ST 
53 ENGELMANN—CUSOUTA. [503 
compacta, var. crenulata, Choisy in DC. Prod. IX. 459.—In 
open woods or dry prairies, usually on shrubs, Corylus, Cea- 
Virginia, Beyrich! Gray & Sullivant! Georgia, Beyrich! II- 
linois and Missouri, Engelmann! Riehl! Kansas, Fendler! 
ent lengths, divaricate on capsule ; seeds ovate, oblique, thick, 
0.6-0.7 line long, with a small, oblong, oblique or transverse 
hilum. 
ood Hope, on £rica and other shrubs: Zwellen- 
dam, “on dry hills throughout the whole district,” Kraus! 
ins i ° i 
rican species belon 
very small (scarcely } line long) _appendiculate calyx, ete. ; 
suffultis; calycis turbinati glandulosi lobis ovatis obtusis tubo 
ratis. 
outed of Quito, Fr. Hall! in Hb. reg. Berol.; J. P. Cou- 
thouy! on a Dalea “on the banks of the Machange, 9,500 
feet high.”—A very distinct species covering low shrubs wit 
intricate masses of their hair-like stems, with scattered loose- 
