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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    no means well characterized by Mr. Scheele. According to Lindheimer it is called Mountain Grape, and covers large tracts of rocky soil. It does not climb, but the stems are upright, and only two or three feet high. The branches are small, and the berries, of the size of peas only, are black, very sweet, and the most grateful as well as the earliest ripened grape of Texas. Dr. Engelmann informs me that he met with the same species in Western Arkansas, growing in similar situations. Also that a specimen exists in Michaux’s Herbarium, on the same sheet with V. riparia. The leaves are somewhat glaucous, and in appearance between those of V. riparia and V. vulpina, but much smaller than in either. 359. V. aestivalis, Michx. FI. 2. p. 230: var. tomento albo, nec fulvo. Shady banks of streams, New Braunfels, &c.; flowering in May ; the fruit ripe in August. “ Climbing high trees. Berries of the size of peas, in large bunches, very black; the taste vinous and pleasant.' Flowers very odor¬ ous.” Lindh. — Under the name of “ V. candicans, (n. sp.,) Engelm. ined., I have from Lindheimer, as also from Mr. Wright, Texan specimens of what appears to be a variety of V. Californica, Benth., with the leaves somewhat less dentate and more densely tomentose underneath. f Vitis (Cissus) incisa, Nutt, in Torr. &f Gray, FI. 1. p. 243. New Braunfels, climbing on Muskit trees. July- September. — Leaves thick and remarkably fleshy. | V. vulpina, Linn.; Torr. Gray, l. c. V. rotundi- folia, Michx. FI. 2. p. 231. New Braunfels. April. ACERACE^]. 360. Negundo aceroides, Mcench.; foliis adultis molliter pubescentibus. New Braunfels; and banks of the Comale. March, in flower. August, in fruit. MALPIGHIACEiE. 361. Galphimia linifolia (Gray, Gen. 111. 2. p. 196. t. 173): hurnilis; caulibus gracilibus e basi pubescente herba-