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BOTANY. PT 
FESTUCA TENELLA, Willd. Enum. 1, p. 116. High sandy plains northeast of the Pecos, and 
head-waters of the Colorado; March to April. 
FESTUCA MACROSTACHYA, (n. sp.) On the Pecos. This is one of numerous Grama-grasses of 
Texas and New Mexico. 
HORDEUM PUSILLUM, Nutt. Gen. 1 , p. 87; Kunth, Enum. 1, p. 457. Sandy soil; Llano Esta- 
cado ; March. 
Trat CANADENSIS, Linn.; Kunth, Enum. 1, p. 457. Near Fort Washita. 
FILICES. 
ADIANTUM CAPILLUS-VENERIS, Linn. Big Springs of the Colorado. We follow Hooker in 
uniting this and several other allied forms of Adiantum. 
NorHOCHLENA SINUATA, Kaulf. Between the Rio Grande and Llano Estacado. 
GYMNOGRAMMA TARTAREA, Desv. With the preceding. 
CHEILANTHES LINDHEIMERT, Hook. Spec. Fil. 2, p. 101, t. 107. Llano Estacado. This is the 
same as No. 2126 of Wright' s New Mexican collection. 
Prerts (PLATYLOMA) ANDROMEDXFOLIA, Kaulf, Enum. Fil. p. 188. Hueco ‘Swamps, Texas, 
This is a common fern in California. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 
Plate I. SELENIA pissecTA. Page 160. 
Fig. 1, a flower, moderately magnified ; fig. 2, a sepal; fig. 3, a petal; fig. 4, the stamens ; 
fig. 5, the young pod ; fig. 6, the mature pod—all more magnified than fig. 1; fig. 7, seed, 
still more magnified ; fig. 8, section of the same, equally magnified. 
Plate II. CALYMMANDRA CANDIDA. Page 166. 
Fig. 1, involucre and receptacle; fig. 2, chaff of the pistillate flowers; fig. 3, a pistillate 
flower; fig. 4, a perfect flower, partly enclosed in its woolly chaff; fig. 5, the same, without the 
chaff; fig 6, chaff of the perfect flower ; fig. 7, corolla of the porket flower laid open—all mod- 
etatai eiidasgulk; fig. 8, a stamen, more magnified ; fig. 9, upper portion of the style from a 
perfect flower, equally magnified ; fig. 10, the same from a pistillate flower ; fig. 11, achenium, 
pretty highly magnified ; fig. 12, bagil section of the same. 
Plate III. FILAGINOPSIS MULTICAULIS. Page 166. 
Fig. 1, involucre and receptacle; figs. 2 and 3, paleæ of a pistillate flower; fig. 4, a pistil- 
late flower; fig. 5, palea of a staminate flower; fig. 6, staminate flower ; fig. T, corolla of the 
same, laid open and showing the stamens; fig. 8, its abortive style; fig. 9, achenium; fig. 10, 
vertical section of the same—all the figures variously magnified. 
Plate IV. STENANDRIUM BARBATUM. Page. 168. 
