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erectis laxe 5 — 7-flori8 folium suWerjiiantibus ; pedicellis flore sulxlnplo longioribun, B, 

 trifoliata, Torr, Bot. Whipp. p, G3, ex parity non JUoric. Western Texas and New ]\rrxic(> ; 

 BtgelotVy Thurher. Canon of the Guadaloupo riverj Sonora ; CapL E. K, Smith. A handsome 

 shrub 5 — 10 (rarely 15) feet high, Leaves coriaceous and rigid ; leaflets 1 — 2^ inches long, 

 sometimes truncate or cordate at the base, the middle one nsnally much longer tliun the others, 

 and witli more numerous teeth ; the lowest pair situated close to the base of tlie potinle. On 



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some specimens the primary leaves arc reduced to small branching prickles, as in Berberis 

 proper. Bacemes 1 — 3 together; the pedicels 4 — 5 lines long, riowcrs about as large as 

 in the common Barberry. Fihiments inappendiculate. Berries somcwliat ovate, dark blue, 

 about the she of currants. This species was first discovered by Fremont, in 1844, on the 

 tributaries of the Rio Yirgen, in southern Utah. It is nearly allied to B. trifoliata, but differs 



in the number of leaflets, lunger racemes, and blue berrief?. 



Bkrberis trifoliata, Moric. PL Nouv. Amer, p. 111^, t. GO; Graij^ PI. Lindh. 2, p. 142. 

 Western Texas, and on hills near the Copper IMiues, New Mexico; Biydotv, Westward to 

 Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, etc.; Gregg ^ Thurber. The bright red acid berries are used for tarts. 



and are less acute than those of B, vulgaris. 



NYMriIAEACE.1]. 



NuPnAR ADVENA^ Alt. Kew. ed, 2, 3, p. 295. In water^ Devirs river, western Texas; Sept 



in fruit ; Bigeloio. 



PAPAVEPwACEiE. 



Argemoxe Mexicana, Li 7171 ; Torr. & Grmj^ FL 1, p. 61. On the lower Eio Grande, Texas ; 

 Scliott. Westward to California ; Parry. 



Fendl. p. 5, Sonora; Thurher. 



Thurh 



^hurb. p. 306* La Pena, Coahuila ; Thurber^ 

 Hort. Trans, (ser. 2) 1, p. 407; Hook. Ic. L 733 



Near the sea beacb at San Diego, and at Santa Barbara, California ; February ; Parry. Our 

 specimens are certainly annual. 



Escuscholt/ja Caliporxica, Cham,; Torr. d Gray, Fl. 1, p. 664. Monterey, and various 

 other parts of California ; Parry ^ Thurber. 



EscnscHOLTziA DouGLASir, EooJc. dt Am. Bot. Beechey.p. 320. Ravines aloi 

 from Frontera to Eagle Pass ; also in Chihuahua and Sonora ; February — April. 



g the Rio G 



'EM 



Califorkicum, Benth. I c; Lindl. BoL Beg. t. 1G79; Torr. dGray, Fl 



65, Grassy places in various parts of California ; Parry ^ Thurher. Most of the specimens 

 belong to the variety letocaipum. *^ Flowers ochroleucous, turning yellow in drying/' 



Platystigma lineare, Benih. I. c.; Hooh. Ic. t. 38 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. I. c. Near San Luis 

 Obispo, California ; April ; Parry. 



Meconella Californica, Torr. & Fr 

 on damp rocks ; March ; Thurber. 

 Romxeya Coulteri, Harv. in Hook, j 



Near San Francisco, California, 



Land. Jour. Bot. 4, p. 4, 74, t. 3. Borders of dry streams 

 south of San Diego, California; Parry. A showy plant, with large white flowers, which, in 



some of the specimens, are 4^ inches in diameter. The mature capsules and seeds are not yet 

 known. 



