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Erysimum asperum, DC. Pebbly bed of tbe San Pedro, Limplo, and Mlmbres. 



Greggia camporum, Graj/, Pl. Wright. p. 9. i. 1. Valley of the llio Grandc,be- 

 low El Paso; June. Also in March, in flower. (1316.) — The large flowers are 

 seldom white ; but usually rose-color, changing with age to purplc. 



Draba micrantha, NuU. in Torr. ^ Gray, Fl. 1. j9. 109; Gray, Fl. Fendl. p. 10. 

 Stony hills, near El. Paso ; March. (1317.) — The naked flowering stcras are hairy 

 to the top ; and the petals are minute or wanting. 



Vesicaria angustifolia, Nutt. in Torr. ^ Gray, Fl. 1. p. 101 ; Gray, Pl 

 Lindh, 2. p. 145. On the Rio Erio and Leona, Western Texas; May; — a slcnder 

 form. (834.) Also in valleys near the Rio Grande, about GO milcs below El Paso ; 

 March ; — a form with larger flowers and pods, the lattcr somcwhat stipitate. 

 (1318.) Except in the more cinereous pubescence and the want of a consid- 

 erable stipe to the silicle, I cannot distinguish this from V. sracilis, HooA: 



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V. recurvata, Engelm. ; Gray, l. c. p. 147. Stony prairies from Chicon Creek 

 to Piedra Pinta Creek, Western Texas ; May. . (849.) — To this belong the speci- 

 mens of Berlandier rcferred by Hooker to his V. gracilis ; but Drummond's plant . 

 (No. 13 of the third collection), from whose seeds was raised the plant figured un- 

 der this name, is the true V. gracilis. — V. lasiocarpa, Hooh I have seen only in 

 the Hookerian herbarium. The subjoined character was taken from the specimen. 



V. STENOPHYLLA, Gray, Pl. Lindh. 2. p. 149 : var, j8. procera ; foliis omnibus la- 

 tioribus lineari-spathulatis vel lanceolatis. — High rocky (limestone) prairies, Turkey 

 Creek, Texas, and westward ; May. (850.) 



V. STENOPHYLLA, var. <y. siliculis ovatis ! Gravelly banks of the Sabinal, Texas ; 

 May. (851.) — The silicles are from 3 to 4^^ lines long, ovate ; the septum ellip- 



tical ! 



V. STENOPHYLLA, var. S. humilis ; foliis inferioribus spathulatis nunc parce denta- 

 tis ; calyce pl. m. persistente ! — Prairies at the head of the Limpio ; also on the 

 Pecos, &c. ; June. (852.) — The condensed and broad-Ieaved specimcns look very 

 different from the ordinary state of V. stenophylla, into which, however, the living 

 plants raised from their secds evidently pass. The calyx is often persistent until 



the pod is nearly full grown. 



V. STENOPHYLLA, var. €. difl^usa ; foliis oblanceolatis et lineari-spathulatis pulchre 

 argenteis. — V. arctica, Gray, Pl. Fendl. p. 9. — Stony hills on the Rio Grande, 

 near El Paso ; March. (1319.) — An early state of the specics, between 850 and 

 852; and with an apparently aniiual root. To this (and not to the less silvery V. 

 argyraea) belongs Fendler's No. S^, which is likewise an early state of this poly- 

 morphous species» 



Vesicaria lasiocakpa {Hooh ined. vide Bot. Mag. suh t. 3464) : annua vel blennis; follis tenuiter 

 pubescentlbus haud canescentibus oblongis pinnatifido-laciniatis ; raccmo laxo ; floribus inferioribus saepe 

 axillaribus ; pedicellis folium adaequantibus gracilibus (12-15 lin. longis), fructiferis apice recurvo-nutan- 

 tibus ; silicula immatura estlpltata globosa stylo sublongiorc (cuna ovario) dense hirsuto-pilosa. — Between 

 Bexar and Trinity River, May, 1828, Berlandier (in herb. Hook.). — Hablt and foliage much that of V. 

 grandiflora, but greener; the inflorescence nearly as in V. argynsea. Rcmarkable for its hirsute-hairy 

 fruit. 



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