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achenia ambulacra animal apice apparatus appear arise base Bent's Fort body Bolina branches brevioribus calyce carpels caule caulibus cells central cavity central digestive cavity centre Chihuahua chyme chymiferous tubes circular tube connection contraction corolla Council Grove deposit diameter dilatation disci distinct elongated Engelm eye-specks feet floribus foliis four gelatinous gelatinous disk genera genus Gray Gregg half an inch Harv Hippocrene Hook inch long inner surface integerrimis involucre Involucrum lanceolatis leaves length ligulis linearibus Linn lobes locomotive fringes lower margin main cavity Medusa mouth muscles muscular fibres muscular system naked-eyed Nantucket nearly Nutt oblongis ovaries pappo pappus peculiar petals plant Plate Pleurobrachia position posterior proboscis radiating tubes ramis Santa Fé Creek Sarsia seen sensitive bulb setis shoals shores side species specimens squamis Staurophora stems structure tentacles threads Tiaropsis tidal tides Torr transverse upper vertical bundles vertical rows vertical tubes Wislizenus
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Page 59 - Rocky banks of the Rio del Norte, and ravines near Santa Fe ; May. — Shrub 3 to 4 feet high. Flower nearly half an inch in length. — Very distinct from any species in the Flora of North America ; apparently resembling the R. microphyllum, HBK, of Mexico, which, however, is said to have very short peduncles, red flowers, a campanulate calyx, retuse petals, and a 2-cleft style. 255. R. CEREUM, Dougl. I. c. ; Torr. 8f Gray! Fl. 1. p. 551. (R. pumilum & R. reniforme, Null.! Mss.) Shaded banks of...
Page 321 - ... spiral, elongating, assumes the appearance of a straight or waving line. But it is especially in the successive appearances of the lateral fringes arising from the main thread that the most extraordinary diversity is displayed. Not only are they stretched under all possible angles from the main stem, at times seeming perpendicular to it, or bent more or less in the same direction, and again as if combed into one mass ; but a moment afterwards every thread seems to be curled or waving, the main...
Page 47 - The leaves in these fine fruiting specimens are from an inch to an inch and a half in length ; the tails of the fruit nearly three inches long and densely plumose.
Page 55 - Cactus rnammillaris (Gen. p. 295), and have observed its flower and fruit. It is, as has been long suspected, entirely different from the West Indian Mammillaria simplex, DC., and is nearly related to M. similis, Engelm. in Pi. Lindh. I have named it after its discoverer.* 245. M. PAPYRACANTHA (sp. nov.) : ovata, prolifera, aculeis omnibus planis chartaceis flexilibus albis, radialibus brevibus 8 centralibus 3-4 multo longioribus, 2-3 superioribus sursum curvatis, singulo inferiore longiore latiore...
Page 75 - HIRTELLA : foliis laxis linearibus vel inferioribus spathulatis scabro-glandulosis non strigosis valde hispido-ciliatis. — Sides of ravines in arid places, Santa Fe ; also on the Rio del Norte ; May, June. (348.) — A tufted, Heath-like, suffruticose plant, of a span or less in height, apparently subject to considerable variation in the foliage ; the leaves being sometimes all appressed, linear-subulate or acerose, and hoary with appressed hairs ; sometimes less hoary, but showing a close glandulosity...
Page 184 - ... feet in length, having at their extremities nearest the eye-end, brass spheres filled with lead, eight inches in diameter. These rods turn on a universal joint near the middle or centre of motion, and oppose the influence of gravitation on the longer and heavier part of the tube in every position. The centre of motion of the whole instrument is twelve feet nine inches above the floor of the dome. The focal length of the finder telescope is forty-five inches, and its aperture three inches.
Page 18 - ... Greene, Leaflets 1:153. 1905. "Open glades of the Black Range," 1904, 0. B. Metcalfe 1430, altitude, 2,900 meters. Drymaria fendleri S. Wats. Proc. Amer. Acad. 17: 328. 1882. "New Mexico," 1847, Fendler 60 (other localities mentioned). Drymaria sperguloides A. Gray, Mem. Amer. Acad. II. 4:11. 1849. "Valley of Santa Fe Creek in the mountains, in a plain grazed by cattle and horses;" :also "between Santa Fe and Pecos," August, 1847, Fendler 55 (not distributed).
Page 27 - DC., &c.), are correctly referred to this genus, it will comprise a large number of species from tropical and South America, which need an elaborate revision. I enumerate below merely the North American species which are known to me.