50 MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN. 
C. FLORIDANUS n. sp. 
Annual or suffruticose, ligneous, slender, erect, freely 
branching, di- or trichotomous above, appressed stellate, 
scabrous, 2 to 5 dm. high; leaves ovate or elliptical below, 
lanceolate or oblong above, 1 to 2 cm. long, serrato-crenate, 
short petioled, with two subsessile glands at the base; 
stipules small and subulate; racemes 2 to 4 cm. long, ses- 
sile, 10- to 20-flowered; staminate flowers small; bracts 
bistipulate-glandular; sepals ovate; petals narrow, ciliate ; 
stamens about 10; receptacle pilose; pistillate flowers 1 to 
4, at base of raceme, short pedicelled or subsessile; bracts 
large, deltoid; calyx segments smooth, oblanceolate or 
linear, equalling or slightly exceeding the capsule; gland 
strongly 5-lobed; receptacle velutinous; petals mere sub- 
ulate rudiments; styles 3, biparted; capsule oval, unequally 
triquetrous, about 4 mm. long; seeds oval, 3 mm. long, 
strongly biconvex; caruncle large and thickish.—Plate 15. 
Specimens examined from Florida (Curtiss no. 2523, Gasparilla Key, 
in sand, no. 5398, sandy ground near Lake Worth Inlet, no. 5956, dry pine 
barrens near Hains City; Garber, Sarasota, 1876; Chapman, Punta Pass; 
Simpson, 1880, Sarasota Bay, no. 391, San Carlos Bay, 1891. 
C. eLanpuLosus LiInDHEIMERI Muell. Arg. in DC. Prod. 
157: 685. 1866; Coulter, Bot. West. Texas 399. 1894. 
Low, 2 to 4 dm. high, striae on stems not conspicuous ; 
stellate hairs short and subappressed; lower leaves ellipti- 
cal or oblong-ovate, 1 to 3 cm. long, upper 1 to 1.5 em. 
long; apex obtuse, margins denticulate or serrulate to 
subentire, puberulent above, grayish-green below. — Plate 
16; 7:8: 
Specimens examined from Texas (Lindheimer no. 691, Llano; Palmer 
no. 1244, Wilson Co.; Croft, San Diego, 1884-88; Buckley, Austin, 1882; 
Nealley, Corpus Christi, 1889; Schott, in Mexican Boundary Survey [no. 
1303], 1852). 
C. GLANDULOSUS SHORTI n. var. 
Lower leaves oval, equalling the petioles in length, 2 to 
5 cm. long, upper ones oblong, the petioles shorter; apex 
