340 The Botanical Gazette. [August, 
nize Watson’s F. alata. But we have been forced to abandon 
this as an unreliable character. Hence, it develops that the 
affinities of. Watson’s plant are here and not, as he supposed, 
with F. tomentosa. 
“F. INTERRUPTA cordata, var. nov. 
frelichia Texana Coult. & Fisher, Bot. Gaz. 17: 350. 1892. 
Fruiting calyx fuscous, broad (broader than long), cordate, 
with broad crenate wings.—Western Texas. Types in herb. 
Coulter and J. D. Smith (Pena, Weall/ey, 421, referred to F. 
Floridana Mog. in Contr. Nat. Herb. 1: 48), and herb. Gray 
(Wright, 591, from western Texas). The name Texana is 
abandoned because of its preemption as a specific name under 
Oplotheca (see synonymy of F. Floridana). 
GOSSYPIANTHUS Hook. Icon. 2: 251. 1840. 
Procumbent and diffusely branching woolly herbs from a 
perennial root-stock, with thick, more or less silky-woolly 
leaves, the radical ones varying from linear-spatulate to 
obovate-spatulate or ovate-oblong, small axillary heads of 
perfect flowers, three delicate scarious bracts, five equal acute 
three-nerved very pilose sepals, five stamens united into a 
cup at base, short style and emarginate two-lobed stigma. 
This genus is frequently confused with Gué//eminia, which 
it closely resembles in aspect. It may be distinguished at a 
glance by the invariable presence of the rosette of radical 
leaves and the more conspicuously pilose flowers. 
I. G, LANUGINOSUS (Poir.) Moq. DC. Prodr. 132: 337. 1849. 
Paronychia lanuginosus Poir. : . 4: 303. 1816? 
G. peiflorus ba 1. ye pac P betiets pooh a 
G. tenuiflorus Hook. 1. c. 1840. 
Branching from the short thick root-stock: leaves gen- 
erally pilose above and silky-canescent beneath, but often 
both surfaces becoming glabrate; the radical ones numerous 
in a flat rosette, varying in length from 2 to 7™, persistent, 
sub-coriaceous; the cauline ones smaller (4 to ro™ long 
spatulate-orbicular, obovate, ovate or lanceolate, opposite: 
bracts ovate-lanceolate: flowers densely covered with jointed 
hairs: sepals usually narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, wit 
three prominent green nerves, scarious on the margin: fila- 
ments usually dilate: pistil equalling or surpassing the sta- 
mens.—Indian Territory, southward throughout central and 
western Texas, westward to Chihuahua, and reported as €X- 
