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distinct from Zriclinium was based on the species Sanicula gre- 
garia. 
So far asis known, gregaria is the only one of our species hav- 
ing odorous flowers, but the fragrance is of the faintest and quite 
unworthy to be compared with the sweet scent of Reseda odorata 
with which “ 7riclinium odoratum” is credited. 
Upon the whole, therefore, we have every reason to believe that 
“ Iriclinium odoratum’ was a composite production pretty certainly 
containing elements of gregaria and, not improbably, of Marylan- 
@icaand Smalli, one or both. On this understanding it might be 
held that the name Samcula gregaria should give place to Sanicula 
odorata (Raf.), and it would certainly be difficult to show that 
“ Triclinium odoratum” was not, in part, the plant now known as 
Sanicula gregaria. To my own way of thinking, however, a res- 
urrectionist acting under the law of priority can rightly proceed 
only on the authority of facts so unequivocal as to admit of no 
conflict of opinion whatever. 
SANICULA FLORIDANA Nf. sp. 
Nearly allied to Sanicula Canadensis but commonly smaller. 
Stem-leaves more numerous and closer together, the basal ones 
especially shorter petioled, small, mostly under 2 inches wide, 3- 
divided, the lateral pair of leaflets parted nearly to the base ; leaf- 
ets thickish, obovate-cuneate, abruptly narrowed below with con- 
cave or excavated sides, adjoining leaflets thus often enclosing 
lenticular spaces, very acutely dentate-serrate and more or less 
openly cut-lobed or cleft above, the spiny-cuspidate teeth relatively 
fewer and larger than in Canadensis, their margins pale, callous 
and thickened and passing gradually into the rigid yellowish spine ; 
involucral leaves and involucres usually small and laciniate; panicle 
widely branched and slenderly dichotomous; fruit often smaller 
than in Canadensis and more nearly sessile, the bristles, especially 
below the middle, rather shorter and somewhat less spreading ; 
styles sometimes longer ; commissural scar broader, pinched out 
at the contracted base of the fruit instead of continuing through 
the pedicel as in Canadensis ; pedicels of sterile flowers stout and 
very short, usually not longer than the calyx, 
Specimens examined: 
_ South Carolina: Santee Canal, W. H. Ravenel. 
Georgia: Savannah, June, 1895, John K. Small. — | 
Florida : Duval Co., open Oak Woodlands, A. H. Curtiss. Type. | 
