Hedyotis pygmaea Roem. & Schult.

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1479. Houstonia pygmaea C. H. & M. T. Mueller
In Bull. Torr. Bot. CL lxiii. 83 (1986); Beeves & Bain,
FL S. Centr. Texas, 231 (l946).
Syn. Houstonia patens var. pusilla Gray, Syn. FI. i (2).
25 (l884). Houstonia minor var. pusilla (Gray) Small, FI.
Be. U.S. 1107, 1338 (1908). Hedyotis Taylorae Fosberg
in Shinners in Field & Lab. xvii (4). 169 (1949).
Low winter annual; very infrequent, usually occurring with
Houstonia patens Eli., but readily distinguished by its lower,
spreading habit, short-pedicellate, delicate pink flowers, the flow-
ers slightly fragrant and with a ring of yellow hairs at top of
corolla-tube; capsule laterally compressed, the length nearly four
times the width.
Neglected field* Amigo, Smith County, Texas.
Coll. H. E. Moore, Jr. (no. 1075) March 8—6, 1946
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