142 pus Plante. Lindheimeriane. 
of the same plant, with the leaves also densely silky-vil- 
lous, nearly as much so as in R. canus, Benth. Pl. Hartw. 
No. 1626, from California; indeed, it would seem to belong 
to the same species; but the carpels are, as in our R. repens, 
pointed with a pretty long, straight, or flexuous beak, slen- 
derly subulate from a broad base, and not “ mucrone valde 
recurvo fere circinnato," as R. canus is characterized. My 
specimen of the latter exhibits no fruit. The petals are in 
some specimens nearly an inch in length; in others.no larger 
than in ordinary American forms of R. repens, into which it 
passes by every kind of gradation. 
t DerPuiwiuM virescens, Nutt. Gen. 2, p. 14; Torr. & 
Gr. Fl.1. p. 32; floribus albis. Rocky prairies and hills, 
~ Comale Spring. April The species is very likely to be 
considered as only a broader-leaved variety of D. azureum. 
321. D. virescens, Nutt., var. floribus subceruleis. Dry 
and rocky prairies, and margins of thickets, New Braunfels. 
April. = 
BERBERIDACEJE. 
322. Bergeris (Tminrerwa, Gray,) rRrroLIOLATA, Mori- 
cand, Pl. Nouv. Amer. p. 113, t. 69. B. ilicifolia, Scheele in. 
Linnea;91, p. 591, non Forst. B. Remeriana, Scheele, |. c. 
22, p. 359. High shore of Matagorda Bay. Also common 
in the interior of 'Texas, on Comale Creek, at New Braunfels, 
&c. (575.) An evergreen shrub, with few branches, but 
with many stems from the same base, often forming large 
thickets. It flowers in February and March ; and the yellow 
blossoms exhale the odor of saffron. The globose berries, 
about the size of peas, ripen in May, are red, aromatic, and 
_ acid; they are called “currants” by the inhabitants, and are 
used for tarts, &ec. This interesting species, which is 
remarkable for its palmately trifoliolate leaves, is first men- - 
tioned in the Appendix to the first volume of the Flora of 
N. America, as having .been gathered by Drummond with- 
out flower or fruit. In 1841, it was named and characterized 
