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as the body: capsules — (inch and a half long, 2 lines thick), in- 
curved and ascending or straightish on very short and stout diverging pedicels : 
seeds turgid-lenticular, anceg acute or and minutely muriculate sariace. 
. The only certain specimens I po e those of Lindheimer’s Texan col- 
re. collected near New Breapdoleis in 1850 and 1851. Mrs. Bittle once showed 
a fine drawi ng from the living plant, showing the rey tetragonal pods. 
Siice imens fro W. Texan apie fruit, whi ich ma nay b Prete baer were collected 
Satin Hendioy” Wright, and Gir f Tex 
te - Hood or saceate tip of outer petals (except in cleistogamous Hower? dorsally wing- 
*Flowers bright yellow, about two-thirds of an inch long: stem Ae erect. 
C. crysTaLtina Engelm.1.c. Habit of the preceding: flowers spicate, 
with spur nearly as long as the body; dorsal crest short, very ae and salient, 
3 to 4-toothed : capsules linear-oblong, terete, half or three-fourths inch long, 
erect on very short pedicels, pruinose when Pi with transparent vesicles (such 
as beset the leaves of Mesembrianthemum erystallinum): seeds acute- margined, 
the coat amtentely tubercular-reticulat 
ries and fields of Shee and s. W. Missouri. oa specimens 
of thin ert by Prof. ~~ in Curtiss’s distribut 
**Flowers pale yellow, —_ a red, quarter or — of an inch in length: 
tie diffuse and slender: capsules linear a waee torulos 
AVULA DC. fa conspicuously bracted eat slender-pedicelled : 
outer uals ers the inner; crest very salient, 3 to 4-toothed : capsules 
pendulous: seeds acutely margined, rugose-reticulated, at least toward the 
margins.—C. favidaie Chapman, FI. ed. 2, 604, a slip of the pen. 
Lake Erie to Virginia, Tennessee, Missouri and Louisiana. 
C. micrantHa. Flowers short-pedicelled and small-bracted, when full- 
developed a third of an inch long, narrow, with spur a line or two long, an 
with rather narrow lunate and entire crests; often with only cleistogamous and 
much smaller flowers, which are spurless and crestless or only slightly crested : 
capsules ascending on short or very short pedicels: seeds turgid, obtuse at mar- 
gin, shining, as in typical C. aurea.—C. aurea, var. micrantha Engelm. in Gray, 
Man. |. ec. Joe cleistogamous flowers known. C. aurea, var. australis Chapm. 
Fl. ed. 2, 604, who had only the normal flowers 
Tex poh modes and Florida, and a sigene Fear, N. a rag 
whose specimens show earlier normal and inser cleistogamous flowe 
individuals On the Atlantic coast, from N. Carolina to earkovee ( pa ee o the 
rnghta form was collected by M. Langlois) this appears to be the only species. 
ii ed with C. aurea. Confirmiatioe: of this 
issouri it is said to grow intermix 
is dialeabic. —Asa GRAY. 
Development of Restelie from Gymnospora Seat hae culture of 
Spores of the Gymnosporangia “of this 
, he 
ter in the Cryptogamic ’ laboratory at Harvard. tures 
i the different hosts, but Mr. Thaxter has 
been more successful, and has been able to produce the ecidia in several cases. 
His cultures ate not yet completed, but I should like to call attention to some 
