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awns are so long that their tips often project beyond the hooded summit of the galea. Leaves 

 all radical, 6 inches long, broadly linear in outline^ fringed with fine and white teeth. Peduncle 

 an inch long, spike (partly in fruit) 3 inches long. Tube of the cilyx half an inch long ; tlic 

 lobes 3 lines long, their whitish margins somewhat crisped and erose. Corolla twice the length 

 of the calyx, apparently pale purple ; the tube slender; the helmet-shaped galea obtu-;c and 

 not appendaged. Stamens inserted low down on the tube ; anthers 2h lines long, including the 

 j tapering spurs. 



rEDicuLAPJS DEXSIFLORA, BenfJi. in IIcoJc. FL Bor.'Am. 2, p. 110, Dry gravelly plains; 

 abundant near Monterey, California, May; Pai-ry ; also in Napa county^ in the same State, 



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March; Thurher. 



LOGANIACEiE. 



MlTREOLA 



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the middle and lower Rio Grande ; also in Santa Rosa valley. Chihuahua, September to October, 



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Leaves larger and broader than usual, 



PoLYPKEMUM PRocuMBEN'Sj LiuTi. 171 Ad. JJps. (1741,) t. 78; Ton\ & Gray^ ?. c; Cham, <& 

 SclilecJitAn Linnceaj by p. 173. Common on the Lower Rio Grande, April ; Scholt, 



BuDDLEiA HuMBOLDTiANA, Roeiu, & ScJiulL Rincouada Pciss, December ; Thurher. 



BuDDLEiA MArJiUBiiFOLiA, Biuth. 171 DO. Pvodr, ^^^ P^ 441. On the Rio Grande from the 

 mouth of the Pecos to Presidio del Norte ; Parry, Bigelow. A neat shrub, 3-5 feet high, with 

 heids of golden yellow odorous flowers, which turn to orange red. It is No. 1407 and ITSO 

 of Berlandier's Coll.; 311 of Wislizenius, and 444 Gregg. 



BuDDLEiA scoKDioiDES, H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Spec. 2, p. 345, t. 183. Valley of the Pecos, and 

 in Sonora ; Wrighty (No. 447, 1486.) Mountains of Muerte, July; Bigdow. On the Rio 

 Grande, below San Carlos, October; Parry. Coralitas, Chihuahua, August: Thurher, 



BuDDLEiA RACEMOSA (n. sp.) : fruticosa, 1-3-pedalis ; foliis oblongis subovatisve obtusis 

 inacqualiter crenato-dentatis basi subhastatis truncatisve raro abrupte cuueatis petiolatis gla- 

 bratis subtus ramisque junioribus pulverulenteo-canescentibus atormiferis ; capitulis globosis 

 plurifloris breviter seu longiuscule pedunculatis in racemuni virgatum elongatani fere nudum 

 dispositis ; tubo corol]a3 calyce tonientoso brevioribus. (Upper Guadalupe, etc., Texas ; lilddelly^ 

 Lindheimevy Wright ^ Ervendherg.) August, November. Y^r. incana: foliis pube mollissiraa 

 supra tenuiter tomentuloso subtus crebre tomentoso incanis. San Pedro river ; Wright^ (446.) 



EMORYA, Nov. Gen. 



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Omnino Buddleia, nisi filamenta stylusque exserta capillaria. Frutex 3-6pGdalis, raraosus 

 foliis oblongis subhastatis sinuate dentatis discoloribus; inflorescentia laxa raccmoso-thyrsoidea; 

 floribus sesqui-pollicaribus viridi-ochroleucis. 



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Emorya suaveolens, (Table XXXYI.) Caiions of the Rio Grande, below the Presidio del 

 Norte, October ; Parry. Leaves opposite, 1—2 inches Icng, and from half an inch to an inch 



and a half broad, sinuately or repandly toothed, very obtuse or truncate at the base, glabrate 



above, whitish tomentose underneath; petioles scarcely half the length of the lamina^ connected 

 at the base by an elevated ring. Flowers in terminal cymulose panicles, sweet-scented ; pedicels 

 bibracteolate, the bracteoles subulate. Calyx tubular, 4-8-costate, 4-clert nearly to the 

 middle; segments nearly equal, linear-lanceolate erect. Corolla tubular, elongated, three times 

 as long as the calyx, equally 4-cleft, the segments short and obtuse. Stamens 4, subaequal, 



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