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';na//;/ifi?a flowers early from a slender monocarpic root; I should 

 v much upon the shape and size of the petals; and the leaves are 

 ■uiymorphous. But, in brief, 



coRONOPiFOLiA, Torr. and Oray, is well marked by the strong vil- 

 ot the throat of the calyx, the short and thick, ovoid-oblong, or at 

 biong capsules, and the large, oval or oblong, strongly cos- 

 calyx glabrous (rarely with a few- 

 gated and stouter capsules, and 

 °- ■ ■ ■ ibs),apicu- 



s forms, has elongated-oblong and perfectly 



closely sessile by a broad 



i e, and mostly porrected or divaricate from the axis which bears them, 



Dr. Parry's No. 116 is (E . pinnatifida ; his 117, probably a canescent 

 "'■J-in of CE\ albkaulis ; neither are in fruit. 



The following fiommunieation from Dr. Engelmann was received too late 

 for insertion inlts proper place in the July No. of the Journal, a. g.] 



"A large suite of specimens enables me to clear up some difficulties 

 which hnve environed the following species of (Enothera. 



"1. (ExoTriERA coRONOHiFOLiAfTorr. & Gr. Fl. 1, p. 245; Gray, PI. 

 ^endl., p. 43. Perennis, saepe niulticaulis, huniihs, erecta seu erecto- 

 Patula, puberulo-canescens, strigosa seu liispida; ti-lns inhniis lineari-spa- 

 thul-itis, caeteris pectinato pinnatifidis; tubo calych ad faucem dense villo- 

 'o; petalis saborbiculatis integrisHUimma. aequan ti bus pistil lo brevioribus; 

 capsula ovato-seu lineari-oblonga torulosa bad nunc m pedKeUem brevis- 

 ^niu?n altenuata suberecta ; seminibus magnis ovatis turgtdts *«^j'^^'««'* 



Feodler (No. 222) near Santa Fe, along wat 



on the sandhills of th ' " "' 



l^igh : flower white, turning 'deep red, about an incli in ciiameier : cnpu.e 

 'n Fendler's specimens about an inch long, in Hayden'soniy about 4 lines 

 'ong, thicker than in the allied species: seeds yellowish-brown, about a 

 ^'"e long, thick, beset with tubercles armnged in longitudinal rows 



"2. &NOTHERA PINNATIFIDA, Nutt., Geu. 1, p. 245 ; 1 orr. & Gr. Fl. 1, 

 P- 494. (E albicaulis Pursh, Fl. 2, p. 733 : DC. Prodr 3, p 51, non 

 ^m. (E. Purshii, Do;. Syst. 2, p. 688. (E Purshiana, Sjeud Norn 2 

 P-20T : Annua seu biennis, humilis, diffusa, (rarissime erecta) puberu a, 

 ^^»i«s sursum hirsuta ; foliis imis obovato-spatulatis acutis seu obtus.s inte- 

 gH.,caeteris pinnatifidis saepe ciliatis ; tnbo ^.<'^y^\''fJZ^an^.n'- 

 P^ioiUs late obcordalis seu pmfuvde emargmatis genttalm mperaniw in , 

 'capsula lanceolato lineari torulosa sessili suberecta 

 fdh utrumgue apkulatis foveolatis seriatim inter ^''^'^^ "''P^;!'":" 

 ^ notatis. San<ly soil on White River, Upper Missouri, Nuttall Gey 

 ^^icollet's Expedition, Dr. Hayden ; Las Vegas and Santa Fe,Ne 

 f , Dr. Wislizenus, Mr. Fendler; the latter's specimens few m 

 ^earini; his private number 239, were distributed with others of t 

 ^Pecies-undcr \o 223- Southe n New Mexico, Wright (referred 



Uspositis elegan- 



