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GRATIOLA HISPIDA (Benth.). 
Sophronanthe juspida Benth.; Lindl. Intr. Nat. Syst. Ed. 2, 445. 
1836. 
Gratiola subulata Baldw.; Benth. DC. Prodr. 10: 405. 1846. 
This little plant, which bears when growing an aspect similar 
to that of a small P4/ox, was found in abundance on Deer Island 
(No. 1187). I am by no means convinced that a comparative 
study of the species of Graziola will not justify Bentham’s original 
segregation of G. /ispida as a distinct genus. 
RUELLIA HUMILIS Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. (II.) 5: 182. 1833-7. 
Ruellia ciliosa var. longiflora A. Gray, Syn. Fl. 2: Part 1, 326. 
1878. 
This species was found by Nuttall on iss low, scarcely caules- 
cent plant of which my number 1221, collected at Waynesboro, is 
representative. Specimens are in the National Herbarium ob- 
tained by Curtiss in Florida (no. 149), and also by Nash (no. 
183) in the same State. Dr. Gray afterwards included it in his 
variety /ongiflora of R. ciliosa Pursh. The original description 
gives no warrant for applying the name Aumilis to the tall leafy 
plants that are known everywhere as typical cosa; and even in 
cases where the stem is more than usually elongated, the obovate 
obtuse leaves are always so distinguishable from the ovate more 
or less acute leaves of the latter species. 
Carpuus Leconte! (T. & G.). 
Cirsiuin Lecontei T. & G. Fl. N. Am. 2: 456. 1841. 
Cnicus Virgintanus Hook. Comp. Bot. Mag. 1: 48. 1835. Not 
Pursh. 
A single specimen of this handsome species was collected ina 
moist pine barren near Ocean Springs. 
Carpuus Nutratiu (DC.). 
Cirsium Nuttalhi DC. Prodr.6: 651. 1837. 
Cnicus glaber Ell. Bot. S. C. & Ga. 2: 270. 1824. Not Carduus 
glaber Nutt. Gen. 2: 129, 1818, nor Steud. Nom, Ed. 1, 152. 
462%; 
This species being exclusively southern in its range, it is prob- 
able that Nuttall’s Carduus glaber, referred in his description to 
New Jersey, is a form of C. muticus. 
