paniculate at the summit; the branches of the panicle often leafless and
almost filiform. Flowers loose, rather smaller than in G. biennis : petals
white, turning reddish. Anthers linear-oblong.—In this, as in the other species,
the form of the fruit varies considerably in the different stages of growth.
In our var. 0. the flowers are nearly as large as in G. biennis, and the leaves
often assume a reddish tint. It differs from G. longiflora, Spach, only in the
larger flowers and the shorter tube of the calyx as compared with the segments.
The length of the pedicel is somewhat variable.
4. G. sinuata (Nutt.): stem suffruticose and branching at the base, naked
above, glabrous; leaves lanceolate-linear, acute, remotely and acutely
sinuate-toothed, glabrous; flowering branches slender, nearly simple, naked ;
flowers loose, pedicelled; segments of the calyx much longer than the ob-
conic tube ; petals oblong-obovate, on very slender claws, much shorter than
the calyx-segments.—Nutt.! in DC. prodr. 3. p. 44 ; Spach ! 1. c.
Arkansas ! Nuttall! Texas, Drummond !—Leaves rather thick, veinless,
with one or two salient teeth on each side. Bracts minute, cuspidate. Ovary
linear-oblong.—The stems are short, diffuse or decumbent, and very leafy,
sending off slender and quite naked flowering branches 8-12 inches in length.
We have not seen the fruit. Mr. Nuttall states it to be lanceolate, and acuminate
at each end.
5. G. villosa (Torr.) : stem suffruticose and with numerous short branches
at the base, canescently puberulent, with villous hairs intermixed ; -leaves of
the short sterile branches very numerous, tomentose-canescent, lanceolate,
remotely and acutely toothed, or rarely entire, acute; flowering branches
naked and elongated, glabrous, often paniculate; bracts subulate, minute,
much shorter than the ovary; calyx canescent; the segments twice the
length of the somewhat ventrieose tube, much longer than the petals ; young
fruit linear, 4-sided, slightly attenuate at each end, on a filiform pedicel, at
length reflexed.— Torr. ! in ann. lyc. Nero Yorlc, 2. p. 200.
Near the sources of the Canadian River, Dr. James! Arkansas 1 Mr.
Beyrich!—Stem about 3 feet high. Leaves an inch or more in length,
equally pubescent on both sides. Flowering branches often virgately
branched above, perfectly leafless. Racemes loosely flowered ; the flowers
as large as in G. sinuata. Ovary longer than the free portion of the calyx-
tube, about the length of the pedicel; the calyx-segments about the length of
the tube taken with the ovary. Petals rose-color, with very slender claws.
Anthers linear. Immature fruit very slender, about 4 lines long. The
floral organs are sometimes ternary.
6. G. coccinea (Nutt.): somewhat canescent; stems suffruticose and fas-
tigiately branched from the base, very leafy, ascending ; leaves lanceolate,
repand-denticulate or entire, closely sessile ; flowers in simple spikes terminating
the leafy branches; bracts linear, rather persistent, longer than the
ovaries ; segments of the calyx linear-oblong, rather shorter than the narrowly
infundibuliform tube, about the length of the roundish unguiculate petals;
fruit elliptical, sessile, short, terete, 4-sided above.—Nutt. ! in Fraser's cat..,
8f gen. 1. p. 249 ; Pursh, Ji. suppl. 2. p. 733 ; DC. 1. c .; Torr. ! in ann.
lyc. New York, 2. p. 200 ; Lehm. ! in Hook. 1. c. Schizocarya ? crispa,
Spach, l. c.
0. puberulent, but not canescent; leaves mostly smaller, often entire;
segments of the calyx linear; petals spatulate-obovate.—G. coccinea 0. inte-
gerrima, Torr.! 1. c. G. marginata, Lehm.! 1. c.
y. stem glabrous below ; leaves linear, mostly entire, small, and, with the
branches, puberulent.— G. parvifolia, Torr. ! 1. c.
1. almost glabrous; leaves narrowly lanceolate, undulate ; ovaries nearly
glabrous.—G. glabra, Lehm.! 1. c.
Arkansas ! to the plains of the Saskatchawan! and to the Rocky Mountains
! y. On the Canadian, Dr. James ! S. On the Saskatchawan, Drummond
!—This species has a more northern range even than G. biennis. The
G. glabra, Lehm. appears to us merely a glabrous form, and G. parvifolia,
Torr. a small-leaved state, of this species. Stems 6-12 inches high. Leaves
small. Flowers rose-color turning to scarlet. Tube of the calyx much
longer than the ovary. Fruit small.—Perhaps not sufficiently distinct from
G. epilobioides.
7. G. tripetala (Cav.): stem erect, fastigiately branched above, somewhat
hirsute, leafy; leaves lanceolate, the radical ones spatulate-lanceolate and on
long petioles, repand or denticulate, acute, clothed with appressed pubescence
; spikes slender; bracts carinate, longer than the ovaries ; segments of
the calyx and petals usually 3 ; the segments about the length of the tube,
longer than the spatulate-oblong petals ; stamens mostly 6; fruit closely sessile,
triquetrous (rarely 4-angled), the sides 1-ribbed and plicate-rugose.
Spach.—Cav. ic. 4. p. 66, t. 396, f . 1 ; DC. 1. c .; Spach, Onagr. p. 56.
G. hexandra, Ortega.
Texas, Drummond, fide Spach.—We have not seen this species, and the
description given above is condensed from Mr. Spach’s Monograph.
8. G. Drummondii: stem suffruticose at the base, a little hairy below,
virgately branched above ; leaves somewhat canescently puberulent, lanceolate,
acute, denticulate or somewhat sinuate; spikes slender, few and loosely-
flowered ; bracts ovate, caducous, about the length of the ovary ; tube of the
calyx about the length of the segments and rather shorter than the ovary ;
petals spatulate-oblong ; fruit sessile, very abruptly narrowed at the base
and terete when mature, ovate-pyramidal above, acute, with 4 strong carinate
angles— Schizocarya Drummondii, Spach ! Onagr. p. 62 (v. sp. in herb,
Webb.)
Texas, Drummond!—There are apparently several forms of this species in
Drummond’s collection : the fruit does not assume its peculiar form until it
is nearly mature. None of our specimens have sessile spikes, and in some
other respects they do not wholly agree with Mr. Spach’s detailed description.
9. Gt parviflora (Dough): stem tall, erect, and, with the margin of the
leaves, villous with very soft white hairs ; leaves ovate-lanceolate, acute or
acuminate, repand-denticulate, clothed with a very short velvety pubescence
on both sides ; spikes virgate, strict, very many-flowered, much elongated in
fruit; bracts lanceolate-subulate; flowers very small; tube of the calyx shorter
than the glabrous ovary and longer than the segments ; fruit sessile, oblong-
clavate, 4-nerved, slightly 4-angled (between the nerves) at the apex.—
Lehm.! in Hook. fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 208, Sf stirp. pug. 2. p. 58. G. mollis,
Nutt. ! ined.; Torr. ! in ann. lyc. New York, 2. p. 200 ; net of H. B. &• K.
Schizocarya micrantha, Spach ! Onagr. p. 62.
Arkansas to the sources of the Platte, Nuttall! Dr. James! and on ther
Wallawallah, Oregon, Douglas! Texas, Drummond! and near New Orleans,
Dr. Ingalls!—Stem somewhat branched, 2-5 feet high, clothed,
besides the long hairs, with a minute slightly glandular pubescence. Leaves
1-3 inches long; those at the base of the spikes small. Spikes dense, in
fruit often a foot or more long. Petals spatulate-oblong,. scarcely unguiculate,
shorter than the calyx-segments, rose-color. Anthers oval. Lobes o f
the stigma very short. Fruit 3-4 lines long, obtuse when fully grown, and
with 4 inconspicuous angles at the summit, nearly terete towards the base,
about 2-seeded.—In the most mature fruit we perceive no disposition to be
dehiscent at the apex. This species has a considerable geographical rano-e,
and was first described from imperfect specimens.