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55. A. Texense, Ton: 8r Gray, FL 1. p. 231; Gray, PI Lindh. 2. p. 161. A. 

 Nuttallii, Ton: ^ Gray ! I. c. Western Texas, common. — From original specimens 

 in the Hookerian herbarium it is abundantly evident that A. Nuttallii and A. Tex- 

 ense are founded upon the very same species ; the former on cauline specimens ; 

 the latter on fully developed branches. The carpels are just alike in both. 



56. A. PARVULUM (sp. nov.) : pube minuta laxa cinereo-tomentosum ; caulibus e 

 radice perenni lignescente diffusis gracilibus superne paniculatis ; ramulis patenti- 

 pilosis; foliis parvis (6- 12 lin. latis) cordatis dentatis nunc subtrilobis ssepius ob- 

 tusis subtus canescenti-tomentosis ; pedunculis axillaribus unifloris folio longiori- 

 bus ; floribus parvis luteis ; capsula ovoidea tomentulosa apice breviter 5-loba ca- 

 lyce brevi multoties longiore ; carpellis erectis obtusiusculis muticis 2 - 3-spermis. — 

 Calcareous hills of the San Felipe and the San Pedro Rivers ; July. — This species 

 in some respects resembles A. Texense, but it is clothed with a lax tomentose pubes- 

 cence, and the branchlets with slender, soft hairs ; the slender stems are diffuse, one 

 or two feet long, many arising from the same woody root ; the leaves are remarkably 

 small, the larger cauline barely an inch in diameter, and the numerous rameal ones 

 very much smaller ; the flowers are of lesser size ; and the carpels are only five. 



57. A. (Gayoides) crispum, Doti ; Gray, Gen. Ill 2. t. 126. Beloere crispa, 

 Shuttleuiorth.* Mountains east of the Rio Grande, New Mexico. 



58. Sph^ralcea angdstifolia, /3. floribus fructibusque minoribus. S. stellata, 

 Torr. 8f Gray, FL 1. ji. 228. Low grounds, near Zacate Creek, July ; and in Texas 

 on the Rio Grande. The typical form of this species also occurs in Mr. Wright's 

 collection of 1851. 



59. S. incana (Torr. in PI. Fendl. p. 23): suffruticosa, undique pube minuta ap- 

 pressissima cano-velutina; caule suffrutescente erecto ; foliis ovatis subtrilobis obtu- 

 sis obsolete crenulatis nunc subcordatis ; floribus (parvulis) axillaribus confertis 

 et racemoso-paniculatis ; ovarii loculis 2 - 3-ovulatis. — Fields, at Presidio de San 

 Elisario, New Mexico ; Sept. (Also Jornada del Muerto, Wislizenus, with a var. % 

 /3. DissECTA : foliis tripartitis, segmentis lanceolatis plerumque lobatis. Ojo del Mu- 

 erto.) — Nearly allied to No. 60 : the flowers about the same size ; the fruit not 

 known. Stems 2 or 3 feet high. — Good specimens having come to hand of a sec- 

 ond species indicated by Dr. Torrey, the characters are here appended.f 



60. S. Fendleri : herbacea, minutum stellato-pubescens, subcinerea ; foliis trilobis 

 sen hastato-oblongis, infimis cordatis, lobis incisis dentatisve ; floribus parvulis axil- 



* Beloere, " Genus novum ab Abutilo, cujus typus mihi est A. Avicennae, Gartn., distinclum, carpellis 

 vesicariis inter se demum omnino solutis, sed ad columnam centralem nervo libero longe affixis et depen- 

 dentibus, serius caducis." Shutlleicorth, in sclied. "Beloere cistiflora, n. sp." (Key West, Rugel), which, 

 according to Mr. Shuttleworth, is the Abutilon hirtum, Don. It is apparently too near A. graveolens, 

 which is naturalized in Jamaica. 



+ Sph^ralcea Emoryi {Torr. in PI. Fendl. I. c.) : suffruticosa, humilis ; foliis crassiusculis cordato- 

 trilobis triangulatis vel subhastatis supra incanis subtus ramisque furfuraceo-tomentosis fulvis bullato-veno- 

 sis ; pedunculis unifloris; floribus majusculis ; bracteolis involucelli 2-3-filiformibus ; capsula depresso- 

 globosa tomentosa 15-cocca calyce tomentissimo obtecta ; coccis apice mucronatis dispermis. — Southern 

 New Mexico.? Col. Emory. Mexico at Rinconada and Saltillo, Dr. Gregg. — Flowers reddish: the pe- 

 tals fully an inch long. Capsule half an inch in diameter. Leaves small. 



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