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Petaloxyx TnuREEur, Graij, PI Thml.p. 319. (Tad. XYII.) Valley of the Gila, May 



Jiine^ Thurher ; Scltott. 



EucNiDE BAKTO^'IOIDES, Zucc.j Graijy FL Lindh. 2, p^ 101. Canons of the Rio Graiido Wlow 

 San CarloSj August — etcher ; Parry. Rocky placeSj Howard's Springs; Bigdow. Ringi^old 

 Barracks; Schott. 



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Mentzelia albicauliSj Doiifjh; Torr. & Gray^ FL 1, 7:). 531. Rooky hills on the upper Rio 

 Grande and its tributaries, also in Sonora, March to September. Mountains east of San Diego, 

 California ; Parry. The oily seeds are pounded and* used by the Indians as au ingredient of 

 their Pinole manttca^ a kind of cake. 



Mextzelia AYkigiitii, Grayy PL FendL p. 48. Mountain ravines, Rock Creek, July; Pigdon\ 



from 



>, Sonora, April; Capt. F. TT. Smith. 



Nutt. PI. Gamh. p. 180; Gray^ PI WrigJit. 1, p. 74. Ilill sides along 



Paso downward to Laredo, April to July. 



Mentzelia oligospehma, Nutt. in Bot. Mag. t. 1700; Torr. & Gray, Fl. 1, p. 533. Wet 

 ravines on the Ciholo of the Rio Grande, July ; Bigeloio. 



passiflorace.t:. 



Passiilora apfiniSj Engelm. in Gray^ PI. Lindh., 2, p. 233. DeviVs river, Texa<?, October 

 (in fruit) ; Bigelow, 



Passiflora tenijiloba, Engelm. I. c. p. 192. High prairies and hill sides, Western Texas, 

 along the Rio Grande, September, October ; Parry ^ Schott. 



Passiflora F(etida, Linn. Amcen. l^p. 223, f. 19 ; Sp, p. 1359. Thickets, Eagle Pass, June; 

 Schott. A variety which seems to be intermediate between P. foctida, Cavan. and P. hibiscifolia, 

 Lam,y having the leaves of the former and the pubescence of the latter. Mr. Schott found on 

 the Sierra del Pozo Yerde, in Sonora, a form with velvety pubescence, and almost 3-parted 

 leaves, w^ith the divisions more or less lobed and toothed. 



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Passiflora Mexicaxa, Juss. Ann. 3Ius. p. 108; t. 38, BO. Prodr. ^,p. 324. Tubac, Sonora; 

 Thurher. Leaves glaucous, 2-lobed below the middle, tbe lobes moderately diverging, 1 to 1^ 

 inch long from the bifurcation, marked near the base with a few round brownish glands. 

 Flowers three- fourths of an inch in diameter, pale purple. 



CUCURBITACE^. 



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ISECTD 



July ; Parrxj. Arroyos of the Limpia, Bigtloio. Lower Rio Grande ; S 



Gray, L c. Between the Leone and the Eio Grande; Bigelow. Mountains of Sonora; Schott. 



;renxis, Gray, PL Zindh. 2, p. 193. Plains between the Rio Grande and the 

 July; also at the Copper mines ; Bigelow. Bottom lands of Devil's river, April 

 to October : Schott. Grows in large patches ; fruit the size and shape of a small orange. 

 Cucurbita digitata, Gray, PI, Wright, 2, p. 60. Valleys among th 



Cl 



Pecos 



mountains 



July (in flower;) Schott. 



Apodanthera? undulata, Gray, I, c. Caiions of the Rio Grande, June; Bigelow, Parry. 



Santa Cruz, Sonora, June ; Schott, Thurher. The Sonorians call the fruit of this plant Melon 

 de Cayofa. 



CYCLAiiTHEEA DissECTA, Amotf, in Hook, JouT. Bot. 3, p. 280 ; Gray, PI. might. I, p. 75. 



