AUG. igoo. 



PLANTVE UTOWAN^E MILLSPAUGH. 



Upper joint fusiform, thick - walled, 6 - grooved, 1.3 cm. long, 



elliptic in section, blunt pointed 

 at the apex; seed 3.8 x 1.7 mm., 

 pinkish, the cotyledons strongly 

 demarked. Lower joint globose, 

 .7 cm. long, strongly 8-ribbed; 

 seed 3.5 x 1.7 mm. 



Stems erect, terete, whitish; 

 branches virgate, 60-70 cm. long; 

 leaves 4-7 cm. long, lanceolate, 

 serrate-dentate especially be- 

 yond the middle, minutely ver- 

 rucose, narrowing to a slender 

 petiolar base. 



A, ^i Habitat: South Florida, to 



the mouth of the Mississippi 

 river. 



Specimens examined: Indian river, Florida, Palmer ij (1874); 

 Florida, Chapman; Miami, Florida, Garber, No. 6472 in herb. U. S. 

 Nat. Mus. ; Ship Island, Mississippi, Tracy 5049; Islands of Missis- 

 sippi Sound, Hilgard; Borders of saline ponds, Mississippi Sound, 

 Mohr ; Perdido Bay, Alabama, Mohr. Bermuda, Kemp, where it 

 was doubtless carried by the Gulf Stream. 



CAKILE CUBENSIS Kunth, Nov. Gen. et Sp., 5:58. 



C. Americana Cubensis deC. 



C. maritima Cubemis Chapm. 



C. cequalis Griseb. in reference to Wright's No. 1868, which 

 specimen is, however, contrary to his description of C. 

 aequalis in Fl. Br. W. I. 14. 



Silique inverted turbinate, 1.8 cm. long, the articulation slightly 

 angled and lipped. Upper joint some- 

 what turgid, inverted-turbinate, i.i cm. 

 long, 2-angled, globose in section, and 

 marked by 10 evident sulci; seed red- 

 dish-brown, 4.5x1.9 mm., somewhat 

 flattened. Lower joint terete, appear- 

 ing like a thickening of the pedicel, .7 

 cm. long, quite ligneous in texture, un- 

 marked by angles or grooves; seed 

 cylindric, 3.8 x 1.3 mm. 



Leaves lanceolate, narrowing to a 

 blunt apex and a slender petiolar base, 

 the margin entire (Wright No. 1863 in 

 herb. Gray, Cambridge), or rarely the 

 root-leaves irregularly and distantly cre- 

 nate or slightly serrate (Wright No. 1863 in herb. U. S. Nat. Mus.), 

 or all strongly serrate-dentate (Wright No. 1863 in herb. Torrey, in 

 N. Y. Bot. Card.). 



Habitat: Keys of Florida, to Yucatan coast. 



