Pittonia. a Series of Papers Relating to Botany and Botanists Volume 1-2 (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: they fall away together. The species is therefore, among its congeners, the counterpart of P. Pringlei in Plagiobothrys. Nutlets angular, the cartilaginous caruncular scar elongated and keel-like, medial.?(plagioboth- Rys Ambigui, Gray). 3. S. Kixgii.?Eritrichium Kingii, Watson, Bot. King. 243. t. 23; Gray, Syu. Fl. 192: Plagiobothrya Kingii, Gray, Proc. Am. Acad. xx. 281, and Syn. Fl. Suppl. 430. 4. S. Jonesii. ? Plagiobothrys Jonesii, Gray, Syn. Fl. Suppl. 430. 5. S. Harknessii. Rough-hirsute, 3?6 inches high, parted from the base into a few erect or ascending, equal branches: lower leaves linear-spatulate, two inches or more in length, the floral small, linear-oblong: inflorescence glomerate, becoming racemose here and there: nutlets a line and a quarter long, granulate-roughened, carinate on the back and with distinct indications of transverse rugse. Near Mono Lake, in the Sierra Nevada, June, 1886, Dr. H. "W. Harkness. A species quite like S. hispida in its whole aspect, but with the nutlets of S. Kingii, except that they are interruptedly rugose like those of the Amsinckias. The soft caruncular scar is here continued up nearly the whole length of the ventral keel, forming a kind of crest upon it. The corolla is as large as in S. Kingii, hence quite showy for so small a plant of this alliance. The Species Of Zauschnekia. When I look at the strongly marked forms of this genus, ns they exist in our herbaria?some of them nearly glabrous, others heavily villous, some of them hoary with a coarse to- mentum, others fairly white with a pubescence so minute asto appear like a mere bloom, some with veinless, others with strongly feather-veined leaves, the margins of which are, in this form entire, in that sharply toothed?I wonder whether authors, in allowing...