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HERPESTIS ROTUNDIFOLIA, Pursh, Fl. 2, p. 418. Along the Rio Grande below El Paso; 
Wright. (444.) 
Herprstis Monntera, H. В. К. 1. с. Н. cuneifolia, Pursh. Monniera cuneifolia, Micha. КІ, 
2, p. 22. Marshy shore of the Rio Grande, between Eagle Pass and Laredo, April; Schott. 
Monterey, Neuvo Leon; Dr. Edwards. Chihuahua; Dr. Gregg. 
CoxoBEA (ScHISTOPHRAGMA) INTERMEDIA, (8р. nov.): viscoso-pubescens; foliis subpinnatipartitis ; 
floribus brevissime pedunculatis; antherz loculis subcontiguis ; capsula ovato-lanceolata calyce 
‘subinequali dimidio longioribus.—Dry hills around the Copper Mines, New Mexico; very 
cemmon; Wright. (1485). Annual, erect spreading, 2-6 inches high, with the aspect of C. 
(Leucospora) multifida; only more pubescent; the flowers very short-peduncled; the corolla 
twice as large, purple, or the lower lip pale. Capsule 3 or 4 lines long, pointed. This 
connects Bentham's Conobea multifida and his Schistophragma pusilla in such a way as to 
rende; it necessary to comprehend under one and the same genus these three species of closely 
similar aspect. The pod is just intermediate between the ovate shape of the first and the linear 
form which distinguishes the last ; but it has the spirally striate seeds of Schistophragma. Its 
unequal calyx (the upper sepal being somewhat larger, or at least longer than the others,) would 
appear to exclude it from Schistophragma no less than from Conobea ; but I observe the same 
thing, only rather less marked, in an authentic specimen of Bentham’s S. pusilla var. major, 
from Santa Martha. The stigma is essentially the same in all three. The present species has 
one peculiarity: while in its unequal calyx it seems to approach Herpestis, in its anthers, (the 
cells of which are not side by side, but one inserted a little above the other) it approaches 
Stemodia and its allies. 
CoxoBEA MULTIFIDA, Benth. in DC. Prodr. 10, р. 491. Capraria multifida, Micha. РІ. 2, p. 
22,1. 35. Common on the sandy shore of the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, April—May ; 
Schott. Rio Coleto, Texas; Thurber. 
GRATIOLA PUSILLA, Torr. in DC. Prodr. 10, p. 402. Оп the Colorado, Texas ; Wright. 
Veronica ANAGALLIS, Z. New Mexico, on the Mimbres; Wright, (1487,) Thurber ; and near 
the Copper Mines; Bigelow. 
VERONICA PEREGRINA, L. On the Rio Grande, near El Paso, and Lake Santa Maria, Chihua- 
hua; Wright, (1488.) Plains near Laguna de Lache, Solado, Mexico; Bigelow. Tubac; Parry. 
San Bernardino, Chihuahna ; Thurber, (376.) 
BucHNERA ELONGATA, Swartz. Fl. Ind. Occ, 2, p. 1061. Painted Caves and Medina creek, 
Texas; Bigelow, Schott. 
нумны BIPINNATISECTA, Seem. Bot. Herald, р. 323, t. 59, var. Texana: pilis glandulosis et 
viscidis ; pubescens seu villosa; ramis subvalidis; foliis bipinatifidis vel superioribus pinnatifidis, 
segmentis lato-linearibus obtusis inciso-dentatis ; pedicellis sæpissime brevibus ; antheris obtu- 
sissimis; capsulis glandulosis acutatis vel obtusis.—U pper Guadalupe river, etc.; Lindheimer. 
Lower Rio Grande; Wright. Head of the Pedro river, Sonora? Bigelow. A stouter, more 
pubescent and glandular plant than S. pectinata, and with the leaves much more cut, sometimes 
even tripinnatifid. The shape of the capsule varies so in the numerous specimens under exami- 
nation that I fear it cannot be greatly relied upon in this genus. The above character was 
drawn up, under a different name, before Seemann's plant was published. I have not seen 
Mexican specimens. Our plant has less dissected foliage and (except in one or two instances) 
much shorter pedicels than are delineated in Seemann's figure, and no such incised or pinnatifid 
calyx-lobes, (which, by the way, are not mentioned in the character,) still the two are likely to 
fall under the same species. 
