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4. FENDLERA Engelm. & Gray 
An erect branching shrub, with opposite entire leaves, white flowers, 
an 8-ribbed calyx-tube half-adherent to the 4-celled ovary and capsule, 
4 ovate-deltoid clawed emarginate petals, 8 stamens with filaments 
2-forked at apex and the lobes divaricate and extended beyond the 
cuspidate anther, and a crustaceous capsule with reticulated seeds 
winged below. 
1. F. rupicola Engelm. & Gray.  Pubescent or glabrate, with terete striate 
branches: leaves deciduous, subsessile, oblong, very entire, 3-nerved at base: flow- 
ers 1 to 3, peduncled, terminal on the short brauchlets.—Sparingly from the Sabinal 
to the Pecos, and common in the mountains beyond. 
5. WHIPPLEA Torr. 
Small and low diffuse pubescent shrubs, with opposite slightly-peti- 
led leaves, small white cymose-clustered flowers on a terminal naked 
peduncle, a calyx nearly free from the 3 to 5-celled ovary, 5 petals, 4 to’ 
12 stamens, 3 to 5 distinct styles, and a septicidal capsule dehiscent 
into 3 to 5 cartilaginous 1-seeded portions. 
1. W. Utahensis Watson. An upright much-branched little shrub: leaves thick- 
ish, 6 to 12 mm. long, elliptical or linear-oblong, very obtuse and entire: cyme rather 
short-peduncled, 3 to 7-flowered: calyx-tube elongated-tu rbinate, adnate to the 
lower half of the cylindraceous 3-celled capsule: styles 3,—In the mountains west of 
the Pecos, 
6. RIBES L. (Currant. GOOSEBERRY.) 
Shrubs, with alternate palmately-veined and lobed leaves, racemose 
flowers (in ours), calyx-tube adnate to the l-celled ovary, and fruit a 
many-seeded berry.—Ours have neither thorns nor prickles, 
1, R. viscosissimum Pursh. From 3 to 9 dm. high, pubescent and viscid- 
glandular: leaves cordate-rounded and moderately lobed, 2.5 to 10 em. in diameter : 
raceme somewhat corymb-like and few-flowered, the flowers dull white or greenish 
or sometimes purplish-tinged: calyx-tube at first campanulate, its lobes oblong and 
at least half the length of the tube: berry black and more or less glandular.—Spar- 
ingly in the mountains west of the Pecos, and apparently the only gooseberry of 
western Texas. 
2. R. aureum Pursh. (Burra.o CURRANT). Shrub 15 to 36 dm. high, glabrous 
or almost so and glandless: leaves 3 to 5-lobed, rarely at all cordate, the lobes usu- 
ally few-toothed or incised: racemes short, 5 to 10-flowered,the flowers golden-yellow 
and spicy-fragrant: tube of the salver-form calyx 3 or 4 times longer than the oval 
lobes: berry small, yellowish turning blackish,naked and glabrous.—In shady ravines — 
in western Texas, chiefly beyond the Pecos. Often also cultivated for ornament. 
CRASSULACEZR. (ORPINE FAMILY). 
Succulent or fleshy and mostly herbaceous plants, with completely 
syinmetrical as well as regular flowers, the sepals, petals, stamens, and 
pistils all of the same number (3 to 12) and usually distinct, or the 
stamens twice as many, and the carpels becoming follicles, 
1. Tilleea. Parts of the flower each 3 to 5, with the stamens just as many: small 
annuals, with opposite leaves and minute axillary flowers. 
