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fTeller, August 2, 1890; Grandfather Mountain, A. M. 
fluger, August, 1896. 
CALLIRRHOE GERANIOIDES. 
Perennial, closely pubescent with very short hairs. Stems 
mostly branched at the base; branches ascending or spread- 
ing, 1-3 dm. long, simple or nearly so: leaves few; blades 
2-2.5 cm. broad, pentagonal in outline, 5-lobed, or 5-cleft, 
cordate; lobes cuneate, coarsely toothed or cleft, mostly 
rounded or obtuse: petioles longer than the blades: peduncles 
surpassing the leaves, often 8—-ro cm. long: bractlets linear 
or linear-oblong, acute: calyx rather conspicuous, 10-12 
mm. long, about twice as large as the bractlets; segments 
lanceolate, somewhat acuminate: petals See or pink- 
purple, minutely eroded at the top, 2-2.5 cm 
In sandy bottoms, southern Texas. Spans a summer. 
Callirrhoé geranioides is related to C. ¢nvolucrata but it 
is asmaller plant. The leaf-blades are conspicuously smaller 
and the segments merely crenate or in some cases incised- 
crenate. The peduncles are fully twice or usually thrice as 
long as the subtending leaves, these organs in C. ¢nvolucrata 
are about as long as the leaves, sometimes a little shorter or 
slightly longer. 
The original specimens were collected by A. Schott, on the 
Mexican Boundary Survey. The label accompanying the 
specimens bears this record: Rio Bravos del Norte. Cafion 
between Eagle Pass and Laredo, on sandy bottom land, 
March, April, 1852. 
PassIFLORA BIGELOVII. 
A slender climbing vine with glabrous foliage. Leaves 
rather numerous; blades as long as broad or nearly so, 1-8 
cm. broad, reticulated at maturity, deeply 3-lobed; middle 
lobe usually cuneate, again 3-lobed ; lateral lobes unequally 
once or twice lobed, all lobes usually bristle-tipped: petioles 
2-6 mm. long, with 2 glands at the base of the blade: pe- 
duncles surpassing the petioles: involucres wanting: calices 
ne 2 cm. broad, greenish; sepals oblong, obtuse: corolla 
ing: filaments of the crown shorter than the sepals: 
ce subglobose, about 1 cm. in diameter 
