Plantae Lindheimerianae, Part II. An account of a collection of plants made by F. Lindheimer in the Western part of Texas, in the years 1845-6, and 1847-8, with critical remarks, descriptions of new species, etc / By Asa Gray, M.D.

  • Gray, Asa, 1810-1888.
Date:
1850]
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Credit: Plantae Lindheimerianae, Part II. An account of a collection of plants made by F. Lindheimer in the Western part of Texas, in the years 1845-6, and 1847-8, with critical remarks, descriptions of new species, etc / By Asa Gray, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the same plant, with the leaves also densely silky-vil¬ lous, nearly as much so as in R. canus, Benth. PI. Harfw. No. 1626, from California; indeed, it would seem to belong to the same species; but the carpels are, as in our R. repens, pointed with a pretty long, straight, or flexuous beak, slen¬ derly subulate from a broad base, and not “ mucrone valde recurvo fere circinnato,” as R. canus is characterized. My specimen of the latter exhibits no fruit. The petals are in some specimens nearly an inch in length; in others no larger than in ordinary American forms of R. repens, into which it passes by every kind of gradation. j- Delphinium virescens, Nutt. Gen. 2, p. 14; Torr. Gr. FI. 1. p. 32; floribus albis. Rocky prairies and hills, Comale Spring. April. The species is very likely to be considered as only a broader-leaved variety of D. azureum. 321. D. virescens, Nutt., var. floribus subcaeruleis. Dry and rocky prairies, and margins of thickets, New Braunfels. April. BERBERIDACEiE. 322. Berberis (Trilicina, Gray,') trifoliolata, Mori- cand, PL Nouv. Amer. p. 113, t. 69. B. ilicifolia, Scheele in Finncea, 21, p. 591, non Forst. B. Roemeriana, Scheele, 1. c. 22, p. 352. High shore of Matagorda Bay. Also common in the interior of Texas, on Comale Creek, at New Braunfels, &c. (575.) An evergreen shrub, with few branches, but with many stems from the same base, often forming large thickets. It flowers in February and March ; and the yellow blossoms exhale the odor of saffron. The globose berries, about the size of peas, ripen in May, are red, aromatic, and acid; they are called “ currants ” by the inhabitants, and are used for tarts, &c. This interesting species, which is remarkable for its palmately trifoliolate leaves, is first men¬ tioned in the Appendix to the first volume of the Flora of N. America, as having been gathered by Drummond with¬ out flower or fruit. In 1841, it was named and characterized IISRASV hlV