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branched: flowers few, long-peduncled: leaves linear, acute, 2-4 
inches in length: corolla 1-14 inches in diameter ; petals obovate, 
dark purplish red, somewhat lighter toward the claw, and with small 
black spots: calyx teeth usually an inch or more in length. — Spee. 
435. Lychnis Githago, Scop. Fl. Carn. ed. 2, i. 310. Githago sege- 
tum, Desf. 1. c. 266. 
15. DRYMARIA, Willd. (Name from 8pupds, an oak copse; 
some species having been supposed to prefer that habitat.) — A grouP 
of low diffusely branched plants, chiefly of the New World; our species 
being weak annuals. — Willd. in Roem. & Sch. Syst. v. p. ¥*%} 
HBK. Nov. Gen. et Sp. vi. 21, t. 515,516; DC. Prodr. i. 395; Wats 
Bibl. Index, 102, & Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 327-329. 
* Cauline leaves rather broadly ovate. 
D. Fendleri, Wars. An erect annual, 2-10 inches high: stems, 
peduncles, and petioles finely glandular-pubescent : leaves membrana 
ceous, reniform-ovate, subcordate, abruptly acuminate, nearly smooth, 
4-5 lines long, on slender petioles half their length: flowers aggre 
gated in terminal fascicles, or single in the forks ; sepals herbaceous, 
lanceolate, acuminate, 1—3-nerved. — Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 328. 
D. cordata, Gray, Pl. Fendl. 18. D. glandulosa, Gray, Pi. Wright. 
ii. 18; Torr. Pacif. R. Rep. iv. 70, & Bot. Mex. Bound. 37.—Ne¥ 
Mexico and Arizona. 
D. holosteoides, Benru. Prostrate, smooth and somewhat 
glaucous: stems numerous, each bearing 2-3 remote fascicles of leaves 
and flowers: leaves appearing quaternate, ovate, obtuse, thickish, 3-9 
nerved, 3-6 lines long, rather abruptly contracted into a slender 
petiole 2-3 lines in length: pedicels equalling or slightly exceeding 
the petioles, 1-flowered: sepals obtusish, 13 lines long, with con 
spicuous membranous margins: seeds black, hooked, or somewhat 
cocleate. — Bot. Sulph. 16; Wats. Bibl. Index, 103.— Dry bed of 
Tarlinga Creek, W. Texas, Havard. (Lower Calif.) 
* * Cauline leaves linear, pseudoverticillate. 
D. sperguloides, Gray. Covered with a fine grayish pubescence 
or quite glabrous: radical leaves spatulate, fugacious : stem erect, with 
spreading branches and pseudoverticels of 4—8 sessile narrow obtuse 
slightly fleshy leaves 5-10 lines long, } line in breadth: intone 
iffuse ; flowers pedicellate. — Pl. Fendl. 11, & Pl. Wright. 
ii. 19; Torr. Bot. Mex. Bound. 37. — Cornfields, etc., Texas, near 
Presidio del Norte, Parry; New Mexico, Fendler, Wright ¢ Arizona, 
Palmer, Lemmon. 
