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line high. Receptacle hairy as in No. 2. Styles divided into 
three simple stigmas. 
K6rnicke attributes this species to Ebenezer, a place i in mid- 
_dle Georgia, collected there in July by Beyrich. It was dis- 
tributed as L. glabrum by Curtiss, No. 3,022, collected by him 
n ‘‘ Sandy shores, Walton County, N. W. Florida.” September. 
Bentham and Hooker (Gen. PI. iii. part 2, p. 1,024) regard 
KG6rnicke’s plants as well developed specimens of L. anceps, but 
the species is quite distinct both from Z. anceps and L. glabrum. 
From the former it is distinguished by its much smaller size, 
numerous scapes, smaller and more elongated heads, obtuse 
involucral scales, far smaller flowers and simple stigmas ; from the 
latter by its hairy scapes, grayish-villose, nearly globose and far 
smaller heads, 
4. LACHNOCAULON DIGYNUM, Korn. 
L. digynum, Korn. Linnza, xxvii. 570, (1854). 
I have not seen specimens of this. K6rnicke attributes it to 
Alabama, from whence it was sent by Bentham, and describes it 
as having a leafy epigean stem % to 1% inch in length. 
Leaves smooth, nervose-striate, flat, bright green, 4 to 7 lines 
long. Scapes smooth, 3 to § inches high. Sheaths obliquely 
fissured, sparsely pilose, a little longer than the leaves. Heads 
semi-globose, 1 line in diameter, grayish-villose. Involucral 
scales oblong, acute, ciliate at the apex and villous on the back, 
at length glabrescent, fuscous. Bracts spatulate, carinate. Re- 
ceptacle pilose. Flowers pedicellate; segments of the perianth 
connate toward the base, spatulate, rounded and hairy at the 
apex. Stamens three, anthers oblong, white; the triple seg- 
ments of the rudimentary pistil in the sterile flower papillose. 
Fertile flowers sessile, segments of the perianth free, obovate, nar- 
rowed at the base, pilose at the top of the back. It differs, ac- 
cording to Kornicke, from all the preceding species in having a 
two-celled ovary, two appendices, a iia style and bifid 
stigmas. 
It is regarded by Benth. and Block: l. c. as probably a 
depauperate form of Z. anceps, with heads not yet well devel- 
oped, but it appears to me to come much nearer to Z. Beyrichia- 
mum. Fresh specimens are very desirable. 
