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++ ++ Pubescence stellular or branching, at least on the calyx, &c. : leaves all or most of them 

 cordate or ovate with abrupt base : corolla usually with darker eye : anthers occasionally with a 

 tinge of blue: fruiting calyx globose-ovate. 



P. Pendleri, Gray, 1. c. Pruinose-puberulent ; the pubescence microscopically minute 

 and partly simple, partly branched or stellular, sometimes a little glandular : stems a span 

 to a foot high from a deep tuberous stock, slender, much branched : leaves small (an inch 

 or less long), from deltoid-ovate or slightly cordate to ovate-lanceolate, and from repand- 

 undulate to coarsely sinuate-toothed, mostly acute : pedicels shorter than the flower : corolla 

 half an inch in diameter. — P. mollis, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound., in part. — Rocks and plains, 

 New Mexico, Fendler, Thurber, Wright, Bigelow, Parry. Also S. Colorado. 



P. mollis, Nutt. Softly cinereous-tomentose or canescent throughout with stellate or 

 many-branched woolly hairs : stems a span to a foot or more high : leaves varying from 

 ovate (or some of the lower obovate) to rounded-cordate, mostly obtuse, angulate-toothed 

 or repand (an inch or two long), on slender petioles : pedicels usually filiform and equalling 

 the petiole : corolla half to three-fourths inch in diameter : fruiting calyx an inch or more 

 long. — Nutt. in Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. ser. 2, v. 194 ; Torr. 1. c, in part ; Gray, Proc. Am. 

 Acad. x. 66. P. tomentosa, Dunal in DC. 1. c. % not Walt. — Thickets and banks of streams, 

 Arkansas (Nuttall, &c.) and Texas. (Mex.) Sometimes very white-woolly (as in coll. 

 E. Hall) ; but passing into 



Var. cinerascens, Gray, 1. u. Greenish ; the pubescence much shorter and less 

 dense, the hairs less compound : leaves roundish, rarely at all cordate, some of the lower 

 with cuneate base : pedicels sometimes shorter. — P. Pennsylvania, var. cinerascens, Dunal 

 in DC. 1. c. 435. — Indian Territory (Palmer) and through Texas (Drummond, Schott, E. Hall, 

 &c.) to Mexico. Berlandier collected it at Matamoras. 



++++++ Pubescence stellular, or simple and somewhat rigid, or nearly none : leaves from oval 

 to lanceolate-linear and tapering into the petiole, or in the first species occasionally subcordate: 

 style commonly clavate. 



P. viscosa, L. Cinereous or when young almost canescent with short and soft stellular or 

 2-3-forked pubescence : stems ascending or spreading from slender creeping subterranean 

 shoots, a foot or two long : leaves ovate or oval, varying to oblong and obova'te, entire or 

 undulate (1-J to 3 inches long) : pedicels about the length of the petioles: corolla two- 

 thirds^ to three-fourths inch in diameter, greenish-yellow with a more or less dark throat : 

 fruiting calyx globose-ovate, an inch or more long : berry yellow or orange. — Dill. Elth. 

 t. 10 ; Jacq. Vind. t. 136 ; Michx. PI. i. 149 ; Gray, 1. u. P. Pennsylvania, L. Spec. ed. 2, 

 1670, but not from Pennsylvania or near it. P. tomentosa, Walt. Car. 99. P. maritima, 

 M. A. Curtis in Am. Jour. Sci. ser. 2, vii. 407. P. Jacquini, Link, Enum. Berol. ; Dunal, 1. c. 

 P. Walteri, Nutt. in. Jour. Acad. Philad. vii. 112. — In sands on and near coast, Virginia 

 (L.), N. Carolina to Florida. (Buenos Ayres, &c.) Specific name from the viscous berry. 



Var. spathulsefolia, Gray, 1. c. Leaves spatulate or oblong-lanoeolate, gradually 

 tapering into the petiole. — P. pubescens, Engelm. & Gray, PI. Lindh. i. 19. P. lanceolata, 

 var. spathvlazfolia, Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. I.e. — Sea beaches, Plorida and Texas. Glabrate 

 forms approach the next. 



P. angustifolia, Nutt. Bright green, very minutely stellular-pubescent when young, 

 or glabrous from the first, except a fine soft stellular pubescence on the margins of the 

 leaves, or at least on the calyx-lobes : stems erect or ascending from filiform running 

 shoots, a span to a foot or more high : leaves from oblong-lanceolate or oblanceolate to 

 linear, tapering into a very short petiole (1|-3J inches long) : corolla three-fourths inch 

 in diameter when expanded : flowering calyx broadly campanulate and 3 or 4 lines long, 

 the subglobose fruiting calyx seldom an inch long. — Jour. Acad. Philad. vii. 112; Gray, 

 1. c. — Sandy coast and Keys of W. Florida. 



P. lanceolata, Michx. More or less hirsute-pubescent with short and stiff (or on the 

 stem often longer and somewhat villous-hispid) tapering hairs, most of which are simple, 

 a few 2-3-forked, varying to nearly glabrous : stems a span to a foot high from rather 

 stout subterranean shoots, angled, somewhat rigid : leaves pale green, varying from oblong- 

 ovate to narrowly lanceolate, and from sparingly angulate-few-toothed to undulate or 

 entire, mostly acute at base or tapering into a short petiole : corolla ochroleucous with 

 more or less dark eye, two-thirds to three-fourths of an inch in diameter : calyx (4 or 5 

 lines long) commonly hirsute, in fruit conical-ovate with sunken pyramidal base, 1 to 1| 



