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257. R. aureum, Pursh, Fl. 1. p. 164. River banks and bottoms, from Mora River 

 to Rock Creek ; August. In fruit only. 



CUCURBITACE^. 



f258. Echinoctstis lobata, Torr. & Gray, Fl. 1. p. 542. Hickory Point, about 

 eighty miles west of Independence. 



259. Discanthera dissecta, Torr. &• Gray, Fl. 1. p. 697 ; var. foliis pedato-par- 

 titis (haud sectis). Rock Creek bottom, New Mexico ; August. 



260. Cucumis ? perennis, James in Longh Exped. 2. p. 345; Torr. #• Gray, Fl. 1. 

 p. 543. Low places, Santa Fe ; June. — I have this in cultivation, from Texan seeds, 

 and hope to notice it more particularly in the forthcoming enumeration of Lindheimer's 

 collection, part 2. 



f 261. Cucurbita Pepo, Linn. Fields, around Santa Fe. 



CRASSULACEJE. 



f262. Sedum Rhodiola, DC? Rocks, in the mountains near Santa Fe Creek. 

 Scarcely in flower. The plant is only 3 or 4 inches high, and the leaves are entire, as 

 in the specimens mentioned by Torrey, in Ann. Lye. New York, 2. p. 206. 



f263. Penthorum sedoides, Linn. Near Council Grove. 



SAXIFRAGACE^. 



264. Heuchera parvifolia, Nuti. in Torr. #• Gray, Fl. I. p. 581. Rocks, on the 

 northern face of mountains, Santa Fe ; June, July ; in flower.* 



265. Saxifraga bronchialis, Linn.; Torr. & Gray, Fl. I. p. 564. Steep and 

 shaded rocky banks, Santa Fe Creek ; May, June. 



266. Philadelphia microphyllus (sp. nov.) : ramis gracilibus erectis ; foliis par- 

 vis (6-9 lin. longis) ovato-lanceolatis oblongisve integerrimis obtusiusculis obsolete tri- 

 plinerviis supra nitidis subtus pallidis minute pilosis basi in petiolum brevissimum angus- 



tatis ; floribus terminalibus solitariis temisve ; calyce quadrifido extus glabro, laciniis J 



ovato-lanceolatis intus tomentulosis ; stylis ad apicem usque connatis staminibus brevio- 



ribus ; stigmatibus 4 oblongis ; capsulis subglobosis. — Santa Fe Creek, on sunny and 



• 

 * Heuchera hispida, Pursh, the rediscovery of which in the mountains of Virginia (in Giles county) I 



have recorded in 8111^^3 Journal, second series, 1. p. 81, and which I have retained in cultivation in the 



Cambridge Botanic Garden, is also found in Hancock county, Illinois, by Dr. Mead, who has distributed it 



under the name of H. Richardsonii, R. Br. ; from which, indeed, except that it is a larger and more hairy 



plant, it does not appear to differ. 



