266 Plant. nov.in Florida subtropica indigenae, John K. Small descriptae. 
a prominent auricle at the base of the blade; keel-petals more strongly 
curved than the wing-petals with a more slender base and a smaller 
auricle: pods mainly 3--6 cm long, curved, stipe 10—15 mm long: joints 
typically 7 mm long, more strongly curved above than below; the sides 
strongly rugose at maturity: seeds 5 mm long. 
Related to Aeschynomene sensitiva Sw. of the West Indies, but readily 
distinguished by the glabrous calyx, the petals, and the pods, whose joints 
are of a very different shape from those of A. sensitiva and have coarsely 
rugose sides. 
The type-specimens were collected in the everglades near the Slough 
between Camp Jackson and Long Key (mainland) in V. 1904 (Small & 
Wilson, no. 1960). Similar specimens with immature fruit were collected 
in the everglades near Paradise Key by Dr. Britton, in V, 1904 (no. 233). 
7. Linum Carteri Small, 1. c., p. 424. 
Annual, bright green: stem erect, 1— 3 dm tall, simple or some-what 
corymbosely branched, striate, the ridges scabrous: leaves alternate, ap- 
proximate, but not very numerous, at the base of the stem, rather distant 
above; blades narrowly linear or linear-subulate, entire, minutely spine- 
tipped, sessile: bracts glandular-serrulate: flowers short-pedicelled: sepals 
lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, 4,5—5 mm long, rather evenly 
glandular-serrulate, but the inner rather more finely and regularly so than 
the outer: corolla yellow; petals broadly cuneate, 10—12 mm long, mostly 
emarginate: filaments glabrous: styles united to near the tips, glabrous: 
capsule ovoid, 4 mm long, blunt, surpassed by the sepals. 
A very showy species related to Linum rigidum Pursh, peculiar in 
being the only representative of the group to which that species belongs, 
known east of the Mississippi River. It may be separated from Linum 
rigidum by the smaller sepals with finer and less prominently glandular 
teeth and the relatively broader and shorter capsule. 
Florida: The type-specimens were collected in the pinelands between 
Cocoanut Grove and Cutler in XI, 1903 (Small & Carter, no. 758). In 
III, 1904, Dr. Britton found specimens in the homestead country beyond 
Cutler (no. 170), while in V, 1904, Mr. Wilson and the writer dis- 
covered it in great abundance between the last named locality and Camp 
Longview (no. 1721). 
8. Linum Curtissii Small, 1. c., p. 424. 
Annual, glabrous: stems erect, 2—6,5 dm tall, corymbosely branched 
above, or sometimes simple, slightly striate in age: leaves mainly alter- 
nate, ascending or erect: blades oblong-spatulate or oblanceolate on the 
lower part of the stem to linear or nearly so above, 0,5—1,5 mm long, 
acute or aeutish or somewhat acuminate, entire: flowers short-pedicelled: 
sepals 2—2,8 mm long, ovate, sometimes narrowly so, somewhat acumi- 
nate, the outer with few irregularly placed glandular teeth, the inner 
with more numerous and more regularly placed teeth: corolla yellow, 
mostly about 8 mm broad: capsules spheroidal, about 2,5 mm high, sur- 
passed by the sepals. 
