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“4 YN De Ww ‘islizenus has intrusted to me his very interesting botanical col- 
i. tions, tions, with the desire that I should describe the numerous novelties 
nie in them. Gladly would I have done so, had not leisure been 
wanting, and were I not es ‘Gn St. Louis) cut off from large collections 
and libraries. As it is, I > only give a general view of the flora of the re- 
gions traversed, and describe a few of the most interesting new plants col- 
/ . Tected; with th “apprehension, pa ihe that some of them may have been 
published already from other without my being aware of it 
In examining the coiebteia OF D of Dr. Widinends I have been materially 
aided by having ae my power to compare the plants which Dr. Josiah 
thor i 
0, and a share of which, with 
‘great His and _ W.’s collec- 
* tions together, form a very fine herbarium for those region 
ff r of Dr. Wislizenus encompassed, as it were, the valley of the 
kage Rivtiande and the whole of Texas, as a glance at the ma map will show. 
_ His plants partake, Bisrelore of the character of the floras of the es 
J “different countries which separated by this valley. 
- of the valley of the Rio rant connects the United States, the Califor. 
nian, nian, the Mexican, and the Texan a including spare. or Spee, or 
in, gradually from about a es ey the gulf of Mexico sor 
he Cimarron river. e 
Arkansas pivehs are those oe known as the inhabitants of our 
western plains x mentio n among others, as peculiarly interesting to the 
_ botanist, or distingu shed by giving 3 a character to the landscape, in the 
er in whic they were collected, scantia virginica, P. lox arista- 
a missourie nsis, serrulat a, speciosa, &c., Penistemon Cobaea, 
e- Malva Papaver, a un | 
c. angustifolia, Aplopappus sp , Gaura coccinea, 
ay Seolorta loides, Hordeum pusillum, 
pappus grandifiorus, Gaillardia pulchel- 
own to us only through Dr. James, who accom: 
regions in 1820. We find here @osimi' 
le, T nd Gi Gr. » which has also” roan collected _ about San oie? 
wn the Rio Gr Cucumis? perennis, James, 
—RUTANICAL SKETCH. «=O iti 
ralus saree Ne, "(cotnmtion as far west as Santa Fe,) Delphinivam : 
is, hrankia oe 
found n, 
