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aefolia, Sweet, was’ collected near nese with a 
ihoneve; (13 na In diameter,) and near Rinconada, with larger ones, (3 
inches in diameter ;) an interesting plant, the eastern i pmensesniee “of the 
— Eschscholizia, but: perennial, with a small torus, a different 
etc, 
pathos omit to introduce here a beautiful shrub discovered on the 
rocks about Agua Nueva and Buena Vista by Dr. Gregg. Depending 
upon Don’s a of Cowania as correct, I must consider this plant 
w genus, which I have great pleasure to dedicate to its 
po discoverer, my friend Dr. Josiah Gregg, whose — has 
uently mentioned in these pages.°! Greggia stris 
ie a lovely, cto) eae’ shrub, with flowers resembling roses in a 
and color, so that Dr. Gregg was inden to name it the * Cliff ro: 
orth and northeast of Monterey we reach the lower country, seer with 
ita different vegetation; here is the home of the shrubby Cassieae (Par- 
ia, Casparea, etc.,) and Mimoseae; Sephora, Dios; m 
cies of essine and Rhamnus are common here, as ‘walk as a climbing a 
iraea 
the table- inde near Parras. One of the most beautiful shrubs of ie 
district is Leucophyllum texanum, Benth., —- its whitish tomentose 
leaves and sweetscented blue flowers. It is is mon from San Antonio, 
in Texas, to Monclova, and from Cerralbo te: Camargo, but is not seen 
on the table-lands. 
sub-10 albidis, somes ot 3 fusco-atris, 2 minoribus sursum versis, sin- 
gulo longiore porrecto; floribus in vertice lanato centralibus, ovario lano- 
80; sepalis sub-10 lancicluiis, acutis, integris; petalis sub-24 ovato-lanceo- 
latis, mucronatis, integris vel versus apicem erosis; stigmatibus 7 flavis 
erecto-patentibus exsertis. 
inconada, on rocks; flowers in June. About 3 inches high, and 2 
inches in diameter below ; tubercles in 10 to 13 oblique rows closely ad- 
so as to give the whole plant the appearance of a pineapple or 
cone, sowie _ the groove and the axills, about 6 lines long; radial 
spines 3 to 5, central 5 to 8 lines long; flowers central, 3 to 5 in a cluster’ 
together i ake in long and dense wool, about 15 lines long and wide; 
_petals deep eats: 
5! Greggia, n. gen., (Greggia, Gaertn. = Eugenia, Mich., fide Endli- 
cher,) calyx tubulosus, 5-lobus, ear nd petala 5 calycis fauci inserta ; 
stamina numerosissima cum petalis inserta; ovaria plura fundo calycis in- 
1-rarius 2-ovulata; stylus vahesas deciduus, stigma nudum; ovulum 
supra basin ovarii placentae laterali insertum, anatropum; achenia villosa, 
ecaudata; semen unicum erectum, embr o radicula infera 
A Mexican shrub with small cuneate truncate detiinta ‘leaves with ad- 
nate stipules, and a, rose-colored or purple sweetscented flowers. 
reggia rupestris, n. sp., cliffs about Saltillo, Buena Vista, and Agua 
Nueva, flowers January to March; several feet high, much branched, 
leaves about 6 lines long, and at the apex 3 lines ee crowded ; 
revolute on the margin, glabrous above, tome entose 
Tr. 
to Cowania, but distinguished by the imbrieate, not reg — 
not yellow flowers, and the deciduous, not persistent s 
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