156 Plantce Lindheimeriance. 



margins of the latter aculeolate-ciliate, or in Lindheimer's 

 specimens nearly smooth and naked. It is probably only an 

 annual, as likewise the next. Mixed with this, in the distri- 

 bution, and probably forming the whole in many sets, are 

 fruiting specimens with the upper leaves sparser and the tips 

 of the branches naked, like a short peduncle. These belong 

 to the following species, if indeed it be different, and to the 

 New Braunfels locality there cited. 



339. L. hudsonioides, Planchon I. c. p. 186. New 

 Braunfels, growing in dense patches, on dry soil, with a rocky 

 substratum, in naked places in the prairies ; May ; in fruit ; 

 (distributed under No. 338). In clayey soil, Agua Dulce on 

 the Matagorda Bay; February, in flower. — The leaves are 

 less approximated and less squamous than in the preceding ; 

 the uppermost sparse on the branches, so that the flower, and 

 especially the fruit, is raised on a manifest peduncle, some- 

 times of more than half an inch in length. The capsules and 

 the flowers are larger ; the yellow petals nearly five lines in 

 length. But it too closely resembles L. multicaule, of which 

 it is perhaps only a variety. 



(581.) Linum Berlandieri (sphalm. Berendieri), Hook. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 3480 ; Engelm. fy Gr. PI. Lindh. p. 5 ; Gr. 

 PI. Fendl. p. 25, No. 84 (non. 85) ; Planchon in Lond. Jour. 

 Bot. 7, p. 473 ; Scheele in Linncea, 21, p. 596. L. rigidum,jf?. 

 Berendieri, Torr. &/• Gr. Fl. 1. p. 204. Stony, dry prairies, 

 near New Braunfels. May. — Except in the larger size of 

 the flowers, and the laxer leaves, this species is hard to dis- 

 tinguish from L. rigidum. Both, I believe, are annuals ; but, 

 as they flower through a great part of the year, the root hard- 

 ens, and the base often shows the vestiges of earlier stems, 

 which have perished ; thus giving it somewhat the appearance 

 of a perennial. The styles are united either for two-thirds 

 of their length, or almost to the apex. One of Lindheimer's 

 specimens in my set (gathered in 1846) not indistinctly 

 shows small stipular glands; while that of the Coll. 1847-8 

 does not. These glands are equally visible in some of the 



