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white, tinged with dull purple on the outside. Observed in dry ground 

 along the Guadalupe near Kerrville. 



June 6 (1826). 

 Cooperia pedunculata Herb. Amaryll. 179, /. 42, f. 3-5 (1837). 



On stony slopes along the Guadalupe, usually in rich shaded ground, 

 altitude 1625 feet. Outside of perianth more purple marked than C. 

 Drummondii, the tube much longer. 



April 19 (1611). 



AGAVE L. Sp. PI. 323(1753)- 



Agave maculata Regel, Ind. Sem. Hort. Petrop. 16: (1856). 



Common about Corpus Christi. Flowers purplish green on all the 

 specimens noticed. One of the "rattlesnake plants." The root or 

 rather crown is said to be an antidote for snake bites. 



June 2 (1815). 



IRIDACEAE. 



CALYDOREA Herb, in Lindl. Bot. Reg. Misc. 85 (1843). 



Calydorea Texana (Herb.) Baker, Journ. Bot. 14: 189 (1876). 

 Gelasine? Texana Herb. Bot. Mag. /. J/7? (1840). 



Collected by Drummond, Galveston Bay, and apparently not since 

 found. Scattered, but not uncommon in hard dry ground about Corpus 

 Christi and along Nueces Bay. The showy blue flowers are very deli- 

 cate, and although a number of plants were collected, only four or five 

 were fit for specimens by the time they were brought in. 



March 8 (1403); type locality, Texas. 



SISYRINCHIUM L. Sp. PI. 954 (1753). 



Sisyrinchium Bermudianum L. Sp. PI. 954 (1753). 



Sisyrinchium angustifolium Mill. Diet. Ed. 8 (1768). 



Sisyrinchium anceps Cav. Diss. 6: 345, /. 190, f. 2 (1788). 



Sisyrinchium gramineum Curtis, Bot. Mag /. 4.64. (1799). 



Sisyrinchium mucronatum Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2 : 33 (1803). 

 In sand near the Oso, growing in tufts, flowers large. Sea level. 

 April 12 (1552). 



