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PLANT.^ WRIGHTIAN^. 



VI. 



CAPPARIDACEiE. 



WisLizENiA REFRACTA, Engelm. in Wisl Mem. K Mex. p. 15; Gray, Fl. Wright. 

 p. 11. t. 2. Cleomella Coulteri, Harvey, ined. Sandy soil along the Rio Grande 

 below and above El Paso ; April, in flower ; July, in fruit. Also between 



the 



Chiricahui Mountains and the San Pedro, Son 



(856.) 



Cleomella longipes, To 



Pl. Wright. p. W. adn. Low, subsaline grounds 



of the Chiricahui Mountains, Sonora ; Sept 



(857.) 



Stems 2 or 3 feet high 



much branched from near the ground; the older racemes a foot long, loaded at 

 apex with light yellow flowers, and below with copious ripe capsules. These 



the 



produced 



a short horn. Stipe half 



Seeds smooth, about ten in each pod 



y* 



glabra, inermis 



gracili 



foliis 



triangular, turgid, 

 inch long, exceeding the pedic 

 Cleome Sonor^ (sp. nov.) 

 brevissime petiolatis trifoliola 

 pedunculo patente subdimidio brevioribus ; petalis albis mox roseis oblongis exun 

 guiculatis sepala cuspidato-apiculata quadruplo superantibus ; siliqua oblonga 6 — 7 



foliolis anguste linearibus integerrimis, floralibus 



sperma pendula thecaphoro lon 



6 



With the foregoing. — Stem 1 to 2 feet 



high, nearly simple. Lowest cauline leaves fallen ; those extant have petioles of 

 only a line in length, scarcely exceeding the minute and setace 

 of the upper and floral leaves still shorter. or almost wantincr. 



% 



those 



Leaflets 



8 



long, a line or less in width, canaliculate or conduplicate in the specimens 



duncles 6 



long 



decurved stipe about 3 lines long 



fruit 



Pe- 



Petals 



about 2 lines long. Anthcrs 6, linear. Style very short. Pod torulose, about half 

 an inch long, usually acute at both ends. Seeds smooth. 



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RESEDACEiE. 



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Oligomeris glaucescens, Cambess. in Jacq.Voy. Bot.p. 24. t. 25. Reseda subulata 



Delile, III. Fl. ^ggpt p. 15. Resedella subulata & R. dipetala, Wehh ^ Bertk 



Phgt. Canar. l.p.lOl 



Valley 



Ellimia ruderalis, Nictt. in Torr. ^ Gray, Fl. 1. p 



the Salado and Lake Santa M 



Chihuahua ; April 



(1321.) 



de Mapimi, Dr. Gregg. California, Coulter 



VIOLACE^. 



loNID 



To 



Grag, Gen. III. 1. t 82. Base of the Organ Moun 



northeast of El Paso ; April. Valley of the Limpi 



June 



the ordinary 



Texan form. Also, gathered on the return, on the Pecos, a narrower-leaved form 



pproaching No. 21 of the former col 

 I. RiPARiuM, H. B. K. Nov. Gen 



Sp 



(1322.) 

 5. p. 378 ; var. sestivum, crypto 



petalum, pedicellis plerisque brevissimis. — Mountains east of Santa Cruz, Sonora 



Sept 



(859 



The specimens are covered with ripe fruit ; many of the pods 



subsessile and clustered, and the petals 



yptopetalous flowers of many violets. Root 



ery small and nearly 



like the 



To I. riparium, placed 



m the vvrong section by De CandoUe, belongs his I. parietarisefolium, according 

 Mr. Bentham. 



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