Plante Lindheimeriane. 147 
Fendi. p. 9. — Sandy banks of Green Lake, near Matagorda 
Bay, and prairies near Victoria; February, in flower and half- 
grown fruit. Also gathered by Mr. Wright on the Rio 
Grande, Texas; by Dr. Gregg at Buena Vista, and Dr. 
Edwards at Monterey, Northern Mexico; and by Fendler at 
Santa Fe, in flower only. The species assumes a variety of 
forms, according as it flowers early near the root, or from long 
procumbent stems. In the first case the pedicels are more 
upright ; in the latter they are spreading and upwardly curved, 
as mentioned in the specific character. They are sometimes 
subtended by leaves; and the racemes in Dr. Gregg’s speci- 
mens are occasionally proliferous. The bright yellow flowers 
are about half an inch in diameter. The plant is silvery with 
crowded, but distinct, appressed, scurfy stelle. 
330. V. recurvata (Engelm. ined.) : tenella, pube minuta 
lepidoto-stellata cinerascens; caulibus e radice annua pluri- 
mis gracilibus diffusis vel procumbentibus ramosis; foliis 
spathulatis integerrimis aut radicalibus repandis lyratisve, su- 
premis sublineari-oblongis ; racemis elongatis sparsifloris ; pe- 
dicellis szepe secundis, fructiferis recurvis; silicula vix aut ne 
vix stipitata globosa glabra oligosperma parva stylo tenui bre- 
viore vel subzequali; seminibus immarginatis. — V. angusti- 
folia, Scheele, in Linnea, 91, p. 584, non Nutt. — Dry and 
` stony or light soil, growing sparsely in the grass, San Antonio 
and New Braunfels. March, in flower; April and May, in 
fruit. Also around Austin, Mr. Charles Wright. — The most 
lender species; with diffusely spreading stems, from four to 
eight inches long, and short, spathulate or oblong-spathulate 
leaves. The flowers are not larger than those of V. gracilis, 
which it most resembles, and from which it is at once distin- 
guished by its nearly or quite estipitate silicles, pendulous on 
the recurved pedicels. ‘The pods are a line, or little more, 
in diameter. 
331. V. eracitis, Hook, Bot. Mag. t. 3533.  Muskit 
Flats, in wet or low, grassy places, New Braunfels. April, 
May.— Stems upright or nearly so, slender, from 8 to 16 
