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1. Hydrotrida caroliniana (Walt.) Small. 



Oholaria caroliniana Walt., Fl. Carol. 166. 1788. Type not verified, but de- 

 scription sufficiently distinctive. Doubtless from lower South Carolina, 

 a district where the species now considered is frequent. 



Hydrotrida caroliniana (Walt.) Small, 1. c. 165. 1913. 



Corolla uniformly sky-blue. Flowering from May to September 

 and soon ripening fruit. 



Aquatic in shallow water, sandy soil, edges of ponds and in small 

 streams in long-leaf pineland of southern Louisiana. Ranges 

 within this belt, from North Carolina to Florida and Louisiana. 



Louisiana. Calcasieu: Lake Charles, Allison 209 (U, Y); Per- 

 kins, Pennell 10213 (Y). Rapides: Alexandria, Hale (C, U) . 



5. BRAMIA Lamarck. 

 Bramia Lam., Encyc. Meth., Bot. 1: 459. 1785. 

 Type species, B. indica Lam., of India. 



1. Bramia monnieri (L.) Pennell. 



Lysimachia monnieri L., Cent. PI. 2 : 9. 1756. " Habitat in America meridion- 

 ali. Hallman." D. Z. Hallman sent to Linne specimens from Spain, so it 

 would appear that the type of this was probably transmitted through him 

 from some source in Spanish America. 



Bramia monnieri (L.) Pennell, in Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 71: 243. 1920. 



Corolla, with tube yellowish within, elsewhere white or tinged 

 with pink. Flowering from April to September, and soon ripening 

 fruit. 



Sandy shores, expecially where subject to inundation, along 

 the coast of Louisiana and Texas, common within tidewater, both 

 where brackish and where fresh; also inland along streams, in 

 central Texas to Burnet and Gillespie counties. From North Car- 

 olina southward through Tropical America. Also in the Old World 

 Tropics. 



Louisiana. Calcasieu: Lake Charles, Alhson 62 (U). Jefferson: 

 Gretna, Ball 363 (U, Y). Plaquemines: South Pass, Tracy & 

 Lloyd 90 (U). 



Texas. Bexar: (U). Brazoria: Columbia, Bush 1567 (U). San 

 Antonio, Schulz 149. Burnet: Granite Mountain, Pennell 1046: 

 (A, H, M, U, Y). Cameron: Rio Hondo, Chandler 7016 (U). 

 Comal: New Braunfels, Lindheimer 1056 (A, T, U, Y). Galveston. 

 Galveston, Ward (U, Y). Gillespie: Threadgill, Jenny 612 (U). 

 Guadalupe: Seguin, Groth 182 (U). Harris: Hockley; Houston, 

 Hall 415 (U). Nueces: Corpus Christi, Heller 1823 (A, U, Y). 

 Travis: Barton Creek, Young (T). 



