12 PLANTE FENDLERIANE. 
sessilibus lineari-filiformibus carnosulis pseudo-verticillatis internodias zequantibus; cy- 
mulis terminalibus laxis paucifloris; pedicellis fructiferis deflexis calyce bracteisque ob- 
longis scariosis duplo longioribus; sepalis ovalibus obtusissimis earnosis vix uninerviis 
margine latissime scariosis ; petalis calyce brevioribus ad medium 4-fidis, laciniis exterio- 
tibus multo majoribus; capsula pleiosperma. — Valley of Santa Fé Creek in the moun- 
tains, ina plain grazed by cattle and horses. Also between Santa Fé and Pecos; July 
and August. — Plant a span high, in aspect much like depauperate specimens of Spurry 
(Spergula arvensis); its flowers and pods about the same size. Style 3-parted. Stipules 
minute, but distinct, mostly geminate. This and the succeeding differ widely in aspect 
from the ordinary species of Drymaria, on account of the attenuated and sessile leaves. 
There is another in Dr. Gregg’s Mexican collection, with the aspect of Polycarpon 
tetraphyllum, and evidently allied to D. holosteoides and D. glauca of Bentham.* 
756. D. reNELLA (sp. nov.): annua, glabra; caule erecto dichotomo ramisque seta- 
ceis; foliis sessilibus internodiis multo brevioribus, radicalibus spathulatis brevissimis, 
caulinis lineari-setaceis; floribus terminalibus brevissime pedicellatis; bracteis minimis 
ovatis scariosis ; sepalis ovatis obtusiusculis 3-nerviis muticis late scarioso-marginatis 
petala angusta profunde bifida zquantibus; ovario circa 12-ovulato, — Shady places, in 
woodland on the mountain region, eight miles west of Las Vegas, New Mexico; August; | 
without fruit. — This is a much slenderer plant than the foregoing (5 inches high), with 
sunilar leaves, only they are not faseiculate-whorled, and are mostly far shorter than the 
almost capillary internodes (of which the lower are 13 to 2 inches long), and the flowers 
are less than half the size, borne on erect pedicels about as long as the minute bracts, 
but shorter than the calyx. The geminate and subulate stipules are very small and fu- 
gacious.t 
* DRYMARIA POLYCARPOIDEs (sp. nov.) : annua, glauca, depressa ; caulibus e collo pluribus adsurgentibus 
(2-pollicaribus) ; foliis ovatis obovatisve basi in petiolum brevem angustatis integerrimis crassis internodia ple- 
Trumque superantibus ; cymulis terminalibus et axillaribus plurifloris bracteatis; floribus pro genere maximis 
(4-5 lin. longis) pedicellis longioribus ; petalis sepala ovata obtusa plana margine late scariosa zquantibus alte 
bifidis, laciniis oblongis integerrimis ; ovario multiovulato. — Valley of Bolson de Mapimi, Dr. Gregg. — 
Stamens 5. Capsule not seen. 
+ A species nearly allied to this, which was raised from seeds mixed with those of a Mammilaria brought 
from the mountains of Chihuahua by Dr. Wislizenus, is thus characterized by Dr. Engelmann : — 
_ “DryMaria woposa (sp. nov.) : annua, diffusa, trichotomo ramosissima ; ramis basi nodosis tumidis bra- 
chiatis ; internodiis superne glanduloso-puberulis ; stipulis filiformibus ; foliis linearibus canaliculatis glabris ; 
floribus in dichotomia ramulorum pedunculatis; sepalis lanceolatis acuminatis trinerviis; petalis ad unguem 
bipartitis, lobis oblongo-linearibus retusis s. emarginatis calycem superantibus; staminibus 5 disco carnoso 
quinquelobo insidentibus ; ovario breviter stipitato subgloboso pluriovulato ; calyce persistente clauso capsulam 
