Plante Lindheimeriane. 161 
351. Matvastrum carprinirotium, Gray, Pl. Fendl. p. 22. 
In sterile soil, New Braunfels, &c. August.—To the syno- 
nyms cited in the work above-cited, I have to add that of 
Malva Lindheimeriana, Scheele in Linnea, 21, (1848,) p. 
470. The flowers open merely during a few hours of the 
brightest sunshine. 
352. Pavonta Wrieutu, Gray, Gen. Ill. 2, p. 76, t. 130. 
P. lasiopetala, Scheele in Linn@a, 21, p. 470. Rocky soil in 
Cedar woods, New Braunfels. -Also gathered in Western 
Texas, by Mr. Wright, and near Monterey, in Northern 
Mexico, by Dr. Edwards and Major Eaton. — A low, shrubby 
species, with handsome, rose-colored flowers, which are larger 
in the wild than in our cultivated plant, from which the figure 
in the Genera Illustrata was made. The seeds are glabrous, 
except a little pubescence at the chalaza ; and in some other 
respects, also, the species is not very well characterized by 
Scheele. His name, from its priority in publication, should 
probably be adopted, although so badly chosen ; for the petals, 
at most sparingly stellate-pubescent externally, are often 
nearly or quite glabrous. 
353. A. Texense (Torr. & Gray, Fl. 1, p. 231): tomento 
minuto molli undique velutino-canescens ; caule (2 —4-pedali) 
paniculato; foliis cordatis acutis vel subacuminatis serratis 
supra viridulis, ramealibus gradatim minoribus; pedunculis 
inferioribus petiolum subzequantibus, summis folio longiori- 
bus; corolla lutea; capsula ovoidea obtusa cinerea 8-loculari 
apice breviter 8-loba calyce 5-fido demum reflexo multum 
longiore ; carpellis erectis obtusiusculis muticis +3-spermis. 
— Prairies, &c. in hard and dry soil, New Braunfels. August, 
September. Apparently common throughout Texas, and to 
Monterey, in Northern Mexico, where it was gathered by Dr. 
brevi complanato membranaceo inflexis.— On the Rio Grande, Texas, in dry soil. 
Cultivated in the Cambridge Botanic Garden, it flowers through the summer. Stems 
a foot or less in height, much more slender than in M. coccineum; the flowers smaller 
and paler (between a buff and a brick-color.) The leaves are not canescent, but green 
and sparsely stellate-hirsute, and their segments incised or almost pinnatifid ; the lobes 
are tipped with a deciduous mucro or short seta. 
