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ciliate; petals 6-8 cm. long; style slender, its branches not arising 
from the same point. 
HIBISCUS GRANDIFLORUS Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 46. 180 3 
Stem glabrous ; leaves hastate, three-lobed, broader than long 
(except the uppermost), the upper surface velvety with dense 
pubescence, bright green, the lower surface whitish, densely canes- 
cent; petioles glabrous; calyx prominently ribbed; bractlets 
about one-half the length of the calyx, velvety; petals 12-15 cm. 
long; style stout, its branches arising from the same point. 
‘I have seen specimens of 1. grandiflorus from several places in 
Florida. Michaux says it also occurs in Georgia and Mississippi. 
On the other hand #. /asiocarpus ranges from Louisville west- 
ward and north in the Mississippi Valley to Illinois and Missouri. 
Cavanilles gives a good figure of H. /asiocarpus which in no way 
suggests Michaux’s plant. 
NYMPHAEA ORBICULATA N. sp. 
Perennial, robust, pubescent, except the upper surface of the 
leaves, bright green. Leaves orbicular or nearly so, 3-4 dm. in 
diameter, somewhat crisped, the lobes at the base conspicuously 
overlapping, the upper surface rough with irregular papillae, the 
lower surface pubescent with short shining silvery hairs, marked 
with numerous secondary nerves ; petiole variable in length, faintly 
striate, clothed with silky pubescence, like the lower surface of the 
leaves; flowers about 6 cm.in diameter; sepals oblong-obovate, 5 
cm. long, obtuse, somewhat eroded, faintly ribbed ; disk 2 cm. in 
diameter; fruit subglobose, 4~5 cm. in diameter; seeds ovoid, 4.5 
mm. long, with a ridge on one side. 
Collected in a small lake near Thomasville, southern Georgia. 
In flower and fruit throughout July. Differs from Nymphaea 
advena in its orbicular leaves with their overlapping basal lobes, 
the peculiar pubescence and the ovoid seeds instead of the more 
nearly globose ones of that species. 
CROTONOPSIS SPINOSA Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 22: 1 $7. 100s: 
I met with quantities of this very distinct species during the 
past summer in the valley of the St. Mary’s River, in southeastern 
Georgia. In the field, as in the herbarium, this plant does not 
suggest C. dinearis, its mode of growth and habit separating it 
at once. In Engler & Prantl we notice a figure of P. spinosa, 
which is intended to represent P. /inearis. This shows that the 
species was collected some years ago and that a specimen found 
its way to Europe. 
