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AIZOACEAE. 



MOLLUGO L. Sp. PI. 89 (1753). 

 Mollugo verticillata L. Sp. PL 89 (1753). 



In cultivated ground at Corpus Christi, altitude 40 feet. 

 May 30 (1798); type locality, "in Africa, Virginia." 



SESUVIUM L. Syst. Ed. 10, 1058 (1759). 

 Sesuvium Portulacastrum L. Sp. PL Ed. 2, 684 (1762). 

 Portulaca Portulacastrum, L. Sp. PL 446 (1753). 

 ? Polecarpon uniflorum Walt. Fl. Car. 83 (1788). 

 Sesuvium pedunculatum Pers. Syn. PL 2 : 39 (1807). 

 Aizoon Canariense Andr. Bot. Rep. /. 201. 



In moist saline soil at the Oso, 9 miles southeast of Corpus Christi. 

 April 9 (1534); type locality, "in Indiae maritimus." 



PORTULACACEAE. 



TALINUM Adans. Fam. PL 2: 245 (1765). 

 Talinum lineare H.B.K. Nov. Gen. 6: 77 (1823). 



Talinum aurantiacum Engelm. Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist. 6: 153 (1850). 

 In dry, open pasture land near Gregory, San Patricio county, altitude 

 35 feet. Less than a half dozen plants were seen. 



April 14 (1568); type locality, "locis aridis, inter Mexico et Real 

 de Pachuca, prope Gasave, in valli Tenochtitlanensi ?" 



CARYOPHYLLACEAE. 



SILENE L. Sp. PL 416 (1753). 

 Silene antirrhina L. Sp. PL 419 (1753). 



In gutters and waste places about the streets of Kerrville, growing in 

 patches, but not yet abundant; altitude 1650 feet. 



June 15 (1865); type locality, " in Virginia, Carolina." 



ARENARIA L. Sp. PL 423 (1753). 



Arenaria Benthamivs\z\.; T. & G. Fl. N. A. i : 675 (1840;. 

 Arenaria monticola Buckley, Proc. Acad. Phila. 449 (1861) fide 



Gray same 161 (1862). 

 On a rocky limestone ridge along Wolf Creek, northeastern part of 



