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Santa Rita Mts., 1882, C. G. Pringle, No. 20; Foot-hills of 

 Santa Rita Mts.. 1884, C. G. Pringle; "Bower's Ranch," Dr. 

 Palmer, (probably P. /;^/;t77//^z); "Beaver Head," 1883, H. 

 H. Rusby, No. 527, (probably P. pubcn/la). 



Mexican Bound. Survey, C. C. Parry and others, No. 189. 



Type in Herb. Gray. 



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ZZ. P. GRANDIFLORA, Walt. Fl. Car. 179, (1788), ex descr. 



P. Scnc'ga, var. rosea, Michx. Fl. ii. 53, (1803). 

 P. pubvsccns, Muhl. Cat. 66, (18 13). 

 P, MtiJilcnbcrgii, Don, Card. Diet. i. 358, (183 i). 



Pubescent; stems several, or in some cases only one, 

 rather slender, 8-20' high, ascending, slightly curvxd, sim- 

 ple or branching, leafy to the top; leaves alternate, linear- 

 lanceolate to lanceolate, or some of them almost elliptical, 

 often mucronate, slightly pubescent, especially near the mar- 

 gin, ^'-1^' long, on very short petioles; flowers rose-color 

 or purplish, becoming greenish, scattered, often distant, the 

 lower ones mostly drooping, in elongated racemes, often sev- 

 eral inches in length, the recurved' pedicels about 2" long; 

 wings persistent, circular-deltoid, comparatively large, 3"-4" 

 broad, short-clawed, glabrous, conspicuously venose, coverhig 

 and more or less concealing the corolla or the capsule; later- 

 al petals venose, dilated above, or spatulate, much shorter 

 than the keel; keel naked, without crest or beak, more or less 

 plicate at the sides below, cucullate, with sometimes a slight 

 callosity at the tip; stamens eight in number, filaments slen- 

 der, united only below^ the middle; style slender, bent near 

 the middle at an acute angle, somewhat dilated below, neither 

 cucullate nor auriculate, minutely bearded for a short distance 

 below the stigma; mature capsule compressed, obovoid or 

 oblong-obovoid, emarginate, 234 "-3" long, glabrous, or 



nearly so; seeds oblong-ovoid, somewhat compressed, very 

 hairy, hairs silky, caruncle cartilaginous, helmet-shaped with 

 three short projections, conspicuous. 



South r^n;//>/^.— Charleston, Dr. Bachman; Society Mill. 

 1878, Herb. Wm. M. Canby, and 1884, J. D. Smith; Bluffton, 



