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bridge, where it is perfectly hardy. The root, as in all the species, is Jarge and napi- 
form or conical. 
rum obtusis superiorum lanceolatis acutis ; stipulis ovatis majusculis ; pedunculis axillaribus solitariis unifloris 
folio longioribus ; involucelli phyllis lanceolatis calycis laciniis lanceolatis attenuato-acuminatis dimidio brevi- 
oribus ; carpellis (circ, 20) rotundatis undique rugoso-reticulatis apice incurvo complanato brevissime rostella- 
tis omnino clausis. — Gray, Gen. Ill. 2. t. 217, ined. Nuttallia involucrata, Nutt. ex Torr. in Ann. Lyc. 
N. Y. 2. p. 172. Malva involucrata, Torr. §- Gray, Fl. 1. p. 226. — Plains, from the Platte to Texas and 
west to the Rocky Mountains. —I have for several years had this handsome species in cultivation in the 
Cambridge Botanic Garden, from seeds taken from specimens gathered by Col. Fremont. It forms a very 
large root, which stands the winter well in the open air. The showy flowers are cherry-red with a tinge of 
purple, deeper colored and one third smaller than in C. Papaver, and are produced from spring until late in 
autumn. On prolonged flowering stems the upper leaves are abortive, and a membranaceous bract, formed 
of the two united stipules, subtends the peduncle. 
§ 2. Evcaturernois. Involucellum nullum, vel in M. Papavere 3-1-phyllum sepeque a flore pl. m. 
remotum. Carpella rostro subuncinato viridi atque processu interno conspicuo donata. Pedunculi uniflori, 
apicem versus szepe articulati. 
, * Involucellum 1-3-phyllum, nunc in eadem stirpe nullum. 
3. C. Papaver: strigoso-hirsutula ; caulibus e radice tuberosa adscendentibus gracillimis; foliis radicali- 
bus subcordatis 3 —5-fidis lobis oblongis paucidentatis, caulinis digitato-5 —3-partitis, laciniis lineari-lanceolatis 
plerumque integerrimis ; pedunculis axillaribus longissimis remotis ; calycis laciniis — hispidis ovato-lance- 
olatis attenuato-acuminatis ; carpellis rugoso-reticulatis glabris rostro brevi-incuryo. apiculatis clausis. — Malya_ 
Papaver, Cav. Diss. 2. p. 64. t. 15. f.3; Torr. §& Gray, Fl. 1. p. 226 (excl. syn. me C. triangul. citat.). 
M. nuttallioides, Croom in Sill. Jour. 26. p. 313. Nuttallia Papaver, Graham in Bot. Mag. t. 3287 ; Hook. 
in Jour. Bot. 1. c. — Florida and Georgia to Texas, Arkansas, &c. Not rare in cultivation. Petals violet- 
red, an inch and a half long. : 
* * Involucellum omnino nullum. 
4. C. picrrata (Nutt.): glabriuscula, subglauca; caulibus adscendentibus gracillimis; foliis digitato- 
5—'7-partitis, laciniis linearibus prelongis integerrimis rariusve 2 -3-fidis, supremis simplicioribus ; pedun- 
culis axillaribus longissimis; calycis laciniis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis; carpellis dorso pilosulis, caet. ut in 
C. Papavere; floribus minoribus. — Nutt. in Jour. Acad. Philad. 2. p. 181. N uttallia digitata, Hook. Exot. 
Fl. 3. t. 171, non Bart. Malva digitata, Torr. §- Gray, 1. c. — Prairies of Arkansas and Texas. Not well 
known. The fruit is smaller, and the beak of the carpels rather longer, than in the last, but smaller than in 
the following, from which it also differs i in the arc a carpels, and in being less crested on the back, at 
the origin of the beak. rath lath, , bier ht 
5, C. pepata: caule glabro erecto; foliis radicalibus imisque 5-7-fidis rotundatis, superioribus 3— 5- 
partitis, segmentis laciniato-lobatis vel incisis, supremorum integriusculis seu integerrimis ; pedunculis panicu- 
lato-racemosis vel corymbosis, calycis glabri laciniis acuminatissimis ; carpellis levibus glabris dorso ad 
originem rostri maximi cristato-3-crenatis e basi subdehiscentibus. — Gray, Gen. Ill. 2. t.218. Nuttallia pedata, 
Nutt. in Hook. Exot. Fl. 3, t. 172. N. digitata, Bart. Fl. N. Amer. 2. t. 162, quoad tab. Malva pedata, 
Torr. & Gray, 1. c. excl. 8.— Prairies of Arkansas, near Fort Smith, &c., Nuttall. Texas, Lindheimer. 
Cultivated in the Cambridge Garden from Texan seeds, where it flowers the first year like an annual, but also 
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