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ere Ae Mexico, Pinus osteosperma,* (specimens of which were sent to 
Dr. Grege, as collected on Sele battlefield ' of Buena Vista,) and to 
the ut pine of California, P. mono, phylla, Torr. and Frem.—these three 
Species being the western re pen atin: of Pinus Pinea and Cembra of 
The second species, Pinus brachyptera, * is the most common pine of me 
New Mexico, and the most useful for timber. A third species, Pinus flexi-. ‘ 
fe Jam es, eg overlooked by Dr. eight seg but has been collected in 
Mr. Fendler, about Santa Fe. Its leaves in fives and 
- pendulous éylindvieal squarrose cones staasittone it to Pinus strobus; but 
the seed is large and-edible, as Dr. James has already teinaekoi, and the 
leaves are not serrulate and much stouter. ‘The Pifiones, so much eaten 
Santa Fe, ap 
have occasion to speak of three other pines when I come to the flora of 
the mountains of ¢ hihuahua. 
Linum perenne makes its. first appearance here, and continues to Santa 
. Fe, as wel as the justly tia called Lathyrus ornaius. Several species of 
~ Pot te a? thera, Artemisia, and Pentstemon, were collected in the. “ 
g the most remarkable plants met with were the Cactae ace. ‘alles 
e served on the Arkansas, and northeast of it, nothing but an 
> <opuntia, Wine probably is not different from ame 
at once, as soon as the mountain region and the pine woods commenced, 
. yom se veral beautiful and interesting members of this curious family, au nevi 
' dence t! rite home of the cactus tribe; Mexi 
~~ On Waggon-mound the first (flowerless) specimens of a strange on 
were found, bis an erect, ligneous stem, and cylindrical, hotly 5 spi- 
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sp. —squamis  turionum elongato-acuminatis, a 
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Sai Tacha vaginarum abbreviatarum circinato-revolutis, 
deciduis foliis ternis binisve brevibus, Paleo, rectiusculis, 
nuissime striatis, supra glaucis, subtus vires- 
ea yen od inermil us ; sdleaiael 
hypte eg —squamis turionum longe ‘a acuminaiis, fim- eo 
is, Be ceectibay. vaginis elongatis adpressis; fist as. 
apaternis) utrumque _ yiridibus et aspero pales tobi 
elo oe conicis, squamis teeurvo aculeatis; 
FoF : a Mexico, aaa ~A large and fine tree, 
nigh, n 3 feet in diameter; sheathe be 
