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y 33. Erysimum asperuxU, DC; Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. \. p. 64. t. 22. In ripe fruit. 



— San Miguel to the east of Rock Creek, in patches of fertile and loose soil, on high 

 prairies ; August. — Cotyledons incumbent. Siliques spreading. 



34. E. asperum, DC. With rather small flowers and narrow leaves : yet scarcely 

 agreeing in the length of the petals with E. parvillorum, Nutt. — Valley of Santa Fe 

 Creek ; May to July. 



35. E. asperum, DC, var. A less hoary form, with larger flowers ; the young si- 

 liques erect. — High on a ledge of rocks overlooking the Rio del Norte ; May. — Mr. 

 Nuttall has apparently multiplied the species unduly. 



f36. Stanley a pinnatifida, Nutt.! Gen.% p.l\ ; Gray, Gen. 111. t. 65. — A single 

 specimen was gathered in September, 1846, fifteen miles northeast of Rio de los 

 Animos, between Bent's Fort and New Mexico. It bears nearly full-grown pods, as 

 well as flowers, although all the lower part of the dense racemes have been unfruitful. 

 The upper leaves are linear, and many of them, and even of the lower, are entire or 

 nearly so. Hence it may be S. heterophylla, Nutt. ; but the lamina of the petals is 

 much shorter than the claws. — Although not mentioned in Hooker's Enumeration of 

 Geyer's collection, I possess a specimen, distributed as No. 97, of what appears to be 

 S. viridiflora, Nutt. The thick and smooth leaves are all perfectly entire. 



f 37. Sinapis nigra, Linn. Near irrigating ditches, Santa Fe ; June, July. Doubt- 

 less introduced. 



/ 38. Vesicaria alpina, Nutt..' in Torr. & Gray, Fl. \. p. 102; Hook..' Lond.Jour. 

 Bot. 6. p. 70. On the lesser hills west of Santa Fe, in pebbly and dry soil, on 

 gently sloping declivities ; April to May, and, in fruit, June 7th. — Abundant and fine 

 specimens of this rare species are distributed. The dense, silvery tufts are completely 

 covered with the showy, golden-yellow blossoms. It would be a charming plant for 

 rockwork. In some specimens the style is considerably shorter than the silicic 



f39. V. arctica, Richards., var. a. Hook. Fl. Bor.-Am. 1. p. 48? Dry, gravellv 

 hills, Santa Fe ; May. In flower only. 



f40. V. Fendleri (sp. nov.): suffruticosa, nana ; caulibus ramosissimis dense foliosis 

 paucifloris ; foliis spathulato-linearibus brevibus (i-i unc. longis) integerrimis argenteo- 

 incanis, infimis rosulatis ; siliculis globosis glaberrimis stylo tenuissimo paulo brevioribus. 



— On the smaller hills around Santa Fe ; with No. 38. The single, but very perfect 

 specimen, gathered on the 21 of May, is almost entirely in fruit. The numerous stems 

 are two or three inches high, branched from the base, and the shoots of the year are 

 thickly clothed with the silvery leaves, which are much smaller than in any other species. 



The flowers are apparently less than half the size .of those of V. Ludoviciana, and onl\ 



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