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17- P- PUBERULA, A. Gray, PI. Wright, i. 40, (1852). 

 ; Puberulent; stems erect or ascending, 6'-i8' high, some- 



what flexuous, in most cases branched, branches erect; leaves 



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numerous, alternate, linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, }4'-^' 



long, almost sessile, puberulent, often mucronate; flowers 



purplish or bluish, in open, rather few-flowered racemes 



which may become several inches long, fertilized flowers, and 



capsules, pendulous, pedicels about i^^ long, floral envelopes 



early deciduous; wings obovate, ciliolate, 2^'-l'^ long, inmost 



cases somewhat appressed to, and almost as long as, the 



keel; lateral petals broad, obtuse, almost spatulate, in some 



cases slightly emarginate, considerably shorter than the keel; 



keel naked, without crest or beak; stamens eight in number, 



filaments united almost to the anthers; style slender, curved, 



neither dilated, cucuUate nor auriculate, stigma two-lobed, 



not bearded; mature capsule compressed, oval, or almost 



circular in outline, emarginate, about ^' long, the surfaces 



glabrous, or in some cases puberulent, the margin sparsely 



ciliate, the immature capsule somewhat obovate; seeds 



obovoid, hairy, the .caruncle-lobes forming three lacerate, 



somewhat curved processes, about one-quarter the length of 

 the seed. 



Texas. — P. V. Le Roy; Western Texas, Bofecillos iMts., 

 1881, V. Havard, No. 102, (18' high, leaves erect, probably 

 P. pnhcritla)\ Foot-hills Bofecillos Mts., 1883, V. Havard, 

 No. 99, and Chisos Mts., 1883, V. Havard, No. 98, (leaves 

 linear, 3"-io''' long, perhaps a variety); Western Texas to 



EI Paso, 1849, Chas. Wright, No. 104. 



7V<?re'J/r,i7a;.—T8 51-1852, C. Wright, No. 936, (type); 

 1 85 1, ex coll. Geo. Thurber, 1871, F. R. Diffenderffer, (prob- 

 ably /*. //^/;r/7//^?) ; Mangus Springs, 18S1, H. H. Rusby, No. 

 33, and, in Herb. J. D. Smith, IMogollon Mts., 1881, Henry H. 

 Rusby, No. 31, (probably P. ////vvv//^) ; "near Silver City," 

 1880, E. L. Greene. 



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Arizona.—- K^\i Ck.," 1874, Dr. J. T. Rothrock, No. 312; 

 "near Tucson, Sa. Catalina Mts.," 1881, J. G. Lemmon, No. 

 124; "Camp Bowie," 1874, Rothrock, No. 459; Foot-hills of 



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