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PLANTJa WRIGHTIANJE. 



VI. 



Anotis, and Houstonia, with their purcly loculicidal dehiscence," constituting 



(( 



a 



which is the Hedyotis of Torrey 



Flora 



yy 



Moi 



name Oldcnlandia should have been preferred by the botanists who combincd the 

 whole into one genus, inasrauch as it has forty-four years' priority over Hedyotis, 

 and ten over Houstonia ; and Bentham has rightly restored it for the present genus. 



RUI3RA. Hedyotis rubra, Grai/, Pl Fendl, p. 61. Stony hills, 



O. (Houstonia) ruera. 

 from Santa Barbara to the c 



O. (HoUSTOMA) HU3IIFUS. 



Pl Wright. jh 82. On the Limp 

 O. A^s^GUSTiroLiA (Houstouia ar 



New Mexico ; July 



(1119.) 



Hedyotis humifusa, Grai/, Pl. Lindh. 2. p. 216 



^-^ 



tifolia, Michx.) 



Hedj 



stenophylla 



var. parviflora, etc, Gray, Pl. Wright p. ^X. Eocky hills, near Eagle Sp 



June 



(1390.) 



* 



MiTRACARPIUM BREV1FL0RU3I 



subtetrasono ; foliis lanceolatis 



( 



annuum, glabriusculum ; caule erecto 



sessilibus; stipulis parce hispid 



alv 



laciniis 2 



maj 



subulatis corolla subduplo lon 



6 



2 



hyalinis multo minor 



Mountain ravines and hill 



w 



Santa Cruz, So 



nora; Sept 



(1120.) 



Stems 2 to 6 inches high 



Leaves about an inch long, 



li to 3 lines wide, usually four subtending the terminal capitulum, B 



)us. Calyx almost glabrous ; the two large teeth canc 



small 



hyalinc, setaceous, glabrous. 



late, soon rccurved-spreading, rigid, a line and a half 1 



sembling interposed stipules, usually considerably shorter than the tubular-funnel- 



form coroUa, which is white, glabrous, and seldom a line in length. Dehiscence 



and secds as in M. Schizangium. — The shortness of the corolla and the shape of 



the leaves anpear to distiniiuish this from Bentham's M. lineare. 



Crusea Wrightii (sp 



lanceolatis 



hirtello-scab 



): annua; caule subreverse hirsutulo tereti; foliis 

 lis nervis utrinque 3-4, floralibus 4-8 capitulum 



laxifloruitt terminale involucrantibus basi dilatatis et hispido 



caly 



subulatis corollae purpureae tubum subsequantibus. Prairies, near Santa Cruz, So 



nora; Sept 



(1121.) 



Stems 3 to 10 inches hish, slender, terete, not in the 



& 



angled, sparingly branched. Primordial 

 ceolate or linear-lanceolate, 12 to 20 lint 



subrotund. sm 



the others lan- 



lonir and 2 or 3 broad, narrowed at the 



t3 



• 



Wright 



until now received sufficient specimens to characterize it. 



Oldexlandia stjbviscosa ( Wright. in hcrl.) : annua, minutim viscoso-hirtella ; caule tenello ramoso ; 

 ramis divaricatis ; foliis linearibus imisve sublanceolatis acutis basi attenuatis ; fioribus terminalibus nunc 

 alaribus et pseudo-lateralibus solitariis pedunculo jequilongis ; corolla minima (albida) hypocraterimorpha, 

 tubo calycem viscoso-hirtellum 4-fidum adaequante lobis obovatis longiore ; capsula didyma ad apicem 



liberum transvcrsim loculicida. 

 sandy post-oak woods ; May. 



Between La Grange and Lockhart Springs, Fayette County, Texas, in 



Plant 3 to 5 inches high, slcnder, divaricately branchcd, with a flower in 



each fork. Leaves half an inch long, half a line, or the lowest a line, in width, sessile, mostly shortcr 



Stipules triangular or ovate, minute, scarious. Pedicels slender, U to 2 hnes long, 



tha 



often recurved or spreading in fruit. Lobes of the deeply 4-cIeft calyx lanceolate-subulate, in fruit as 

 ' ' ■ ' Corolla a line or a line and a half in length; the limb 4-lobed. Capsule membrana 



tube 



ceous, subglobosc, didymous, a line and a half in length, somowhat greater in width, loculicidal across 

 the top, which alone is frce from thc calyx ; the cells 10-seeded. Seeds mcniscoid, smooth. 



