Plant. nov. in Florida subtropica indigenae, John K. Small descriptae. 267 
A species with the habit of Linum medium (Planch.) Britton, with 
which it agrees in many characters. It may readily be distinguished 
from L. medium by the ovate and toothed outer sepals; these in L. medium 
being lanceolate and entire. 
The type-specimens were collected near Nassau, N. P., Bahamas, by 
Mr. A H. Curtiss, V, 1903 (no. 207) During the fal of 1908, the 
species was discovered in the everglades between Cocoanut Grove and 
Cutler, Florida, by Mr. J. J. Carter and the writer (no. 565). In III, 
1904, Dr. Britton collected specimens of this species in the homestead 
country below Cutler (no. 180). 
9. Polygala corallicola Small, 1. c., p. 425. 
Polygala grandiflora var. leptophylla Chodat in Mem. Soc. Phys. et Hist. 
Nat. Genève, XXXI (1893), 57; not P. leptophylla Burch, 1822. 
Perennial, slender: stem simple or sparingly branched at the base 
and above, 2—4,5 dm tall, finely appressed-pubescent: leaves few; blades 
linear, typically narrowly so, or filiform-linear, 1—5 cm long, acute, gla- 
brous or essentially so at least above the base: racemes loosely flowered, 
l-sided: pedicels 1,5—2 mm long: flowers purplish or greenish-purple: 
outer sepals nearly 1,5 mm long, sparingly glandular-ciliate: wings 3,5—4 mm 
long, the blade suborbicular or orbicular-obovate: keel 4—4,5 mm long, the 
claw pubescent at the base: lateral petals with blades nearly 1,5 mm wide: 
stamens mostly 8: capsules oblong, 3—3,5 mm long, notched at the apex: 
seeds about 2,5 mm long, the caruncle helmet-like. 
Related to Polygala grandiflora Walt., but easily distinguished by the 
very narrow leaves, the smaller flowers with the purplish wings only 
3,5—4 mm long at maturity. 
The following specimens collected in Florida belong herre: Miami 
(Small & Nash, 27. X.—13. XI, 1901; Britton, no. 25). Between Cocoanut 
Grove and Cutler (Small & Carter, no. 764). Black Point (Small & 
Carter, 13. XI. 1903). Long Prairie, Dade Co (Britton, no. 190). Be- 
tween Homestead and Camp Jackson (Small & Wilson, no. 1666). Camp 
Longview (Small & Wilson, no. 1726). No Name Key (Pollard, Col- 
lins & Morris, no. 115). 
10. Polygala Carteri Small, 1. c., p. 426. 
Biennial, dark green, glabrous: stem erect. 1—5,5 dm tall, simplice 
or corymbosely branched above, rarely, if ever, tufted: leaves few, alter- 
nate and remote above the basal whorl; blades spatulate, sometimes 
broadly so at the base of the stem, narrowly spatulate to linear-oblong 
or nearly linear above, 1—3,5 em long, or shorter near the top of the 
stem, obtuse or acutish, entire, sessile: racemes ovoid to cylindric, mostly 
about 1 em long during early anthesis, often becoming 2,5—3,5 cm long: 
bracts lanceolate, acuminate, 1,5—2 mm long: pedicels barely 1 mm long: 
sepals decurrent on the pedicel, the upper sepal lanceolate, acuminate: 
wings oblong, scarcely twice as long as the sepals, about 3 mm long, 
erose near the mucronate-acuminate apex: keel terminating in several, 
often clavate or forked processes: lateral petals nearly oblong, notched 
