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OXALIDACEAE. 



OXALISL. Sp. Pl. 4 33(i7S3\ 

 Oxalis dichondraefolia A. Gray, PL Wright, i : 27 (1852). 



Occasional around Corpus Christi, but growing in profusion in open 

 ground at the " Blind Oso." 



March 12 (1442) ; type locality, " Turkey Creek to the prairies of the 

 San Felipe, and on the Rio Grande." 



LINACEAE 



LINUM L. Sp. PI. 277 (1753). ^ 

 Linum multicaule Hook. ; T. & G. Fl. N. A. i ; 678 (1840). 



Linum selaginoides T. & G. Fl. N. A. i : 205 (1838), not Lam. 



Plentiful in dry open ground at Corpus Christi, altitude 10-40 feet. 

 The earliest specimens are simple, one flowered, flowers rather large, 

 dark orange in color. 



March 5 (1389); type locality, "Texas." 

 Linum rigidum Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 210 (1814). 



In low, sandy ground at Corpus Christi, sea level, and plentiful on the 

 summits of ridges around Kerrville. Flowers orange color, lighter than 

 those of L. multicame. In Coulter's Manual of Western Texas, L. 

 rigidum is placed under the section " * * flowers rather small." The 

 flowers are usually an inch in diameter as are those of the one placed 

 next to it, L. Berlandieri. 



April-June (1496) ; type locality, "on the Missouri." 

 Linum rupestre Engelm.; A. Gray, Bost. Jour. Nat. Hist. 6: 232 



(1850). 



On the steep stony left bank of the Guadalupe at Kerrville, altitude 

 1630 feet, profusely branching from a perennial root. 



May 7 (1715); type locality, "growing from the crevices of naked 

 rocks, New Braunfels." 



MALPIGHIACEAE. 



THRYALLIS L. Sp. PI. Ed. 2, 554 (1762), not Ad. Ju^s. 



[GALPHIMIA Cav. Ic. Desc. PI. 5: 61 (1799).] 



Thryallis angustifolia (Benth.) Kuntze, Rev. Gen. PL 89 (1891). 

 Galphimia angustifolia Benth. Bot. Sulph. 9, /. 5 (1844). 

 Galphimia linifolia A. Gray,Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. 6: 166 (1850). 



