160 Plante Lindheimeriane. 
(584.) C. picrrara, Nutt. in Jour. Acad. Philad. 2, p. 
181; Gray, Pl. Fendl. l. c., & Gen. Ill. 21, p. 53.  Nuttallia 
digitata, Bart. Fl. N. Amer. 2, t. 63, Hook. Exot. Fl. 3, t. 
171. Nuttallia cordata, Lindl. Bot. Reg. t. 1938. Prairies 
on the Pierdenales, at the margin of woods. May, June. 
Also gathered by Mr. Wright. “Root edible, more pleasant 
than that of Psoralea esculenta,” Lindh. — One of the most 
showy species of this handsome genus; the petals, over an 
inch in length, are beautifully fringed at the summit. The 
radical leaves are very various. 
349. C. prepara, Gray, Pl. Fendl. p. 17, (excl. syn. Nut- 
tallia digitata, Bart.) & Gen. Il. 9, p. 53, t. 118. Nuttallia 
pedata, Nutt. in Hook. Exot. Fl. 3, t. 172. Dry prairies and 
margin of thickets, near Victoria, New Braunfels, and on the 
Cibolo, &e. Also abundantly gathered by Mr. Wright. 
February, April. — In cultivation, this handsome species pro- 
duces its deep cherry-red blossoms through the whole season, 
and when supported attains the height of five or six feet. 
Although it has been confused with the preceding, it is totally 
distinct from it. It has much smaller flowers, leafy stems, 
more incised foliage, and a slender, annual or biennial root. 
350. M. Wrienrn, Gray, Pl. Fendl. p. 21, & Gen. Hl. 2, 
p. 60, t. 122. Malva aurantiaca, Scheele, in Linnea, 21, p. 
469. Muskit flats, in black and heavy prairie soil. New 
Braunfels, July. — The stems are rigid, from a more or less 
ligneous base; the rather large, golden yellow flowers open 
in the afternoon. The fructiferous calyx is somewhat en- 
larged, and expanded, and tinged with brownish-red; the 
carpels in the living plant (raised in the Cambridge Botanic 
Garden,) are more deeply tinged of the same color.— The 
characters of a new species, allied to M. coccineum, are sub- 
joined.! 
! MarvasrRUM PEDATIFIDUM (sp. noy.) : caulibus e radice perenni diffusis gracili- 
trifidisve 
bus ramosis ; foliis ah ate profande 1 shee stellatis ree hirsutis, de rim 
lateralibus bifidi: subtrilobo 0, omnibus st n 
