162 Plante Lindheimeriana. 
Gregg. The expanded corolla is two thirds of an inch in 
diameter. The larger cauline leaves are from three to four 
inches long, on petioles of half that length. ‘They are de- 
scribed in the Flora of North America, from the branches 
only. I do not know the A. Nuttallii.! 
354. AnBuTILON HOLOSERICEUM, Scheele in Linnea, 21, p. 
471. A. velutinum, Gray, Gen. Ill. 2, p. 67, 1. 125. Rocky 
soil, along the margin of thickets, New Braunfels, &c. 
August, September. Also gathered by Mr. Wright in West- 
ern and Southern Texas. — Stem three to six feet high; the 
larger leaves nearly a foot in diameter, on petioles six to eight 
inches long, very seldom at all lobed. The deep orange- 
yellow corolla is over an inch in breadth. The details of the 
fruit, &c. are well delineated in the plate cited above. The 
anthers are reniform, in the ordinary manner, not three-lobed, 
as described by Scheele. The young leaves are quite white ; 
the older and larger ones greener. The root is said to be 
e ligneous and pesooninld ” in the wild plant. In cultivation 
it is an annual. 
f SeHxRaLcEA Linpuemerr (sp. nov.): lanoso-tomen- 
tosa; caulibus decumbentibus basi ut videtur suffruticosis ; 
ramis floridis assurgentibus ; foliis cordatis ssepius rotundatis 
grosse crenatis indivisis ; pedunculis petiolo longioribus ; brac- 
teolis involucelli 3 setaceis calycis lobis ovato-lanceolatis acu- 
minatis dimidio brevioribus; corolla rosea. — Victoria, on 
the lower Guadaloupe; margin of thickets on the prairie. 
! Near the southwestern borders of Texas, Mr. Wright obtained specimens of the 
subjoined species, namely : — 
BUTILON Wsieurn (sp. nov.): caulibus. decumbentibus : ramosis viscoso-pubes- 
centibus et pilis g 
ntatis supra iriduli btt llissime niveo-tomentosis ; stipulis 
subulatis caducis ; bere -uniforis petiolum æquantibus vel superioribus folium 
superantibus; calyce tomentoso 5-partito, laciniis sensim acuminatissimis corollam 
uream s beequa nube igo tomentulosa cal NUR. ree, eH 
Seco, Mr. Charles Wrigi 
— Stems one or two | feet in length; the leaves ep viii aig oc 
2 ea fupe the peduncle. The golden-yellow corolla is over an 
diameter when fuily expanded. Canin ik an. ih Jong, ne tata 
parse beaks little diverging. "i 
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