Plante Lindheimeriane. 171 
(599.) ZORNIA rETRAPHYLLA, Michx. Fl. 9. p. 16. Post- 
Oak openings west of the Pierdenales. June. 
(600.) Lupinus Texensts, Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3492. 
New Braunfels. Not distinct, I fear, from L. subcarnosus. 
377. CERCIS OCCIDENTALIS (Torr. ined.): frutex; foliis 
subreniformibus obtusissimis ; leguminibus oblongis obtusissi- 
mis breviter apiculatis vix stipitatis. — C. Siliquastrum, var. 
Benth. Pl. Hartw. No. 1106, p. 307. — Var. floribus etiam 
paulo minoribus, foliis supra nitidioribus. C. reniformis, En- 
gelm. Mss. Rocky plains of the Upper Guadaloupe. March, 
in flower; June, with ripe fruit. A shrub, forming thickets, 
never becoming a tree. — This is entirely distinct from C. 
Canadensis ; but does not differ from the Californian plant of 
Fremont and of Hartweg, except that the flowers are a little 
smaller still, being no larger than those of C. Canadensis, 
and the full-grown leaves are rather thicker and more shining 
above. The Texan and the Californian plants agree in their 
short and scarcely stipitate pods (only 2 or 2: inches long, 
and two thirds of an inch broad,) which character, with the 
size of the flowers, would seem abundantly to distinguish it 
from C. Siliquastrum, the legumes of which, including the 
manifest stipe, are six, or at least five inches in length. (Dr. 
Charles Wright. — The plants from seeds sown in the spring blossom from midsum- 
mer to autumn. Stem a span high, seldom branched. Leaflets 4 lines long, the 
upper surface sparsely, the re densely beset, like the vate &c., with villous- 
hirsute loosely appressed ha Peduncles in fruit 2 or 3 inches Legumes 
half an inch long, densely Sidi straight, rather acute, tipped with the short style, 
often carrying away the inconspicuous corolla upon its apex as it enlarges, nea 
erect, only three or four produced in each capitulum, scarcely twice the length of the 
Mr. Wright has also detected Oxytropis Lambert Pursh, in Western Texas; and 
Wien up nov.) caulibus epee! ramosis puberulis ; foliis 
dato fere glabro; stipulis stipellisque subulatis minimis; racemis Taxis; tomento 
i i Te 
Stems one 
minutely pubescent underneath, mucronulate ; the lower two inches long, on petioles 
obediens eh pe successively narrower and smaller, on tioles. 
Legume less than an inch long; Be ipe ns pagis ii MAT Tae, 
