This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ... by Dr. Edwards and Major Eaton, and from Key West sent by the late Mr. Blodgett. It is also No. 1538 and 3038 of Berlandier, who collected it at San Fernando, Cohahuila. Plant more or less branched and diffuse; the branches 3-5 inches long, of a grayish aspect, Leaves 6-8 lines long and 2-2 lines wide, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ... by Dr. Edwards and Major Eaton, and from Key West sent by the late Mr. Blodgett. It is also No. 1538 and 3038 of Berlandier, who collected it at San Fernando, Cohahuila. Plant more or less branched and diffuse; the branches 3-5 inches long, of a grayish aspect, Leaves 6-8 lines long and 2-2 lines wide, scabrously hirsute; the hairs arising from a little callous tubercle. Spikes many-flowered; many of the flowers ebracteate, others furnished with a large foliaceous bract which resembles the proper leaves. Flowers small: corolla apparently white, the lobes lanceolate and erect. Stamens inserted at the lower part of the corolla-tube; anthers somewhat hastate. Style very short; stigma conical from a broad base. Nutlets about half a line in diameter, with two deep pits on the face. It belongs to the section Orthostachys. Heliotropium Greggii (n. sp.): suffruticosum, e basi ramosum, prostratum; foliis lanceolatolinearibus obtusiusculis pilis brevibus adpressis hirsutis; spicis paucifloris parce foliaceis bracteatis, floribus sessilibus; corolla calyce duplo longiore, limbo plicato, laciniis brevissimis; antheris apice barbulatis; stigmate superne attenuato; nuculis subglobosis hispidis facie bifoveolatis. Sandy places near El Paso, April; Bigeloio. Near Chihuahua, xiugust; Thurber. (No. 487 and 1548, Wright.) Valley of Conchos, near Santa Kosalia, May; Gregg. Boca Grande, Caracalio, March--April; Capt. E. K. Smith. Stems prostrate, 3-8 inches long. Leaves 6-10 lines long, rarely 2 lines wide. Spikes at first distinctly circinate, mostly few-flowered, but sometimes 15-20-flowered, irregularly foliaceous. Flowers on short pedicels, white, odorous. Corolla 3-4 lines in diameter, the limb spreading and strongly plicate; lobes short with intermediate...
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