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at the base, 1.5—5.5 cm. long, 3-20 mm. wide, on slender petioles 
3-5 mm. long; peduncles single, shcrter than the leaves, 7-15 
mm. long; flowers light orange, 3-3.5 cm. in diameter; calyx 
angled, its teeth deltoid, acute or acuminate, about 5 mm. long; 
petals obovate-deltoid, about 1.5 cm. long, unequally 2-lobed at 
the apex, the margins, except toward the base, ciliate with short 
glandular hairs; carpels 8-10, usually 2-awned. 
Collected at Ballast Point, near Tampa, No. 2472. Also se- 
cured by Dr. Palmer in 1874, at Fort Capron, on the Indian River, 
No. 54. 
Abundantly distinct from S. rhombifolia L. by its taller habit, 
bright light green thicker leaves, shorter peduncles, and larger 
‘deeper colored flowers. S. riombifolia, moreover, is apparently 
introduced into Florida, as it occurs only in waste places, while 
this plant is evidently indigenous to the state. 
a 
CORNUS MICROCARPA DN. SP. 
Shrub 3-4 metres tall, stems slender and recurved, branching 
toward the top. Bark gray ; branches brownish, sparingly pubes- 
cent; leaves 3-9 cm. long, 1.5-4.5 cm. broad, oval, acute at the 
base, abruptly blunt-pointed at the apex, appressed-pubescent on 
both sides, sparingly so on the upper surface, the hairs on the 
lower surface curled; petioles 2-6 mm. long, more or less pubes- 
cent ; cymes pubescent; flowers white, 6 mm. in diameter ; calyx- 
teeth deltoid, about .5 mm. long; petals ovate, about 2.5 mm. 
long, I-1.3 mm. broad, appressed-pubescent on the outside ; fila- 
ments subulate, 2.5 mm. long; anthers I.5 mm. long; fruit light 
blue, about 4 mm. in diameter, the stone slightly compressed, 
longer than broad, 2.5—-3 mm. long, 2—2.5 mm. broad. 
Collected in fruit in low woods at River Junction, Gadsden Co., 
No. 2589. Specimens of the same in flower, collected by Dr. 
Chapman, are in the Herbarium of Columbia College, and also in 
the National Herbarium. 
Nearest to C. asperifolia, but easily distinguished by its smaller 
flowers and fruit, the latter light blue and with a stone longer than 
broad. } | 
Dr. Chapman, in his Flora of the Southern United States, p. 
168, describes the fruit of the C. asperifolia of ‘that work as ‘ pale 
blue” In Coulter & Evan's monograph of the genus Cornus, the — : 
fruit of C. asperifolia is given as white. I do not remember hav- - 
ing seen a white-fruited Cornus in the state. It is probable that — 
