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JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



VOLUME VI. — NO. II. 



Art. I. — Plants Lindheimeriante, Part IT. An Account 

 of a Collection of Plants made by F. Lindheimer in the 

 Western part of Texas, in the Years 1845 — 6, and 1847 — 8, 

 with Critical Remarks, Descriptions of new Species, fyc. 

 By Asa Gray, M. D. 



[The numbers follow on from the end of the former collection, as published in 

 Vol. V. of this Journal, through the collection of 1S45-6, and thence to the later 

 collection. Those inclosed in ( ) belong to the collection of 1S47 -8; for greater 

 convenience in describing them, they are here intercalated. The few numbers in 

 brackets below 319 belong to species which occurred in the former distribution. 

 Those marked with a t in place of a number have not been distributed at all. The 

 orders elaborated by Dr. Engelmann have his name affixed to that of the Order.] 



RANUNCULACEjE. 



319. Clematis Drummondii, Torr. fy Gray, Fl. 1. p. 9. 

 Dry prairies, Comale Spring, &x. June. Cultivated in the 

 Cambridge Botanic Garden, from Texan seeds, this plant 

 climbs extensively, but does not show its blossoms until Octo- 

 ber. The calyx is yellowish green, tinged with purple. 



320. Ranunculus repens, Linn. var. macranthus : pe- 

 talis 7 — 16; caulibus petiolisque villosissimis. R. macran- 

 thus, Scheele in Linncca, 21, p. 585. Sparsely on high, 

 rocky plains, and in patches on damp Muskit (Algarobia) 

 flats, New Braunfels. March. — Mr. Wright has specimens 



JOURNAL B. S. N. H. 19 JAN. 1850. 



