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APPENDIX G.-BOTANY.
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POLYTIENIA NUTTALLII, DC. Umb., p. 53, t. 13, and Prodr. 4, p.
196; Torr. and Gr., Fl. 1, p. 533. Middle Fork of Red River; fl. June
1. Witchita Mountains; fr. July 16.
EURYT^NIA TEXANA, Torr. and Gr., Fl. 1, p. 633. Main Fork of
Red River; fr. June 11. This plant has hitherto been found only by
the late Mr. Drummond, who discovered it in Texas more than twenty
years ago. It is an annual, about two feet high; the fine striae of the
stem and branches are roughened upward, with minute points. The
umbels are compound and spreading. Flowers minute. Petals white,
broadly orbicular, waved on the margin, deeply emarginate, with an inflexed
point. Fruit about one-third larger than in Drummond's Texan
specimen.
RUBIACELE.
OLDENLANDIA ANGUSTIFOLIA, Gray, PI. Wright. 2, p. 68. Houstonia
angustifolia, Mich. Fl. 1, p. 85; Hedyotis stenophylla, Torr. and Gr.,
Fl. 2, p. 41. Tributaries ot the Main Fork of Red River; fl. MayJune.
VALERIANACEJE.
FEDIA RADIATA, R. LEIOCARPA, Torr. and Gr., Fl. 2, p. 52. Upper
Red River.
COMPOSITzE.
LIATRIS SQUARROSA, Willd.; Torr. and Gr., Fl. 2, p. 68; Sweet Fl.
Gard., t. 44. Tributaries of the Washita River; fl. July 22-24.
L. ACIDOTA, Engelm. and Gray, PI. Lindh., p. 10; Gray PI. Wright.
1, p. 83. L. mucronata, Torr. and Gr., Fl. 2, p. 70; not of D. C. On
the
Washita; July 27.
SOLIDAGO ODORA, Nutt.; Torr. and Gr., Fl. 2, p. 219. Witchita
Mountains; July 16.
S. MISSOURIENSIS, Nutt. in Jour. Acad. Philad. 7, p. 32, and Trans.
Amer. Phil. Soc. (n. ser.) 7, p. 327; Torr. and Gr., Fl. 2, p. 222. With
the preceding.
ARTEMISIA FILIFOLIA, Torr. in Ann. Lyc. N. York, 2, p. 211; Torr.
and Gr., Fl. 2, p. 417. Upper tributaries of the Red River; May. An
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