Plante Lindheimeriane. 935 
Amer. Phil. Soc. l. c. p. 159. Ponds near Houston. Sep- 
tember, &c. ' 
184. Commetyna aNGUsTIFOLIA, Michx. Houston. May. 
185. Xvnis Canorixiswa, Walt. 8? scaBRA: scapo apice 
magis ancipiti, aciebus subtilissime serrulato-scabris. X. sca- 
bra, Engel. MSS. Prairies, west of the Brazos.. July. 
- 186. X. suLBosa, Kunth, enum. IV. p. 11, (ex descr.) 
With the preceding. The North American species still need 
thorough revision. . 
187. Hypoxis erecta, 8. xsrivaLIs: scapo subunifloro 
folia subeequante ; capsulis subglobosis, (ut in «.) In prairies 
Which have been burned over in spring. July. . : , 
188. H. erecra, y. LEPTOCARPA (H. leptocarpa, Engel. 
MSS.) : floribus minoribus; capsulis prismatico-oblongis el- 
lipticisve ; seminibus in singulis loculis: uniserialibus 4-6. 
Sandy soil, along rivulets, June — August. 
189. Evsryris PURPUREA. (Nemostylis ? purpurea, Herbert, 
in Bot. Mag. sub. t. 3779.) Open woods and prairies, from - 
Houston to the Brazos. June, July. Also, Texas, Drum- 
mond, and Western Louisiana, Dr. Hale. The diagnostic 
characters of this genus and Nemostylis are subjoined. A 
Phia, Herb. differs, according to the character,’ in having the 
mner divisions of the much more unequal perigonjym navicu- 
late, and differently shaped from the outer, in the very short 
filaments, &c., and in being tuberiferous instead of bul- 
iferous, ' 
>, woe Specimens of several of these I ridaceous plants, of very simil 
in the drj state, appeai 
: hia, specimens of the Herbertia exrülea. Uuder No. 415, we have 
ylis acuta (geminifiora, Nutt. Ixia acuta, Barton,) as well as Gelasine 
In the latter the filaments are certainly monadelphous, and the style bas 
hree short and « lobes: A $ 
