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PLA^T^ WRIGHTIAN-E. 



VI. 



often mucli shorter ; and tlie peduncle an inch or an inch and a half long. By an 

 error in transcribing, in Flanta WrightiarKS the flowers are said to be 2i inches, 



instead of 2^- lines, in length. 



A. TEniROLOBA, Grai/, l. c. Stony prairies, Zoquete Creek, &c., Western Texas, 

 May ; in flowcr and with young fruit. Big bend of the San Pedro, July ; with ripe 

 fruit. (10^9.) — « Shrub 1-2 feet high." 



A. co^rsTKicTA, Benth. in Pl. Wright. p. QQ. Stony hills, fromthe Limpio to the 

 Eio Grande ; May, June (in flower and fruit). Also in valleys of the Agua Prieta, 

 Sonora, Sept. ; in fruit. (1050.) 



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A. cusriDATA, Schlecht. in Linnxsa, \2. p. 573; Gray, Pl. Wright. p. QQ. Stony 

 hills, at the copper mines; Aug. (1051.) 



A. E(EMERiANA, Schcele in Linncea^ 21. p. bi.%. Kocky hills of the San Pedro, 

 Texas, May ; in fruit. (1052.) 



ROSACE^. 



Cerasus (Microserasus) minutiflora, Engelm. in Pl. Lindh. 2. p. 185; Grai/, 

 PL Wright p. 68. Stony hills of San Felipe Creek, Texas, May; in fruit 

 (1053.) 



C. YiiiGiNTA^A, DC. ; var. foliis parvulis subtus molliter pubescentibus pallidis. 



Sidcs of mountains, at the copper mines, New Mexico, Aug. ; in fruit. (1054.) 

 The same as Fendler's No. 186. 



C. Capollin, DC, Prodr. 2. p. 539; Benth. Pl. Ilartw. p. 10. Banks of a tor- 

 rent between Rock Creek and the Limpio, June ; in fruit. (1370.) — This is ex- 

 actly Hartweff's No. 48, and Coulter's No. 89 : all with broader leaves than iS de- 



ibed by De CandoUe, nam 



No. 623 of Gregg's collection, fr 



Real del Monte, however, accords with the character, havings: leaves of about the 



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of those of Salix fraijilis. I think all of them are no more than 



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Srm^A DUMosA, Nutt. in Hook Lond. Jour. Bot. 6. p. 217. New Mexico ; prob- 

 ably with the next. The same as Fendler's No. 188. 



S. DUMOSA ; var. foliis majoribus rotundatis haud cuneatis ; panicula ampla 

 nutante ut in S. aria^folia. — Sides of hills at the copper mines, New Mexico ; Aug. 

 (1055.) — « A slender bush, 6-10 feet high." 



Cercocarpus parvifolius, Nutt. in Torr. §• Grai/, Fl. l. p. 427; var. foliis sub 



puberulis ; floribus plerisque geminis sessilibus ; tubo calycis limbo bre 

 Sidcs of mountains near Frontera, New Mexico; July. (1057.) — " Shrub 2- 

 4 feet high, much branched ; the braaches tortuous, spinescent. Leaves 4 to 6 

 lines long, minutcly silky-pubcsccnt and of nearly the same hue both sides, entire, 



2 - 3-toothed 



at the apex. Flowers shorter than the leaves, closely 

 the pedicelliform tube at most a line in length, usually stili shorter ; the 



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tegris parvis (5-10 lin. longis). — Hill-sides, along Coppermine Creek, New i 



Mexico; Aug. (1056.) — Shrub 6 to 8 feet high. The same as No. 183 of i 



Wrighfs first collection ; but the leaves still smaller. 



C. BiiEViFLORus(sp. nov.): foliis spathulato-oblongis integris sessilibus utrinque 



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