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6 Engelmann and Gray, 
ing from the internal angle at the summit. JS. Elliottii has 
narrower leaves, shorter peduncles, and about 9 orbicular car- 
pels, which are only slightly bimucronate. 
25. Matvaviscus Drummonnu, Torr. & Gr. Fl. I. p. 230. 
Wet places, Houston. August. Leaves 4 or 5 inches in 
breadth. This proves to be a very ornamental plant in culti- 
vation. 
26. Vitis sipinnata, Torr. §& Gr. Prairies, Houston. 
June. 
27. Vicra Lupoviciana, Nutt. Galveston and Houston. 
April. 
28. Viena cuaBra. Savi? Thickets, Houston, &c. 
June, July.— The plant is hirsute, but the leaves are almost 
glabrous when old; the flowers hardly larger than those of 
the garden bean; the vexillum pale yellow, the carina deep 
yellow. Legume compressed, somewhat torulose, black, 
hirsute with whitish hairs; the seed black, with a white 
hilum. ‘The leaflets are broadly oval; but there is a variety 
@ aneustiroiia, which has lanceolate or linear-lanceokate 
leaves. Near brackish water on the coast of Galveston Bay. 
July. 
29. Ruyncenosia minima, DC.; Torr. & Gr. Fl. I. p. 687. 
Houston. September. 
30. R. menisperMoiweEA, DC. With the preceding, in 
hard, clayey soil. 
31. Davusenronia tonerrotia, DC. Houston. August. 
32. Tepurosia onosrycuoiwes, Nutt. A variety with 
silvery pubescence, and somewhat persistent stipules. Flow- 
ers white, soon turning to pale scarlet; the vexillum green 
in the middle. Prairies from Houston to the Brazos. April, 
August. 
33. T. Virernrana, Pers., and 
34. InpicorerRA LepTosePaLa, Nutt. Houston and the 
Brazos. June, July. 
35. Psoratea rHomBIFOLIA, Torr. & Gr. Fl. I.p. 308. 
Sandy places, Galveston Island, May. (Also collected by Dr, 
