Hedyotis pygmaea Roem. & Schult.

PLANTAE EXSICCATAE GRAYANAE
1479. Houstonia pygmaea C. H. & M. T. Mueller
In Bull. Torr. Bot. Cl. lxiii. 33 (l936); Reeves & Bain
FI. S. Centr. Texas, 231 (l946).
Syn. Houstonia patens var. pusilla Gray, Syn. FI. i (2).
25 (1884). Houstonia minor var. pusilla (Gray) Small FI
Se. U.S. 1107, 1338 (l903). Hedyotis Taylorae Fosberg
in Shinners in Field & Lab. xvii (4). 169 (1949).
Low winter annual; very infrequent, usually occurring with
Houstonia patens Ell., but readily distinguished bv its lower
STSSSw14, shoft-P®dic®11ate* delicate pink flowers, the flow-
and with a ring of yellow hairs at top of
tTmes the widthPS	7 COmpressed*the le°gth nearly four
Neglected field, Amigo, Smith County, Texas.
Coll. H. E. Moore, Jr. (no. 1075) March 3-6, 1946
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