350 ‘ The Botanical Gazette. [November, 
flowers 5mm. long: bracts ovate, acute, half as long as the 
keeled and slightly crested acute bractlets : sepals linear-lan- 
ceolate, slightly cleft, densely woolly below, little shorter 
than the bractlets: stamen-tube united to the top, with 
linear-oblong exserted anthers - stigmas, 2, minute, spread- 
ing.—Corpus Christi, Texas. Nealley 420,. referred to G. 
niti@a Roth. in Contr. Nat. Herb. I. 48. In general ap- 
pearance this species simulates G. decumbens, but the sub- 
sessile stigmas place it in an entirely different section. 
Frelichia Texana, n. sp.— Erect, silky-villous, 5 dm. or 
more high, sparingly branched from a perennial base : leaves 
usually obtuse and mucronate farinose, whitish and 
becoming scattered in age: flowers 5mm. long, with thin 
521, referred to F. Floridana Mog. in Contr. Nat. Bis 
1.48. The species most nearly resembles F. Floridana, e 
differs in its elliptical-ovate leaves, very broad and joa 
curved bractlets, and cordate fruiting calyx (flat on one 5! e) 
with pale crenate wings. 
8mm. long: perianth segments similar, oblong-laneet 
thickish, with rugose margins. —W. Texas, Wealley, ik 
This species belongs to § OREGONIUM, and seems to and 
all others in the very coriaceous texture of the eens. 
inflorescence, the former with a very prominent mae its 
very thick involucre is strongly nerved (as seen do es 
teeth tipped with a short mucro, and the central on 
short pedunculate. 
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