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PLANTiE WRIGHTIANJE. 



yi. 



FUMARIACE^. 



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CoRTDALis AUREA, WUld, var. siliquis breviusculis leviter curvatis adscendentibus 



Sandy hills along tlie Eio Grande, near El Paso 



Feb., March 



(1309.) 



This is intermediate between the ordinary form of the species and No. 433 of Lind- 

 heimer's coUection in 1850, named C. curvisiliqua, n. sp. by Engelmann. That has 

 still longer pods (an inch and a half long), on shorter pedicels. 



PAPAVERACE^. 



EscHscHOLTziA DouGLASii, Hook ^ Am. Bot. Beech. p. 320 ; Torr. §■ Gray, Fl 

 664 ; var. paryula. Among rocks, on mountains near El Paso, wher 



l.p. 664; 



first detected by Dr. Bigelow ; Ap 



(1310.)— Also 



the Santa Maria 



Lake Gusman 



This is the first time that an Eschscholtzia has been found east of 



Pacific border of Oregon and Califo 



It appears to be only a rather dep 



perate fonn of the Oregon 



The petals are three fourths of an inch in length 



CRUCIFER^. 



Nasturtium palustre, T}C, Old bed of the Rio Grande, 50 miles below EI Pa 



June, and Cimieluque Spring, April 



(843.) 



These specimens have pods 



long 



those of 



In most North American specimens they 



5 much shorter. (Vide PZ. Fendh p. 6.) 



N. oBTusuM, Nutt. m Torr. ^ Gray, Fl. ; Gray, Pl. Fendl. p. 6. With the pre 



ceding 



Turritis patula, Graham ; Gray., Pl. Fendl. p. 7. Mountains near Coppermine 



Creek, New Mexico 



fruit, near Lake Santa Maria, Chihuahua 



(1313) 



To this belongs the Streptanthus virgatus, Nutt. in Torr. §• Grav, Fl. The ripe 



seeds occupy a single 



> 



Streptaj^thus lox 



and the genus is not distinguishable from Arabis. 



js, Benth. PL Hartw. p. 10 ; Gray, Pl. Fendl. p. 6. 



The 



Mountains and stony hills near the copper mines ; Aug. (in flower) 



(844.) 



o 



-V 



f 



I 



leaves are only from l^ to 2 or 3 inches in lensrth : the radical and lowei 

 ones spatulate. 



S. LiNEARiFOLius, Gvai/, Pl Fendl p. 7, 8r Pl Wright. p, 1. Valley of the Limpia, 

 and pebbly beds of streams, from the Mimbres to the copper mines ; also at Lake 



Root often tjiickened and ligneous, certainly perennial. 



Santa Maria, Chihuahua 



S 



(sp 



oblongis amplexicaulibus 



) : glaberrimus, glaucescens 



fol 



caulinis cordato 



oblongis ssepe lyrato-pinnatifidis 



sinu clauso integerrimis repahdisve, infimis obovato 





Valley of the Pecos, oh stony hills ; June. (844 bis.) — Root 



oblongo-Iinearibus plani 



Stem rather 



branched from the base, 1 to 2 feet hijjh 



Radical leaves 6 or 8 inches 



or 



thickish, lyrately pinnatifid; the lower cauline similar, or obovate and entire 

 nearly so ; the upper cauline and ramcal leaves from 3 to li inches long, usually 



obtuse, or the upper acute, strongly cordate-clasping, with the rounded 



|)osterior lobes approximate 



ing. Racemcs loose, paniculate. B 



sometimes a minute one at the base of some of the pedicels, or with a foli 



