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Stellaria NiTENS, NnU. In Tort, & Gray^ FL 1, p. 185. S, moencliioide^, Fenzf. L c. Grassy, 

 moist places near San Diego ; Parry, The flowers in our specimens are all apetalous. 



Stellakia media, J. E. Smithy Engl. Bot. t. 587. Santa Barbara and otlier parts of Califor- 

 nia ; introduced from Europe, 



PARONYcniA RAMOSi^-rAfA, DO. Mem, Paronycli. p. 12, <. 4 ; Torr. rfe Gray^ FL 1, p. 72, San 

 Luis Rey, San Diego, &c.; Parry ^ Thnrher. The large, imbricated, ecarious stipules give 

 this plant a silvery appearance. There are commonly 5 stamens, ^uth as many intermediate 

 oblong scales which are about the length of the filanientg. 



Paroxycuia Jamesii, Torr. d: Gray, FL 1, p. 170; Gray^ PL JVrighty 1, p. 13. Ravines, 



Rock cre^k ". July; Bujeloio. Ojo de Vaca, Chihuahua; Thurher. 



Paronvcuia Lindhei.veri, Engelm. in Gray^ PL Lindh, 2, p. 152. IS^Iiddle and western Texas. 



Kear the hist species. 



Spergularia rubra, Pers. Syn. 1, j). 504; 6Va?/, Gen. IlL 2, p. 25, L 107. Banks of the Rio 



Grande and seacoast of California, 



Drymaria glandulosa, BariL; Gray, PL H^righty 2, p. 18. Hills and rocky places, Copper 

 Mines, New Mexico ; August — ^Octoher ; Bigelow. 



Drymaria frankenioides, if. B. K.; DC. Prodr. ] , p. 305. Plains near the city of Chihuahua; 

 October ; Thurher. Arroyo near the Rio Grande, in Chihuahua ; Parry. 



Drymaria spergularioides, Gray^ PL FendL p. 11. Ravines and low places near Lascuta j 

 July; and near the Copper Mines; August; Bigelow. 



Drymaria efftjsa, Gray^ PL Wright^ 2,^. 19. Hills near Santa Cruz, Sonora ; September ; 



Thurber, 



PORTULACACE^. 



Calaxdrixia Menziesii, Hooh. FL Bor. Am. 1,^. 223, t. 70. Grassy places near San Diego, 



March ; Parry. 



Calandrixia maritima, Nutt. in Torr. dc Gray^ FL 1, p. 197. On the Coronados islands, on 



the coast of California ; May; Tkurher. 



Trianthema MONOGYXA, Linn. J DO. Prodr. 3, p. 352. Plains of the Limpia, Texas; July; 

 Bigelow. Magdalenaand Sierra Yerde ; Thurher, Schott. 



Taltnum auraxtiacum, Englm. in PL TAndh. 2, p. 154 & /9. angustissimu3I, in Gray, PL 

 Wright^ 1, p. 14. Gravelly hills near Rock creek and Van Horn's Wells, Texas ; Bigelow. 

 Sandy places, Sonora ; Sghott, Thurber. 



Talinum parviflorum, NuU. in Torr. & Gray^ FL 1, p. 197. Stony hills at the Copper Mines 

 and El Paso, New Mexico ; also in Western Texas ; Bigelow^ Thurber. 



Talixum reflexuMj Cav. Gray, PI. Wright, 2, p. 20. Dry prairies and hill-sides, San Pedro 

 river up to the Pecos, and along the Eio Grande from EI Paso to Presidio del Norte ; June 

 October. 



TALrxorsrs fructescexs, Gray, PL Wright, 1, p. 15, t. 3. Gravelly hills along the Rio Grande, 

 from £1 Paso downward to the mouth of Great Canon ; also on the Cibolo ; June — August ; 



If 



Parry, Bigelow. 



Spragnea oibellata, Torr. PL Fremont, in Smithson. Confrib. 6, p. 4, t. 1. Damp rocks, 

 Napa county, California ; Thurber. 



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