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narrowed or subcordate at the base, short-petioled: racemes slender, simple or com- 
pound, 5-17 cm. long: petals greenish white or maroon, oval or elliptic-oval, 1.5-2.5 mm. 
long, spreading during anthesis. 
5 mu waste places, thickets and woods, peninsular Florida and Texas. Introduced from tropical 
merica. 
2. ANREDERA Juss. 
Vines, with fleshy much-branched stems. Leaf-blades of an ovate type, fleshy. 
Flowers in mainly axillary spike-like racemes. Sepals 2, boat-shaped, broadly winged 
at maturity. Petals 5, not longer than the sepals. Filaments flattened, and dilated below. 
Stigmas entire. 
1. Auredera scandens Moq. A glabrous diffuse and high-climbing vine. Stem 
much branched: leaf-blades ovate, acute or acutish, 3-5 cm. long, abruptly narrowed or 
truncate at the base, short-petioled : racemes stout, mainly simple, 2-11 cm. long: petals 
pale, elliptic or oval-elliptic, 1.5-2 cm. long : sepal-wings 4-5 mm. long at maturity. 
In chapparal, about hedges and fences, southern Texas to northern South America. 
Page 406, for ‘‘ Allionia bracteosa” in key and description, read ‘‘ Allionia bracteata.” 
Page 412, between Cypselea and Trianthema insert : 
3a. GALENIA L. 
Herbs or shrubs, with spreading or prostrate branches, the foliage glabrous, pubescent 
orscaly. Leaves opposite or alternate, often very variable in size. Flowers perfect, in- 
conspicuous, axillary. Sepals 4 or 5. Stamens 8 or 10, in pairs at the sinuses of the 
perianth. Ovary 3-5-celled, or 1-celled by abortion, often depressed at the apex. Styles 
erect. Ovules pendulous. Capsule 3-5-angled, leathery. 
1. Galenia secinda Sond. Stem branched atthe base, the branches radially spread- 
ing, several dm. long, much branched : leaves numerous ; blades rhombic, cuneate-obo- 
vate or spatulate-obovate, mainly 1-2 cm. long: calyx about 3 mm. long; lobes oblong or 
lanceolate-oblong, ciliate near the tip and pubescent without : filaments shorter than the 
calyx-lobes. : 
In waste places, about Pensacola, Florida. Native of southern Africa, 
Page 468, between Synthlipsis and Lesquerella insert : 
4a. DITHYRAEA Harv. 
Herbs, with stems often branched at the base. Leaves alternate, often mainly basal : 
blades sinuate or pinnatifid. Flowers in terminal racemes. Sepals narrow, deciduous. 
Petals white or purplish, clawed. Style very short. Pod 2-lobed, the lobes conspicuously 
margined, each cavity 1-seeded. 
1. Dithyraea Wislizeni Engelm. Stem 2-6 dm. tall, closely pubescent, often 
branched at the base, the branches ascending or spreading, rather copiously leafy : leaf- 
blades lanceolate, varying to ovate-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, 3-8 em. long, or shorter 
near the inflorescence, sinuate or pinnatifid, those of the lower leaves narrowed into petiole- 
like bases, those of the upper merely sessile: racemes becoming 1-4 dm. long and lax at 
maturity: pedicels elongating, reflexed at maturity : sepals linear or linear-lanceolate, 
3.5-4.5 mm. long, ciliate : petals 6-7 mm. long, the blades suborbicular, longer than the 
claws: pods 12-14 mm. wide, notched at the base, finely pubescent. 
On dry or sandy hillsides, Arkansas to southern Utah, Texas, Arizona and adjacent Mexico. 
Spring and summer. 
Page 460, after description of Berberis Swazeyi, insert : 
3. Berberis trifoliolàta Moric. A rigid much-branched shrub 0.5-2 m. tall, the bark 
pale. Leaves numerous; leaflets 3, the blades rigid, leathery, oblong to lanceolate in 
outline, with 3-7 pale-margined spine-tipped pinnate teeth, sessile at the end of the petiole 
which is usually 2-3 em. long: flowers in fascicles on scaly spur-like branches : pedicels 
slender, 5-10 mm. long: outer sepals ovate, obtuse; inner sepals obovate, much longer 
than the outer: petals yellow, 3-4 mm. long: berries globular, 4-5 mm. in diameter, red. 
In dry or stony soil, Texas and adjacent Mexico. Fall, winter and early spring. 
Page 462, for ‘‘ Argemone delicatula” read ‘‘ Argemone pinnatifida Norton.” 
