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iinc coriaceis supra lucidis ; ovariis semper 2. 

 num, Enaelm. in litt, cum desc)\ Near Austin 



5 Wrightin Ilcrh 

 Rio Grancle. TeX' 



as; May. (Tlocky soil, New Braunfels, Aprll, Lindheimer, 1850.) — If I rightly 

 remember, tliis is indicatcd as a new species by Nuttall, in the hcrbarium of the 

 Academy of Natural Sciences, I have no record under what name. I harc rcccivcd 

 it in the earliest collections of Mr. Wright, who always insistcd it was q^uite dis- 

 tinct from Z. Carolinianum, and was uniformly a shrub of small liciglit. And in 



Lindheimer's collection of 



Engelmann has likewise characterized 



I have just received it from Mr. Shuttleworth, under the name of Z. alveolatum, n 

 sp., Pl. Rugel. No. 71, from Southern Florida, which name should be prcfcrrcd, hav 

 ing been applied to it in a named, distributed collection. Still, I am unable to dis 

 tinguish it as any thing more than a variety of the Southern Prickly Ash, into th< 

 ordinary state of which (viz. with ovate-lanceolate and acuminate leaflets) the foli 

 age passes in a series of specimens bcfore me ; and the flowers appear to be quit 

 the same. A specimen from Norfolk, Virginia, has equally small and short leaves 

 The apex of the connective of the anthcrs is thickened and glandular, as it is, per 

 haps less conspicuously, in thc ordinary Z. Carolinianum. 



82. Ptelea TRiFOLiATA, ^. MOLLis, Ton. ^ Gfay, Fl. 1. p. 680. P. mollis, Curfis 

 in Sill Jour. " Along Turkey Creek, W. Texas ; June, in fruit. 



ANACAEDIACEiE. 



83. Rhus virens, LindL in Fl. Lindh. 2. p. 159. Pass of the Limpia, and 

 liills along the San Pedro River, in flower and fruit. — Specimens of what appears 

 to be the same species, from Galcotti's Mexican collection (No* 3,900) are in Hook- 

 er s herbarium, named Rhus Scheideana, Schlecht^ by Planchon, and perhaps cor- 

 rectly. But the leaflets are at most 9, instead of from 11 to 15, and scarcely if at 

 all cordate. — This species is a pinnated Lobadium with panicled aments, accord- 

 ing to Dr. Engelmann ; the flowers being sessile and tribracteate, and developed 

 in October, not in March, as said in PL Lindh. 



84. R. MiCROPHYLLA (^Engclm. in litt.)\ "fruticosa; ramulis verrucosis; foliis im- 

 pari-pinnatis 3-4-jugis, rhachidi alata; foliolis sessilibus parvis ovalibus obtusis v. 

 mucronatis basi acutis integerrimis seu levissime crenulatis pilosulis ; floribus dioicis 

 amentaceis praecocibus basi tribracteolatis ; petalis ciliatis ; drupa globosa subcom- 

 pressa glandulari-pilosa, putamine Isevi. — Margins of thickets, on the top of hills, 

 in the large prairie between Ncw Braunfels and San Antonio, 15 miles from the for- 

 mer placc, 1850; also gathered, without developed flowcrs, in 1846. It blossoms 

 in March, and shows ripe fruit in May. A large shrub : stems one or two inches 

 in diameter, branching above, with numerous small branchlets. Leaflets 3 or 4 

 lines long. Disk 5-lobed, the lobes emarginate. A true Lobadium with pinnated 

 leaves." Engelm. — Mr. Wrighfs specimens (barely in flower) were gathered be- 

 tween the Leona and Turkey Creek, in June. 



X R. TRiLOBATA, Nutt lu Torv. Sf Grai/, Fl. 1. p. 219; Gray^ Pl. Fendl. p. 28. 

 New Mexico ; with ripe fruit. Drupes deep scarlet, sparsely hair}^ 



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