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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    or three circles, the innermost partially abortive.” Engelm. — Closely allied to the Amygdalus microphylla, H. B. K., and very likely to prove a variety of it, judging from the fragment of that plant which I possess from Schlechtendal. These, with P. glandulosa, belong to the subgenus Microcerasus, Webb, characterized by Spach in Ann. Sci. Nat. 2. Ser. 19. p. 125; a group “intermediate between the true Cerasi and Prunus [but referred by these authors to the former] and also nearly allied to some Amygdali.” It embraces Cerasus pros- trata, C. orientalis, and some other oriental species. 389. P. rivularis, Scheele in Linncea 21. p. 594. P. Tawakonia, Lindheimer, Mss. (which name was doubtless appended to the specimen received by Scheele.) Banks of streams and margins of bottom-woods, forming thickets near the water, rarely on higher places, Upper Guadaloupe, and between Comale Creek and the Colorado. March, in flower; June, in fruit. “Shrub from two to six feet high. Fruit ripe in June, of the size of a cherry, or a little larger, acidu¬ lated, cherry-red. The Tawakony Indians boil them and eat them with honey. Called Tawakony Plump Lindheimer.— The same plant extends northward into Missouri, and passes, if I mistake not, into an evident form of Prunus Americana, or P. nigra, if the two species are to be distinguished. P. Texana, Scheele, l. c. gathered at New Braunfels, by Mr. Ro- mer, is probably the same species. f Cerasus serotina, DC.; Torr. Gray, FI. 1. p. 410. On the Pierdenales. April, in flower. A tree or a large shrub. (608.) Rosa foliolosa, Nutt, in Torr. fy Gray, FI. 1. p. 460. Hills of the Sabinas and Three Creeks. May.— Stems less than a foot high, from a creeping rootstock. “ Flower very fragrant.” f Cratjegus coccinea var. ? mollis, Torr. &f Gray, FI. 1. p. 465. C. mollis, Scheele in Linncea, 21. p. 569. Muskit flats near San Antonio. March, in flower. — If this be admitted to rank as a species, it must bear, I believe, the name of C. subvillosa, Schrad.