Identifier: reportsofexplora02unit_0 (find matches)
Title: Reports of explorations and surveys, to ascertain the most practicable and economical route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: United States. War Dept Henry, Joseph, 1797-1878 Baird, Spencer Fullerton, 1823-1887 United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Subjects: Pacific railroads Discoveries in geography Natural history Indians of North America
Publisher: Washington : A.O.P. Nicholson, printer (etc.)
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant

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3. Upper Colorado, Texas ; April. Pentstemon Fendleri, (n. sp.; Plate V) : erect, glabrous throughout, glaucous; leaves cori-aceous, entire, the radical ones ovate or obovate, and tapering into a short petiole, the caulineovate or oblong, and closely sessile ; flowers cymulose, or sometimes subsolitary in the axils ofthe upper leaves and obovate bracts, forming a strict interrupted panicle or series of apparentverticils ; segments of the calyx ovate, with scarious margins ; corolla (blue or purple) funnel-form, scarcely bilabiate, sparsely bearded or smooth in the throat; sterile filament dilated anddensely (yellow) bearded at the summit. On the Pecos and Llano Estacado ; March, April. Aspecies which occurs in all the collections made in this region, and is considerably variable insize, foliage, the number of the flowers, (which are handsome, and eight or ten lines long,) thesize of the bracts, &c. It is most nearly related to P. acuminatus and P. nitidus, especially tothe latter.
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3jra§ue del STENANDRIUM BARBATUM P. S.Du7al VCo LiA.Phd BOTANY. Plate V.

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