Plante Lindheimeriana. 911 
radios umbelle et umbellularum plurimos subæquantibus ; 
floribus albis. — Genus differt a proximo Cynosiadio petalis 
inflexis, ab /Ethusa calyce 5-dentato, ab CEnanthi carpophoro 
distincto, etc. 
404. Davcosma racisraTUM, Engelm. & Gray. High val- 
leys near New Braunfels and on the Upper Guadaloupe, cov- 
ering large patches of moist prairie land, and along the 
margin of thickets. Flowering in July.— The specimens 
have only half grown fruit. 'The carpological characters of 
the genus are derived from fruiting specimens of Lind- 
heimer's collection in 1849, just received, and from others . 
gathered by Mr. Wright the same year, on sand bars of the 
upper part of the Nueces. — The whole plant exhales a strong 
odor of Carrot. 
(616.) CuxmoruHvntUM Teinturiert, Hook. & Arn.: B. 
fructu pubescente, Torr. & Gray, Fl. 1. p. 638. Shady 
woods, New Braunfels. April, May. ‘Less rigid and erect 
than.the form with Mice a ot from the same locality.” ! 
From Mr, Wright, gathered iu ren Texas, we have specimens of an evi- 
2 congener of Tauschia a except that its fruit shows about 20 small 
In this and m 
vittæ, instead of six rather lar s and many other respects, it accords 
with Musenium, Nutt., of which 1 have no specimena. eve No, 220 of Geyer’s 
i omnibus radi- 
Tavscura (Musen me) TEXANA (sp. nop nov-) : gla 
calibus utrinque viridit ee [on pinni nis $5 em impath 
inferioribus petiolulatis [on lis to- 3-6 5-partitis, 
socmeaiie cuneiformibu: ARP i lobis obli longis o obtusissimis simplicis- 
mo nudo ; ies d oo 1-2-phyllo aut nullo; rms valucello dimidiato e phyllo 
unico palma 5-fido; radiis umbellule fructu didymo brevioribus ; me 
Texas, near Austin? Mr, 
vigatis m ol ugis obsoletis. — Western 
Charles. Wright. — = Rer ns. perennial. Scape in fruit from 5 to S inches high, 
longer than the leaves. Umbel 5-7-rayed. Fruits a line and a half long, dud 
smooth; the filiform juge nearly obsolete at maturity. za 120. of Coulter's 
Mexican Collection is Tauschia n as appears specimen 
from Schlechtendal, in flower only. No. 121 is apparently a dicht species, viz, : 
Tavscuta Coutreas vet Eve Harv. ined. -): brevit er caulescens 5 foliis ternati - 
d fe: to-dentatis, dent involu loea e 
icd unico lineari integerrimo ura radiis hana rs fructu plus duplo lon- 
gioribus. —Scapes in flower and pu from 5 to, m inches i oo Goa aped the 
1 Petioles m and tt 
he larger eats an chad a half long Pedicels ato s limor in ai 
ee long; paneer 
rather large. 
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