Planta Lindheimerianee. 147 



Fendl. p. 9. — Sandy banks of Green Lake, near Matagorda 

 Bay, and prairies near Victoria ; February, in flower and half- 

 grown fruit. Also gathered by Mr. Wright on the Rio 

 Grande, Texas ; by Dr. Gregg at Buena Vista, and Dr. 

 Edwards at Monterey, Northern Mexico ; and by Fendler at 

 Santa Fe, in flower only. The species assumes a variety of 

 forms, according as it flowers early near the root, or from long 

 procumbent stems. In the first case the pedicels are more 

 upright ; in the latter they are spreading and upwardly curved, 

 as mentioned in the specific character. They are sometimes 

 subtended by leaves ; and the racemes in Dr. Gregg's speci- 

 mens are occasionally proliferous. The bright yellow flowers 

 are about half an inch in diameter. The plant is silvery with 

 crowded, but distinct, appressed, scurfy Stellas. 



330. V. recurvata (Engelm. ined.) : tenella, pube minuta 

 lepidoto-stellata cinerascens ; caulibus e radice annua pluri- 

 mis gracilibus diffusis vel procumbentibus ramosis; foliis 

 spathulatis integerrimis aut radicalibus repandis lyratisve, su- 

 premis sublineari-oblongis ; racemis elongatis sparsifloris ; pe- 

 dicellis soepe secundis, fructiferis recurvis; silicula vix aut ne 

 vix stipitata globosa glabra oligosperma parva stylo tenui bre- 

 viore vel subaequali ; seminibus immarginatis. — V. angusti- 

 folia, Scheele, in Linnaa, 21, p. 584, non Nutt. — Dry and 

 stony or light soil, growing sparsely in the grass, San Antonio 

 and New Braunfels. March, in flower; April and May, in 

 fruit. Also around Austin, Mr. Charles Wright. — The most 

 slender species ; with diffusely spreading stems, from four to 

 eight inches long, and short, spathulate or oblong-spathulate 

 leaves. The flowers are not larger than those of V. gracilis, 

 which it most resembles, and from which it is at once distin- 

 guished by its nearly or quite estipitate silicles, pendulous on 

 the recurved pedicels. The pods are a line, or little more, 

 in diameter. 



331. V. gracilis, Hook, Bot. Mag. t. 3533. Muskit 

 Flats, in wet or low, grassy places, New Braunfels. April, 

 May. — Stems upright or nearly so, slender, from 8 to 16 



