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sessilibus lineari-filiformibus carnosulis pseudo-verticillatis internodias requantibus ; cy- 

 mulis terminalibus laxis paucifloris ; pedicellis fructiferis deflexis calyce bracteisque ob- 

 longis scariosis duplo longioribus ; sepalis ovalibus obtusissimis carnosis vix uninerviis 

 margine latissime scariosis ; petalis calyce brevioribus ad medium 4-fidis, laciniis exterio- 

 ribus multo majoribus; capsula pleiosperma. — Valley of Santa Fe Creek in the moun- 

 tains, in a plain grazed by cattle and horses. Also between Santa Fe and Pecos : July 

 and August. — Plant a span high, in aspect much like depauperate specimens of Spurry 

 (Spergula arvensis); its flowers and pods about the same size. Style 3-parted. Stipules 

 minute, but distinct, mostly geminate. This and the succeeding differ widely in aspect 

 from the ordinary species of Drymaria, on account of the attenuated and sessile leaves. 

 There is another in Dr. Gregg's Mexican collection, with the aspect of Polvcarpon 

 tetraphyllum, and evidently allied to D. holosteoides and D. glauca of Bentham.* 



f 56. D. tenella (sp. nov.) : annua, glabra ; caule erecto dichotomo ramisque seta- 

 ceis ; foliis sessilibus internodiis multo brevioribus, radicalibus spathulatis brevissimis, 

 caulinis lineari-setaceis ; floribus terminalibus brevissime pedicellatis ; bracteis minimis 

 ovatis scariosis ; sepalis ovatis obtusiusculis 3-nerviis muticis late scarioso-marginatis 

 petala angusta profunde bifida sequantibus ; ovario circa 12-ovulato. — Shady places, in 

 woodland on the mountain region, eight miles west of Las Vegas, New Mexico: August : 

 without fruit. — This is a much slenderer plant than the foregoing (5 inches high), with 

 similar leaves, only they are not fasciculate-whorled, and are mostly far shorter than the 

 almost capillary intemodes (of which the lower are li to 2 inches long), and the flowers 

 are less than half the size, borne on erect pedicels about as long as the minute bracts, 

 but shorter than the calyx. The geminate and subulate stipules are very small and fu- 

 gacious.f 



* Deymaeia polycaepoides (sp. nov.) : annua, glauca, depressa ; caulibus e collo pluribus adsurgentibus 

 (2-pollicaribus) ; foliis ovatis obovatisve basi in petiolum brevetn angustatis integerrimis crassis internodia ple- 

 rumque superantibus ; cymulis terminalibus et axillaribus plurifloris bracteatis; floribus pro genere maximis 

 (4-5 lin. longis) pedicellis longioribus ; petalis sepala ovata obtusa plana margine late scariosa sequantibus alte 

 bifidis, laciniis oblongis integerrimis ; ovario multiovulato. — Valley of Bolson de Mapimi, Dr. Gregg. — 

 Stamens 5. Capsule not seen. 



t A species nearly allied to this, which was raised from seeds mixed with those of a Mammilaria brought 

 from the mountains of Chihuahua by Dr. Wislizenus, is thus characterized by Dr. Engelmann : — 

 V " Deymaria nodosa (sp. nov.) : annua, diffusa, trichotomo ramosissima ; ramis basi nodosis tumidis bra- 

 chiatis ; internodiis superne glanduloso-puberulis ; stipulis filiformibus ; foliis linearibus canaliculars glabris ; 

 floribus in dichotomia ramulorum pedunculatis ; sepalis lanceolatis acuminatis trinerviis ; petalis ad unguem 

 bipartitis, lobis oblongo-linearibus retusis s. emarginatis calycem superantibus ; staminibus 5 disco carnoso 

 quinquelobo insidentibus ; ovario breviter stipitato subgloboso pluriovulato; calyce persistente clauso capsulam 



