Plante Lindheimeriane. 177 
(599.) Zornia TeTRapHytua, Michx. Fl. 2. p. 76. Post- 
Oak openings west of the Pierdenales. June. 
(600.) Lupisus Texensts, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3492. 
New Braunfels. Not distinct, I fear, from DL. subcarnosus. 
377. Cercis occrpentatis (Torr. ined.): frutex; foliis 
subreniformibus obtusissimis ; leguminibus oblongis obtusissi- 
mis breviter apiculatis vix stipitatis. — C. Siliquastrum, var. 
Benth. Pl. Hartw. No. 1706, p. 307. — Var. fioribus etiam 
paulo minoribus, foliis supra nitidioribus. C. reniformis, En- 
gelm. Mss. Rocky plains of the Upper Guadaloupe. March, 
in flower; June, with ripe fruit. A shrub, forming thickets, 
never becoming a tree.— This is entirely distinct from C. 
Canadensis ; but does not differ from the Californian plant of 
Fremont and of Hartweg, except that the flowers are a little 
smaller still, being no larger than those of C. Canadensis, 
and the full-grown leaves are rather thicker and more shining 
above. The Texan and the Californian plants agree in their 
short and scarcely stipitate pods (only 2 or 23 inches long, 
and two thirds of an inch broad,) which character, with the 
size of the flowers, would seem abundantly to distinguish it 
from C. Siliquastrum, the legumes of which, including the 
manifest stipe, are six, or at least five inches in length. (Dr. 
Charles Wright. — The plants from seeds sown in the spring blossom from midsum- 
mer to autumn. Stem a span high, seldom branched. Leaflets 4 lines long, the 
upper surface sparsely, the lower densely beset, like the stem, &c., with villous- 
hirsute loosely appressed hairs. Peduncles in fruit 2 or 3 incheslong. Legumes 
half an inch long, densely hirsute, straight, rather acute, tipped with the short style, 
often carrying away the inconspicuous corolla upon its apex as it enlarges, nearly 
erect, only three or four produced in each capitulum, scarcely twice the length of the 
persistent subsessile calyx. Bracts subulate, the lower resembling the calyx-lobes.— 
Mr. Wright has also detected Oxytropis Lamberti, Pursh, in Western Texas; and 
likewise a unifoliolate Desmodium, namely : — 
Desmopium Wricuti (sp. nov.): caulibus gracilibus ramosis puberulis; foliis . 
unifoliolatis breviter petiolatis; foliolo membranaceo oblongi-ovato obtuso basi subcor- 
dato fere glabro; stipulis stipellisque subulatis minimis; racemis rats omento if yA 
3-4-articulato breviter stipitato, articulis inzequilateris ovalibus. — Austin, Fp: 
Mr. Charles Wright.— Stems one or two feet high. Leaves veiny, wale and 
minutely pubescent underneath, mucronulate ; the lower two inches long, on petioles 
half an inch long; the upper successively narrower and smaller, on shorter petioles. 
Legume less than an inch long; the stipe as long as the stamineal tube. 
