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slender, hardly curved beak about Vz'' long; stamens eight, 



or in some cases seven, in number, filaments connected al- 

 most to the anthers, somewhat dilated near the anthers; ovary 

 pubescent; style long", slender, flexuous, curved above, neither 

 auriculate nor cucullate, somewhat dilated near the tip which 

 has a minutely denticulate margin; mature capsule com- 

 pressed, oblong-ovoid, 3'^ or more long, slightly emarginatc. 



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puberulent, the upper sepal a little removed from the rest of 

 the flow^er and often persistent; seeds obovoid, somewhat 

 compressed, covered with dense, spreading hairs, the two car- 

 uncle-lobes narrow, rather more than half as long as the seed. 



Texas. — Charles Wright; 1846, Lindheimer; 1847-1848, 

 Lindheimer, No. 333, (type); Blanco, J. Reverchon, No. 63 ; 

 near Comanche, 1877, Reverchon, No. 708; Austin, 1872, 

 Elihu Hall; Fort Stockton, i860, Patrick Duffy; Western 

 Texas, 185 1-1852, C. Wright, No. 1349; Waxon Spring, 

 1883, Havard, No. too; Western Texas to El Paso, New 

 Mexico, 1849, Charles Wright, No. 102. New Mexico. — 1851- 

 1852, C.Wright, No. 1349. '^Mexican Boundary Survey," C. C. 

 Parry and others. No. 190. '^ Upper Guadaloupe," 1843, Nos, 

 337 and 500. " Eagle Pass and Rio Grande," 184S, Wright. 



Type in Herb. Gray. 

 ^ Var. PARVIFOLIA, n. var. 



Puberulent; leaves all about the same size, small, ellipti- 

 cal or narrowly lanceolate, z'^-4'^ long; mature capsule smaller 

 and, especially, shorter than in the type. 



^/7>^/?^.— Foothills of the Santa Rita Mts., 1884, C. G. 

 Pringle, ex Herb. J. D. Smith. 



29. P. TwEEDYI, Britton, n. spec. 



Puberulent throughout; stems, several from a curved or 

 twisted root-stock, 8' high, or less, slender, erect or ascending, 

 more or less curved, leafy to the top, in most cases simple; 

 leaves alternate, erect, sessile, >^'-i' long, linear to linear- 



lanceolate, acute, or the lowest oblanceolate; flow^ers small, 

 about 2^^ long, few, rachis slightly geniculate, resembling 

 somewhat that in the preceding species, wings obovatc, some 



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