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. Mr. Linpuermer’s plan for exploring the botany of Texas, 
and preparing specimens of dried plants for distribution, was 
announced in Silliman’s Journal for July, 1843. 'The-collec- 
tion of that season, owing to various misfortunes, havirlg been 
much smaller than was anticipated, it was thought best to 
defer its distribution until that for the year 1844 should 
come to hand. A part of the second collection was lost in 
the course of transmission to St. Louis; those which were 
received in sufficient quantity for distribution extend the 
number to 318. Mr.-Lindheimer is now entering upon an 
unexplored field west of the Colorado River, and we may 
confidently expect that a rich harvest of peculiar plants will 
.-~—yeward-his efforts during the present season. ‘This collection 
will be assorted and distributed without delay, and our ac- 
count of them duly published in the pages of this journal. 
The collection of 1843 was made on Galveston Island, 
around Houston, on the Brazos, &c. ‘The series commences 
with some species of Ranuncutus, allied to &. pusillus, 
which, having been long since distinguished by Dr. Engel- 
mann, and communicated to various botanists under the» 
following names, the characters as assigned by him are here 
given. 

1. Ranuncutvs Texensts (Engel. MSS.): caule erecto 
ramosissimo basi hispido; foliis petiolatis, inferioribus ovatis 
subcordatis denticulatis, superioribus lineari-lanceolatis, basi 
petiolorum membranaceo-dilatata bracteisque ciliatis ; petalis 5 
oblongis sepala ovata obtusa longe superantibus ; staminibus 
plurimis ; carpellis subglobosis acutis minutim tuberculosis in 
capitulum globosum congestis. — Margin of ponds, &c. near 


