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DiosPTKOS Texana, ScJieele in Linnma. 22, p. 145. Hill sides, Fort Inge to Escondido 

 creek, and near Eagle Pass, western Texas • Sdwtt^ Parry. Flowers in March. Fruit ripe in 



August, about an incli in diameter. 



SAPOTACE^. 



BuMELiA BECLiNATA, Vent. Gil. PI. t. 22, Jide Alph. PC. Prodr. 8, p. 190: var. fructibus 

 I majoribus ; . floribus fasciculis numerosioribus. On tlie Kio Grrande, from Laredo to tbe mouth 



of the river ; ScJiott. Hills and plains near Live Oak creek ; Bigeloio. No. 1434^ Wright. 

 Matamoras; Berlandier, Nos, 1513, 3012 and 3048. A tree 25-30 feet high. It seems to 

 differ from the plant of the Southern Atlantic States chiefly in the larger and more fleshy fruit. 

 This is oblong, nearly three-fourths of an inch in length, sweet and edible* Testa smooth and 

 shining, mottled with brown. Cotyledons united, thick and fleshy. Albumen wholly wanting. 



THEOPHRASTACEiE. 



Jacquinia pungexs, Gray^ PI. TJmrh. in Mem. Amer. Acad. Art. dt Sc. n. ser. 5, i). 325 



Hills between Eavon and Ures, Sonora : Thiirher. 



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PLANTAGINACE^. 



Plantago majob, Linn. Sp.^ j^. 163. Banks of the Acec^uia, near El Paso; May; Bigeloio. 

 (No. 1441, Wright.) Probably introduced among agricultural seeds by the early Mexican 

 settlers. 



Plantago Patagonica, var. gnapiialioides, Gray in Torr. Bof. Whij)p. Bep. p. 117, d Man. 

 Bot, ed. 2, p. 269. P. guaphalioides, Nutt. Gen. 1, p. 100. Western Texas, New Mexico, 

 Sonora and California. Var. spicis oblongis vel capltatis. Dry hills, Sonora ; Schott. San 



Diego, California ; Parry. (No. 1438, Wright.) 



Plantago Virginica, Linn. Sp.y p. 163. Sandy banks of the Rio Grande, Eagle Pass, etc. 

 Also in Sonora ; Schott. 



PLUMBAGINACE^. 



■ Statice Limonium, Linn. Sp.^ p. 394. Saline soils, western Texas, and on the Rio Grande near 

 its mouth ; Bigeloio^ Schott. Salt places near San Diego, California ; Parry. 



PRIMULACE^. 



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\^p. 137; Nutt. Gen. l^p. 118. Mule Spring and Cook's 

 Spring, western Texas ; April ; Bigelow. Tubac, Sonora ; March ; Parry. 



Samolus Valeraxdi, Linn.y var. Americanus, Gray Man. ed. 2,^. 274. S. floribundus, H. B. 

 K. Nov. Gen. & Sp. 2, p. 224. Low places, borders of the Limpio ; Swlyy Bigelow. Banks 

 of streams^ Sonora, May; Capt. E. K. Smith. California; Parry. 



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Samolus ebracteatus, H. B. K., I. c. p. 223, t. 129. Common along the Rio Grande 



from El Paso to the Gulf, and on the seacoast of Texas. 



Monterey 



Meadia, Linn. Sp.p. 207 ; Torr. in Bot. Whippl. Pep., p. 118. Grassy places 



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