Plante Lindheimeriane. 147 
Fendl. p. 9.— Sandy banks of Green Lake, near Matagorda 
Bay, and prairies near Victoria; February, in flower and half- 
grown fruit. Also gathered by Mr. Wright on the Rio 
Grande, Texas; by Dr. Gregg at Buena Vista, and Dr. 
Edwards at Monterey, Northern Mexico; and by Fendler at 
Santa Fe, in flower only. The species assumes a variety of 
forms, according as it flowers early near the root, or from long 
procumbent stems. In the first case the pedicels are more 
upright ; in the latter they are spreading and upwardly curved, 
as mentioned in the specific character. They are sometimes 
subtended by leaves; and the racemes in Dr. Gregg’s speci- 
mens are occasionally proliferous. The bright-yellow flowers 
are about half an inch in diameter. The plant is silvery with 
crowded, but distinct, appressed, scurfy stelle. 
330. V. recurvata (Engelm. ined.) : tenella, pube minuta 
lepidoto-stellata cinerascens; caulibus e radice annua pluri- 
mis gracilibus diffusis vel procumbentibus ramosis; foliis 
spathulatis integerrimis aut radicalibus repandis lyratisve, su- 
premis sublineari-oblongis ; racemis elongatis sparsifloris ; pe- 
dicellis se2pe secundis, fructiferis recurvis; silicula vix aut ne 
vix stipitata globosa glabra oligosperma parva stylo tenui bre- 
viore vel subzequali; seminibus immarginatis.—V. angusti- 
folia, Scheele, in Linnea, 21, p. 584, non Nutt. — Dry and 
stony or light soil, growing sparsely in the grass, San Antonio 
and New Braunfels. March, in flower; April and May, in 
fruit. Also around Austin, Mr. Charles Wright. —'The most 
slender species; with diffusely spreading stems, from four to 
eight inches long, and short, spathulate or oblong-spathulate 
leaves. ‘The flowers are not larger than those of V. gracilis, 
which it most resembles, and from which it is at once distin- 
guished by its nearly or quite estipitate silicles, pendulous on 
the recurved pedicels. The pods are a line, or little more, 
in diameter. 
331. V. eracitis, Hook, Bot. Mag. t. 3533. Muskit 
Flats, in wet or low, grassy places, New Braunfels. April, 
May.—Stems upright or nearly so, slender, from 8 to 16 
