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PLANT^ WRIGHTIAN^. 



TI. 



QL. TRILOBA, Nl 



GroT/, Pl Wrinht. p. 70. Valley betw 



Lakc Santa Maria, Chilmal 



Ap 



(1375.) 



This 



specie 



the Salado ancl 

 as never before 



been found in the New Mexican rcg 



CE. (PACHYLoniis'?) rRiMiYERis (sp. nov.) ; acaulescens, pygma^a, annua vel bien- 

 5 ; radice exili ; foliis lyrato-pinnatifidis vel primordialibus integris lanceolato-ob- 

 igis ad margines costamque cum calyce villoso-pubescentibus ; tubo calycis filiformi 



is : caDSulis ovoideo-conicis 



lobis (pctala flava subaequantibus) multoties longiorib 



chalazam sub 



Dry hills near El Paso, Feb. - April. 



(1376.) 



This little plant evidently springs 



ones attain the length of 3 or 4 inches ; 

 inches long. 



from the seed in the autumn, or evcn in the winter, and flowers at the first opening 

 of spring. Some of the specimens are barely an inch high ; the leaves of the larger 



and the tube of the calyx is one or two 

 The petals, from 5 to 8 lines long, are pure yellow, not turning pur- 

 plish. Anthers linear, fixed by the middle. Lobes of the stigma linear, distinct. 

 Capsule 8 or 10 liiics long, tapering from near the base to the apex, terete, some- 

 ^/hat hirsute, coriaccous ; the ribs filiform, equal, not crested nor tuberculate. 

 Seeds vciy numerous and biserial in each cell, oval, with a thick and rather corky 



and 



short appendage at the chalaza. The plant is strictly acaulescent and probably 



testa, somewhat rugose, grooved along the rhaphe, and enlarged into a thick 



disappcars by the end of spring. 



The leaves become glabrate. 



Strictly speaking, 



this belongs to a new section analogous to Pachylophis. 



CE. (Salpingia) LAVANDUL.EFOLIA, TorT, §* Grai/ ; Gray, Pl. WrigliU p. 72. 

 Prairies on the Pecos ; June. (1074.) 



CE. Hartv^zgi, Benth. ; var. caulibus elongatis ; foliis lanceolato-linearibus, Grai/, 

 Pl Wright.p. 72. Stony hills of the Pecos; June. (1075.) 

 Xo. 198; passing into 



Same 



as Wrighfs 



CE. Hartwegi, var. Fendleki; major, foHis lanceolatis et oblongo-lanccolatis. 



(E. Fendleri, Gray, Pl. Fendl.p. 45. Declivities, on the Sabinal, Western Texas, 

 May. (1076.) 



(E. TUBicuLA, Grai/, Pl. Wright. p. 71. Valley of the Pecos and toward the 

 Limpio, inalluvial soil; June. (1077.) 



O^, (Srn.ERosTiGMA) cHAM.iiNERioiDES (sp. nov.) : anuua vel biennis, glabella ; caule 

 humili tcncro e basi ramoso ; foliis oblongis seu lanceolatis rcpandis subsessilibus, 

 radicahbus subspathulatis in petiolum attenuatis ; iloribus racemosis primum con- 

 fertis par\as purpurascentibus ; tubo calycis infundibuliformi lobis subduplo ovario 



multoties 



longiore 



petalis spathulato-oblongis 



integcrrimis 



calycem stylumque 



sequantibus ; capsulis elongatis filiformibus rectis sessilibus. — Stony hills along the 



Rio Grande near El Paso; March. (1377.) — Plant a span, or at length 9 or 10 

 inches high, erect, or the side branches from the base ascending, with whoUy the as- 

 pect of a small Epilobium ; the branchcs slightly viscous-pubescent. Radical leavcs 

 Ijf to 2 inches long, 3 to 5 lines wide; the cauline smaller ; the later floral linear- 

 subulate, much shorter than thc ovary, and likc it pruinose-puberulent. Calyx- 

 tube scarcely a line and a half long. Petals less than a line long. Stigma large, 



Pods li to 2 inchcs long, filiform, tercte, half a linc in diameter, erect- 



globular. 



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