Engelmann, George [Feb./Mar. 1844] [fragment] [4] (seq. 108)

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95. Rudbeckia alismifolia Torr & Gr.
96. Helianthus cucumerifolius Torr & Gr. Our specimens have scabrous spotted
stems;
cordate, acuminate, coarsely serrate leaves, long terminal or axillary
peduncles bearing single heads; scales of involucrum narrowly linear
lanceolate, subulate — acuminate, much longer than disc, reaching to
about the middle of the rays; rays 12 to 19; disc dark purple flowers
minutely pubescent at base. chaff 3 toothed, middle tooth elongated, subulate
scabrous; achenia villous-pubescent, mottled, light gray, with dard [crossings?] and
markings, pappus 2 lanceolate-linear puberulent scales. — Sandy
prairies west of the Brazos, July & August.

97. Helianthus vernus n.sp. Caule hispido, ramose, foliis altermis, longe
pedunoulatis, infiniis cordatis, reliquis basi obtusis omnibus in
petiolum abrupte attenuatis, serrato-dentatis; pedunculis termi-
-nalibus axillaribus que elongatis, unifloris; involuori foliolis
lanceolatis, acuminatis, discum vix superantibus; paleis tricuspidatis,
dente medio elongato scabo; fl. radii 16-18; fl. disci atro-purpareis basi villosis,
acheniis puberulis; paleis 2 lanceolatis, puberulis.

Loose sandy soil impregnated with salt, Galveston Island ;
April and May. The first flowering Helianthus! — It is very near
1 1/2 to 2 1/2 feet high; stem somewhat spotted, much more hispid; leaves
mostly not cordate, much less serrate; scales of involucre much
shorter, more hispidly canescent, disc flowers villous at base, not naked
or minutely pubescent; achenia smaller also somewhat mottled, less hairy;
paleae a little broader, about half the length of the achenia.

98. Helianthus occidentalis Ridd. var. plantagineus T& Gr. 99. Helianthus rigidus Desf.
100. Helianthus angustifolius Lin. 101. Coreopsis drummondii T & Gr
102 Coreopsis tinctoria Nutt 103 Gaillardia picta Don. 104 Gaillardia amblyodon Gay.
105. Gaillardia lanceolata Mich. 106. Palafoxia texana DC.
107. Hymenopappus artemisiifolius DC 108 Helenium tenuifolium Nutt
109. Leptopoda brachypoda Torr & Gray var. purpurea 110 Marshallia caespitosa Nutt
All our specimens have only one single stem, and are not caespitose; Mr Lind=
heimer informs us that they grow singly and not in groups to gether .

111. Egletes texana n.sp. canescens, caule spathalatis, grosse sinuato-
obtusis, inferioribus in petiolum attenuatis, spathalatis, grosse sinuato-
-dentatis, s. pinnatifidis, s. subintegris, superioribus sessilibus
s. cordato-amplexi caulibus, subintegris; radiis involucrum multo
superantibus, tubo floram radii et disci exteriorum demum basi
indurato, calloso persistente; floribus disci interioribus imperfectis,
sterilibus, stylo indiviso.

Quicksand of the downs, Galveston island, April and May. Root
apparently annual but we have seen specimens, collected in flower in
November with nearly suffruticose very much branched, decumbent stems.