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Bracts not at all scarious-margined. 
Bractlets spinose-toothed ..............--....------5- 28. FE. raseyi. 
Bractlets entire or nearly so...........2.--..------- 29. 1. parishi. 
1. Eryngium yuccifolium Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 1: 164. 1803. 
BE. aquaticum L. Sp. Pl. ed. 2. 336.1762 in part, not ed. 1 (fide Britten & Baker, 
Jour. Bot, 38: 243, 1900). 
From 3 to 18 dm. high, branching above; leaves broadly linear (from 
4 to 25 mm. wide or more), tapering to a point, with remotely bristly 
margins, the lower ones sometimes becoming 6 to 9 dm. long; heads 
pedunculate, ovate-globose (18 mm. long), with ovate-lanceolate mostly 
entire cuspidate-tipped bracts shorter than the head, and similar bract- 
lets; fruit scaly, about 2mm. long, with short ovate calyx lobes, and 
long rigid styles. 
Type locality, ‘*in paludosis Virginie.” 
From Connecticut to Florida, west to Minnesota, Kansas, and Texas; 
also sparingly naturalized in Connecticut (near Bridgeport). 
Specimens examined: We cite but few of the very numerous specimens of this com- 
mon species. 
Virginia: Pittsylvania County, //eller 1104, July 20, 1893. 
NortH CArouina: Catawba County, Simall & Heller 60, June 25-26, 1891. 
GrorataA: Lookout Mountain, Ruth 424, July, 1898. 
Iuirnois: Champaign County, Rose & Clinton, August 28, 1895. 
Iowa: Fayette County, Fink 188, July 19, 1894. 
Kansas: Lawrence, Stevens, July. 
ALABAMA: Auburn, Lee County, Marle & Baker, June 19, 1897; same station, 
Pollard & Maxon 78, July 10, 1900. 
Texas: Industry, Wurzlow, in 1895, 
2. Eryngium synchaetum ((rray) C. & It. 
BE. yuccaefolium synchaetum Gray in C. & R. Rev. N. Am. Umbell. 94. 9 1888. 
Resembling 7. yuceifoléum, but smaller and usually more simple; 
leaves more bristly margined, and bristles in clusters of 2 to +: heads 
more globose, 6 to 15 mm. in diameter. 
Type locality, ** Florida” in dry pine barrens near Jacksonville; 
collected by Curtiss, no. 996; type in Herb. Gray. 
From Georgia and Florida to Arkansas and eastern Texas. 
Specimens examined: 
Georacta: Leesburg, Farle, June 20, 1895, 
Frorwa: Near Jacksonville, Curtiss 996*, July, 1875; St. Augustine, WM. CC. 
Reynolds, May 20, 1886; near Jacksonville, Curtiss 4336, 5034, July, 1893. 
1894; near Eustis, Lake County, Nash 1216, 1487, July 9-31, 1894. 
ALABAMA: Spring Hill, Bush 353, August 20, 1897. 
Mississippr:; Ocean Springs, Tracy, August 8, 1889; Biloxi, Tracy, June and July, 
1891 and 1898; Ocean Springs, Pollard 1071, July 27, 1896. 
ArKANSAS: Fort Smith, Bigelow, in 1853-54. 
Texas: Eastern Texas, Hildebrand. 
