CRESSA L. Sp. PL 223 (1753). 
Cressa aphylla n. sp. 
From an apparently perennial root ; low, about six inches high, slender, dif¬ 
fusely branched from the base; whole plant covered with scales and 
appressed hairs ; leafless, each branch subtended by an ovate, acute 
or acutish bract or scale, smaller ones scattered along the naked 
branches and at the base of each flowering pedicel ; flowers on very 
short pedicels ; calyx bibracteolate, the bracts appressed, lanceolate 
or ovate lanceolate, barely half the length of the calyx ; calyx-teeth 
oblong-lanceolate, equalling the tube of the corolla; corolla small, 
yellowish white, its lobes ovate or triangular-lanceolate, pubescent 
externally, especially at the tip, with white silky hairs; stamens and 
styles exserted ; upper part of ovary pubescent with white silky 
hairs. 
A handsome little plant, remarkable for its absence of proper leaves. 
Ashy in color, due to the scale-like covering and pubescence on the 
stems. Found on the “Flats” at Corpus Cliristi, on the east side of 
the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railroad, a short distance beyond the 
freight station. In March, when the plants were only an inch or two 
high, they were found infested with a fungus, Aecidiiwi Cressae. 
May 31 (1811). 
CUSCUTA L. Sp. PI. 124 (1753). 
Cuscuta arvensis Beyrich ; Hook. FI. Bor. Am. 2: 77 (1834), as 
synonym. 
In sand on the beach at the Oso, on Lycium Carolinianum, Lepidium 
Virginicum , and other low plants, growing in a thick, tangled mass. 
April 12 ("1549), type locality, “ N. W. America.” 
PHLOX L. Sp. PL 151 ( 1753 )- 
Phlox Drummondii Hook. Bot. Mag. t. 3441 (18 ). 
In rich soil abopt Kerrville, especially in damp places. A plant col¬ 
lected in sand along Nueces Bay, called P. Drummondii villosissima is 
apparently only a form of the species. When growing directly in the 
sand it was weak procumbent, with stems almost two feet long and viscid 
pubescent, but plants growing only a few feet distant in sod, were erect, 
only three or four inches high and much less pubescent (1435). 
April 24 (1641). 
