Plante Lindheimeriane. 0941 
846. Gariuw vircatum, Nutt. Prairies. April. 
247. Dropia rricocca, Torr. & Gr. Fl. II. p. 30. Fertile 
places in the prairie, sixteen miles west of San Felipe. (Also 
collected by Dr. Wright.) June. Cespitose, depressed, and 
very much branched. All the specimens examined are tri- 
carpellary. 
948. SeraELIA Texana, A. DC. Prodr.IX. p. 5. (Ceelos- 
tylis, Torr. & Gr.) Shady woods along the Mill-creek west 
of San Felipe. July. i 
| 949. Aster Drummonpn, Líndi. Shady, moist woods 
and thickets. - September — October. 'This species exhibits 
many varieties, in respect to pubescence, and smoothness or 
roughness. Among them the A. urophyllus and A. hirtellus 
of Lindley, are probably to be identified. 
950. CuxroPaAPPA AsTEROrpES, D C. Dry prairies. April 
to July. - 
Petalis (40-50) lineari. oblongis margine fimbriato-laceris apice bifidis aristatis ; 
staminibus nu umerosissimis zqualibus inclusis e toto bc ortis stylo compresso 
urhis ; stigmate inira 14-17-fido. — On, deserted ant-hills, near the 
Colorado River, Often a foot in diameter: our pe ioe are eight or nine en 
in diameter ter, and four or five inches high, Spines strongly annulate, stout, the 
larger ones often two inches long. Flowers paar two inches in length, twelve or 
mote aggregated in the woolly centre. The s at the base are scarlet, EE 
lo orange, - Which a pale purple or violet re extends to the apex, and 
into a delicate bristle of the same color, while the upper part of the veut is 
ore Peirus white, Tak deci margins. The flowers remain for three days, expanding 
i 
- Cer € OXSPITOSUS (n. sp.): ovato-globosus demum cylindricus, — de- 
meni Sati sub-15 e tuberculis confluentibus ortis rectis aculeis 
numerosis ex eile oblonga albo- ibméntose — glabrata radiatis n ne recurvis, 
lateralibus Jo dudes ibus ; floribus 
labris y ite ow virescentibus, intimis la 
z tis ; seals 
a voie 
dine viridi i 
of San. F i infundibuliformi 13-partito 
m * 
tno inches broad when fully expanded. Petals rose-purple. Filaments reddish at 
Yellow at the summit,” ENGEL. x : 
wey eo 
ova- 
rio oblongo tubereulis e e lana y illosa spinigeris stipato; sepalis - aa apice a 
lanceolatis — 
