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VESICARIA GRANDIFLORA. LARGE-FLOWERED 
VESICARIA. 
Class and Order. 
TTETRADYNAMIA SILIQUOSA. 
( Nat. Ord.—Crucirer2. ) 
Generic Character. 
Silicula globosa, inflata, valvis hemisphericis. Semina 
plurima (ultra 8) spits marginata. Petala integra. D C. 
Specific Name and Character. 
Vesicarta* grandiflora; annua, stellatim pubescens, cauli-- 
bus crectis flexuosis, foliis oblongis radicalibus sub- 
lyrato-pinnatifidis petiolatis caulinis sinuato-dentatis 
sessilibus, racemis elongatis multifloris, petalis rotun- 
datis patentibus brevissime unguiculatis, siliculis sub- 
stipitatis membranaceis globosis glaberrimis 4—6-sper- 
mis stylo longioribus, stigmate capitato. 
No less than three new species of Vestcarta were disco- 
vered; by M. Berenpier in Texas of Mexico, all of which 
are in my Herbarium, V. lasiocarpa, Hook. MSS., V. gra- 
cilis, and the subject of the present plate. Of these, the 
two last have been also found by Mr. Drummonn. . V. gra- 
cilis is n. 13. of Mr. Drummonn’s third Texas Collection : 
the present one (of which specimens are distributed in Mr. 
Drummonp’s first Texas Collection) is further known to us 
by seeds sent in the spring of last year, which produced 
plants in the summer, exhibiting a profusion of blossom and 
a brightness and size in the flower equalled by few plants of 
this Nat. Order, and which render the species most highly 
deserving 
* From Vesica, a bladder ; on account of the bladdered fruit. 
