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TRADESCANTIA. 
Four well marked species of this genus are found within our 
bounds: 
Tradescantia rosea, Vent., occurring from Maryland to Florida 
and west to Missouri and Texas. : 
Tradescantia net, L., not 7: Virginica, as usually 
written. 
Tradescantia pilosa, Lehm., Nov. Act. Ac. Caes. Leop. xiv. Pt. 
2, 822, t. 48 (1828). 
This is a good species, entirely distinct from 7. Virginiana. It 
has stout stems which are more or less pubescent or pilose, often 
flexuous (7: flexuosa, Raf.), and is especially distinguished by its 
numerous umbels (1-7), commonly dense and many-flowered, 
terminal and axillary or on axillary branches. Pedicels and sepals 
usually glandular hairy. Mr. Eggert, of St. Louis, Mo., in sending 
specimens from his neighborhood, writes that it has larger leaves 
and more numerous flowers and blossoms much later than 7; 
Virginiana (July). 
Tradescantia brevicaulis Raf. Atl. Jour. 150 (1832). Probably — 
the plant named “7: Virginica, var. villosu, Watson,” in Gray’s 
Manual, Ed. 6. This should not be confounded with 7 Virgint- 
ana, as it is clearly distinct. A dwarf plant, one to six inches 
high, or oftentimes acaulescent. The stem, leaves, pedicels and — 
calyx are pilose with long spreading hairs which are seldom if 
ever glandular. The leaves are narrow and sometimes 12 inches 
in length; the bracts wider and often larger. Umbels 4 to 12- 
flowered, with rays I to 2 inches long. Corolla rather small, blue 
or rose-purple. 
Mr. Eggert collected this form in Missouri, and writes that it 
grows on rocky hillsides, and blossoms very early, scarcely any 
flowers to be seen by the end of May. Rafinesque reports it from 
Illinois and Kentucky. 
| SCITAMINE. 
Thalia dealbata, Roscoe, recently received from Mr. Een é Z 
grows in the swamps of Missouri. 
AMARYLLIDACE/ or 
Hymenocallis occidentalis (Leconte) Kunth. Specimens of this, 
