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soft silk, not spines. Mower small, white with faint rosy tinge. Green 
flesh very acrid and bitter; said to cause hair to grow. Det. Towns. (40) 
30. Cereus princeps Hort. Wiirzb. (= C. variabilis Engelm.). — June. 
“Jacobo.” Mr. Coville writes that this is the first record of this species 
on the Texas side of the Rio Grande. (44) 
31. Erigeron tenuis T. & G. — March 12. Southwest Texas. (9) 
32. Parthenium hysterophorus Linn. — June 22. Florida, Louisiana, 
Texas, and the West Indies to northern Patagonia. (79) 
33. Lepachys columnaris yar. pulcherrima T. & G. — April 29. South- 
west Texas. (31) 
34. Viguiera sp. ? — March 22 to 24. About two feet, stems slender, 
flower-stems eight to ten inches without leaves; flowers deep yellow, 
petals not long. (18) 
35. Verbesina encelioides B. & H. — April 29. South Texas to New 
Mexico, and Mexico. Also Bahamas, and Florida (introduced from Mex- 
ico, according to Chapman). (25) 
36. Verbesina sp.? — April 29. Fowers whitish, resembling boneset. 
(34) 
37. Gaillardia pulchella Foug. — April 29. Southwest Texas. Flowers 
purplish-orange, with deep yellow border. (27) 
38. Cnicus virginianus Pursh. — June. Common in swampy places in 
palmetto hammocks at San Tomas. Occurs in pine-barren swamps of 
Florida northward. (71) 
39. Sonchus oleraceus Linn. — June 3. Southern States to Yucatan 
(introduced). (62) 
40. Asclepias longicornu Benth. — April 29. Habit spreading, flowers 
whitish. Southwest Texas. (26) 
41. Eustoma silenifolium Salisb. — June 23. Occurs from Arkansas, 
Texas and Mexico, to Venezuela. Also in Cuba and Haiti, in the West 
Indies. (80) 
42. Cordia boissieri A. DC. — June 17. “Anacahuita.” Native and cul- 
tivated. In bloom, in east-central Nuevo Leon, September 29. Lower 
Rio Grande to Nuevo Leon, and through Tamaulipas to Tampico. (75) 
43. Heliotropium parviflorum Linn. — June 3. West Indies and Mex- 
ico to Brazil. (61) 
44. Litliospermum sp.? — March 12. (5) 
45. Ipomoea sinuata Ortega. — April 29. Southern United States, 
West Indies, Mexico, and tropical America. (24) 
46. Solanum triquetrum Cav. — March 13 to 24. Often in brush 
fences, somewhat climbing or trailing. South and west Texas. (10) 
47. Solanum eleaginifolium Cav. — Common. South and west Texas, 
southern New Mexico, and northern Mexico. (38) 
