466 SUPPLEMENT. 



SARRACENIACE^. 



2. DARLINGT6NIA, To 



rr. 



D. Californica, Torr., p. 81. Add. syn. Chrysamphora Californica, Greene, Pittonia, 

 ii. I'Jl. 



PAPAVERACE^. 



8. ARGEMONE, Tourn. Add lit. Prain, Jour. Bot. xxxiii. 207-200, 

 307-312, 325-333, 363-371 ; Eastwood, Erythea, iv. 93-96. In the light of 

 Pram's admirable revision, our species may be treated as follows : — 



# Flowers orange, yellow, or at least ochroleucous, mostly small for the genus. 



A. MexicIna, L. Moderately prickly upon stem, sepals, cap.sules, as well as margins and 

 midribs of otherwise smooth and glaucescent coarsely sinuate-pinnatifid leaves : flowers sub- 

 sessile or short-peduuded : petals obovate, orange-colored or more commonly lemon-yellow, 

 an inch or less in length : stigma sessile. — Spec. i. 508 ; Prain, 1. c. 308, where coj)ious synon- 

 ymy is duly cited. — Common in waste places especially in the Atlantic and Gulf States. 

 (Introd. from Mex., W. Ind., S. Am., and extensively nat. in warmer parts of Old 

 Worhl.) 



Var. ochroleuca, Lindl. Petals ochroleucous: style evident. — Bot. Eeg. t. 1343; 

 Prain, 1. c. 310. .4. ochroleuca, Sweet, Brit. Fl. Gard. iii. t. 242. — Texas, where indigenous, 

 and occasional in waste places in Middle Atlantic States, where (like typical form) introd. 

 (Mex.) 



* * Flowers white or roseate, mostly larger, 

 -t— Flowers more or less peduncled ; the bracts scattered upon the branches. 



A. alba, Lestib. Foliage much as in the last but less deeply sinuate and with more 

 numerous spine-tipped teeth : petals oblong, cuneate at the base : capsule armed with rather 

 numerous ascending or incurved spines. — Bot. Belg. ed. 2, iii. pt. 2, 133; Prain, 1. c. 329. 

 — S. Carolina, M. A. Curtis, to Florida, Buckley, Nash, westward to Texas, Drummond, ace. 

 to Prain. (A variety in Sandwich Ids. and Polynesia.) 



H- ^_ Flowers sessile or subsessile, the more or less closely subtending foliaceous bracts 

 being grouped toward the ends of the floriferous branches. 



A. intermedia, Sweet. Stout, very glaucous, moderately prickly with scattered stramine- 

 ous spines, otherwise smooth and without any minute setulous hispidity : leaves Sonc/i^.s- 

 like, rppand-toothed to .sinuate-pinnatifid: flowers large: petals white or roseate: sepals 

 onlv sparselv spiny, and with horns usually quite unarmed and not even hispid : valves of tlie 

 capsule not firm nor thickened and only moderately spiny. — Hort. Brit. ed. 2, 58.5 ; Prain, 

 1. c. 363, with copious synonymy. A. niha, James in Long, Exp. Am. ed. i. 461 ; Pobin.son, 

 Syn. Fl. i. pt. 1, 88, iii part; "not Lestib. A. platj/ceras, at least in part, of many Am. 

 aiitliors. — Kansas and Nebraska to Idaho, Miss Mulford, and southward to Texas and 

 Mexico. 



Var. corymbosa, A. Eastwood. Leaves obovate, subentire, or repand-toothed : 

 flowers somewhat regularly corymbous : petals small. — Erythea, iv. 96. A. corymbosa, 

 Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. ii." 59. — Mohave Desert, Mrs. Curran. 



A. plat:^ceras, Link & Otto. More den.sely prickly, glaucescent : leaves sinuate-pinna- 

 tifid : triangular-lanceolate horns of sepals armed at least dor.sally with spines and setx : 

 petals obovate to reversed-deltoid with truncate summit: capsule-valves of firm texture, 

 very densely appressed-spiny, at length more or less indurated. — Ic. Bar. i. 85, t. 43 ; Prain, 

 1. c. 366, with synonymy. — Texas to S. California. (Mex.) 



Var. hispida, Pkain, 1. c. 367. Whole plant densely setulous-hispid as well as armed 

 with stouter stramineous spines : petals obovate with rounded summit. — A. hispida, Gray, 



