142 Plantce Lindheimeriance. 



of the same plant, with the leaves also densely silky-vil- 

 lous, nearly as much so as in R. canus, Benth. PL Hartw. 

 No. 1626, from California ; indeed, it would seem to belong 

 to the same species ; but the carpels are, as in our R. repens, 

 pointed with a pretty long, straight, or flexuous beak, slen- 

 derly subulate from a broad base, and not " mucrone valde 

 recurvo fere circinnato," as R. canus is characterized. My 

 specimen of the latter exhibits no fruit. The petals are in 

 some specimens nearly an inch in length ; in others no larger 

 than in ordinary American forms of R. repens, into which it 

 passes by every kind of gradation. 



f Delphinium virescens, Nutt. Gen. 2, p. 14 ; Torr. fy 

 Gr. Fl. 1. p. 32; floribus albis. Rocky prairies and hills, 

 Comale Spring. April. The species is very likely to be 

 considered as only a broader-leaved variety of D. azureum. 



321. D. virescens, Nutt., var. floribus subcasruleis. Dry 

 and rocky prairies, and margins of thickets, New Braunfels. 

 April. 



BERBERIDACEJE. 



322. Berberis (Trilicina, Gray,) trifoliolata, Mori- 

 cand,Pl. Nouv. Amer. p. 113, t. 69. B. ilicifolia, Scheele in 

 Linncea,2l, p. 591, non Forst. B. Roemeriana, Scheele, I. c. 

 22, p. 352. High shore of Matagorda Bay. Also common 

 in the interior of Texas, on Comale Creek, at New Braunfels, 

 &.c. (575.) An evergreen shrub, with few branches, but 

 with many stems from the same base, often forming large 

 thickets. It flowers in February and March ; and the yellow 

 blossoms exhale the odor of saffron. The globose berries, 

 about the size of peas, ripen in May, are red, aromatic, and 

 acid ; they are called " currants " by the inhabitants, and are 

 used for tarts, &c. This interesting species, which is 

 remarkable for its palmately trifoliolate leaves, is first men- 

 tioned in the Appendix to the first volume of the Flora of 

 N. America, as having been gathered by Drummond with- 

 out flower or fruit. In 1841, it was named and characterized 



