166 Planta LindheimeriancB, 



no means well characterized by Mr. Scheele. According to 

 Lindheimer it is called Mountain Grape, and covers large 

 tracts of rocky soil. It does not climb, but the stems are 

 upright, and only two or three feet high. The branches are 

 small, and the berries, of the size of peas only, are black, 

 very sweet, and the most grateful as well as the earliest 

 ripened grape of Texas. Dr. Engelmann informs me that he 

 met with the same species in Western Arkansas, growing in 

 similar situations. Also that a specimen exists in Michaux's 

 Herbarium, on the same sheet with V. rip aria. The leaves 

 are somewhat glaucous, and in appearance between those of 

 V. riparia and V. vulpina, but much smaller than in either. 



359. V. .ESTivALis, Michx. Fl. 2. p. 230 : var. tomento 

 albo, nee fulvo. Shady banks of streams, New Braunfels, 

 &c. ; flowering in May ; the fruit ripe in August. " Climbing 

 high trees. Berries of the size of peas, in large bunches, very 

 black ; the taste vinous and pleasant. Flowers very odor- 

 ous." Lindh. — Under the name of "V. candicans, (n. sp.,) 

 Engelm. ined., I have from Lindheimer, as also from Mr. 

 Wright, Texan specimens of what appears to be a variety of 

 V. Californica, Benth., with the leaves somewhat less dentate 

 and more densely tomentose underneath. 



f Vitis (Cissus) incisa, Nutt. in Torr. &r Gray, Fl. 1. 

 p. 243. New Braunfels, climbing on Muskit trees. July- 

 September. — Leaves thick and remarkably fleshy. 



f V. vulpina, Linn. ; Torr. &/• Gray, I. c. V. rotundi- 

 folia, Michx. Fl. 2. p. 231. New Braunfels. April. 



ACERACEyE. 



360. Negundo aceroides, Mcench. ; foliis adultis molliter 

 pubescentibus. New Braunfels ; and banks of the Comale. 

 March, in flower. August, in fruit. 



MALPIGHIACKfE. 



361. Galphimia linifolia (Gray, Gen. 111. 2. p. 196. t. 

 173) : humilis ; caulibus gracilibus e basi pubescente herba- 



