(E. ALBicAULTs ; var, 1 foliis oblongis sinuato-dentatis vel subpinnatifidis 

 puberulis vel glabratis ; rarais junioribus capsulis calycibusque hirsuto-vi' 

 Sandy bed of a creck near the copper mines, Aug. (1068.) — The flowers are 

 large; thc tube of the calyx and the petals being an inch long. The scarcely ma- 

 ture pods are rather short for this species ; but the seeds are oblong and perfcctly 

 smooth. The calyx in the bud is clothed with long villous hairs, in some specimens 

 very copiously ; so that this pLmt may be NuttalFs CE. trichocalyx. 



(Tu coRo.NoriioLL\, Torr. 8f Graij, Fl. 1. p. 495 ; Graj/, Pl Fcndl p. 43. Vallcys 

 near the copper mines, New Mexico ; Aug. (1069.) — A form with the pods longer 

 thau in Fendlefs No. 222 (1 - U inchcs long); but tlie seeds, as in that plant, are 



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