PLANT.E WRIGHTIAN.1:. 



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Part I. 



HANUNCULACEJE. 



1. Clematis D 



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Grau, Fl. 1. j?. 9 ; Grai/, P/. Liiidh. 2. no. 



319 i 



July 

 fniit 



var. 



foliis parvulis ramulisque magis 



BlufFs of the Kio San Felii: 



the pass of the Limpia, in valleys hetween thc mountains, A 



Apparently the same as No. 634: and 637 of Coulter's Mexican coUection 



named by Dr. Harvey " C. caudata, HooJc 



a spccies which I have not found 



dcscribed. A few specimens of the normal form were gathcrcd in Westcrn Tcxas 



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REPENS, L 



var. caulibus elongatis ; floribus pl 



Margin of the Limpia, August 



MENISPERMACEJE. 



2. CoccuLus Carolinus, DC. ; Gray, Gen. III 1. f. 28. High prairies, bctwecn 

 the San Fclipe and San Pedro Eivers, July. 



NYMPH^ACE^. 



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3. NYMPHiEA Mexicana, Znccarini, Ahhand. Math.-Phi/s. Baycrscli. Acad. 1. 

 p. 365 \ ex char. in Walp. Repert 1. p. 108. In a pond near the head of the 

 Leona ; June. (In flower and fruit.) — A slender species, with a short rhizoma. 

 Leaves three or four inches long, obscurcly crenate or mostly entirc. Petals an 

 inch and a half long, tinged with blue in the dried specimens ; thc color of the 

 recent flowers not recorded. Seeds smallcr than in N. odorata, globular, smooth. 



t N. ampla, DC. Si/st. 2. p. 54; Hook. Bot. Mag., t 4469. A specimcn of this 

 plant was gathered by Mr. AYright in 1848 on the Rio Grande, above Presidio de 

 Rio Grande. The anthers are terminated by a slender tip. 



CRUCIFER^. 

 4. Streptanthus linearifolius, Gray, Pl. Fendl. in Mem. Amer. Acad. n. ser. 



4. p. 1. 



Valley of the Limpia or Wild Rose Creek ; Aug. 



The root is plainly 



perennial. I w^as doubtless mistaken in attributing to Fendler s specimens an aniiual 

 or biennial root. 



5. S. petiolaris, Gray, Pl. Fendl. l. c. in not. San Marcos Spring, Tcxas. 



6. S. BRACTEATUS, Gray, Gen. Jll. 1. p. 146, t. 60 



Pl. Lindh. 2. p. 143. 



Sand-bars of the Colorado ; April. — With entire and with lyrately parted or 

 di\ided leaves. 



7. Thelypodium Wrightii (sp. nov,): foliis lanceolatis rcpando-dentatis vel den- 

 ticulatis omnibus in petiolum brevem angustatis ; petalis calycem vix superantibus ; 

 racemo fructifero denso modice elongato ; siliquis patentissimis elongatis brevissime 

 stipitatis. — Pass of the Limpia, on the mountains of New Mexico;. Aug. (in flower 

 and with immature fruit). — Stem two or three feet high, from a biennial or annual 

 root. Leaves broadly lanceolate, or lanceolate-oblong, from two to four inchcs in 



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