Plante Lindheimeriane. 155 
LINACEZE. 
f Linum Boorrn, Planchon in Lond. Jour. Bot. Typs 
475. Upper Pierdenales, sparsely in sandy prairies.—'T'he 
specimen is entirely in fruit, and has lost nearly all its leaves. 
Some remarks on this species will be found under No. 581. 
331. L. Boorru, Y. RuPESTRE ; caulibus gracilentis; foliis 
lineari-subulatis ; sepalis paulo latioribus; capsulis minoribus. 
— L. rupestre, Lindheimer in sched. New Braunfels, with 
Cereus cespitosus, growing sparsely on rocky soil or in crev- 
ices of naked rocks. May.— Stems several, from a firm, 
probably not really perennial root, very strict and slender, 
a foot or more high. Petals three or four times the length of 
thelanceolate-ovate, cuspidate, and glandular-ciliate sepals. 
338. L. uurricauLE, Hook. in Torr. & Gr. Fl. 1. p. 678; 
Planchon in Lond. Jour. Bot. 1, p. 185. Upper Pierden- 
ales; socially in naked, clayey places in open oak woods. 
October; mostly in fruit. Flowers small, yellow. Styles 
united almost to the summit. Branches clothed with the 
minute lanceolate-subulate leaves quite up to the flower; the 
dan ws branched. Leaves $-1inchlong, 1-3 ren "wes Flowers 4-6 
lines os very pretty in the larger forms, - n from 8-9 o'clock, A. M. (St. 
Leni: pcm earlier than yer other species. Capsule i the ini which is 
formed by the enlarged base of th iduous calyx, 2-23 lines in diameter. — The 
ds of both forms are absolutely identical, so that the difference i in the number of 
stamina and stigmata, and in the size and color of thes flower, cannot them 
song species, a as Mr. - Lindheimer r suggests. He that Oe leaves - a have an 
* Toretifolia : ad axillee pilose; eaule tereti; ols is plus minus teretibus, basi 
capsulee maturce de- 
pau 
ciduis ; . petalis violaceis capsule margine circulari tam 
4. P. PILOSA, eens 
emarginatis 
ter quaterve brevioribus; staminibus n sub-5 exsertís 
- ini ea 
1 1 Com: onm. 
brevioribus; sem 
mon in eultivation, E here “and there almost naturalized ; ue tu from Chili, 
Flowers 20 - 24 lines in diameter, CER P. M. in sunsh ine. Stig- 
mata glandular, h argin , yellowish or gree 
