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Vesicaria angustifolia vars. y. longistyla integrifolia and 3. longi- 
styla pinnatifida Scheele, Linnaea 21: 584. 1848; Roemer, 
Texas, 436. 1849 
V. recurvata Engelm. ex. Gray, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist. (PI. 
Lindh.) 6: 147. 1850; Walp. Ann. 2: 38. 1851. 
Alyssum recurvatum Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pl. 2: 931. 1891. 
Slender annuals, sparsely stellate; stellae scarcely contiguous, 
small, rays distinct, variable as to number and mode of branch- 
ing; stems many, branching, erect or decumbent, 1-3.5 dm. long; 
terminal bud giving rise to a fertile stem; radical leaves thin, 
2-4 cm. long, entire, shallowly toothed or rarely nearly lyrate, 
oblanceolate, narrowed to a slender 
petiole; cauline leaves entire, oblan- 
ceolate to nearly linear; petals yel- 
low, narrowly spatulate, 5-6 mm. 
long; filaments linear, not dilated at 
the base; fruiting inflorescence elon- 
gated; pedicels very slender, recurved, 
1 cm. or less long; pods pendent, 
sessile or nearly so, glabrous, globose, 
2-4 mm. in diameter; styles slender, 
about as long as the pods; septum 
thin, nerved about half its length, 
areolae somewhat tortuous; ovules 
usually 5 in each cell, funiculi attached 
to septum for one-half their lengths or 
less. Fig. 14. L. recurvata. Habit 
Distribution: across central Texas sketch x 3. Trichomes x 25. 
from north to south. 
Specimens examined: 
Texas: dry soil, west of Crosstimbers, Johnson County, 
April, 1882, Reverchon (Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.) ; light soil, Somer- 
ville County, April, Reverchon (U. S. Nat. Herb. and Mo. Bot. 
Gard. Herb.); rocky soils, Falls Creek, Hood County, April, 
1885, Reverchon (Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb. and U. S. Nat. Herb.); 
Waco, Pace 55 (Mo. Bot. Gard. Herb.); cultivated soil, George- 
town, Jan., 1890, Bodin 63 (U. S. Nat. Herb.) ; rocky hill, Aus- 
tin, May 20, 1872, Hall 20 (U. S. Nat. Herb. and Mo. Bot. 
