AUG. 1900. 



PLANTVE UTOWAN^E MILLSPAUGH. 



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Grand Cayman, MillspaughijoS, (ibid); Mugeres Island, Yucatan, Gau- 

 nter 182 and Millspaugh ij, Armour Exped.; Silam, Yucatan, Gaumer 

 1244; and on Chica and Allison Islands, Alacran Shoals, Mills- 

 paugh (ibid). 



CAKILE EDENTULA (Bigel.) Hook. Fl. Bor. Am., 1:59. 



C. Americana Nutt., latter half of description. 



Bunias edentula Bigel. 



C. maritima Americana T. & G. in part, referring to specimen col- 

 lected at Portland Harbor, Lake Erie, by Knieskern. 



Silique somewhat turgid, about 1.8 cm. long, turbinate, the 

 articulation somewhat V-shaped. 

 Upper joint flattened pyriform, 

 strongly 4-angled, i cm. long, 

 the blunt and often ensifdrm 

 apex at times emarginate, or 2-3- 

 crenate toothed, section ovate, 

 the walls but little thicker than 

 those of the lower joint; seed 

 4.3 x 2.5 mm., flattened, the 

 cotyledons strongly marked. 

 Lower joint truncated-fusiform, 

 .8 cm., somewhat quadrate in 

 section, the angles less promi- 

 nent than those of the upper 

 joint. Seed 4.5 x 2.1 mm., more 

 cylindrical than that of the 

 upper joint. 



Leaves lanceolate-spatulate, the rounded apex crenate-toothed. 



Habitat: The Atlantic coast of North America, from Labrador 

 to South Carolina, and on the strand of the Great Lakes. Intro- 

 duced at Berkeley, California, and Fayal, Azores Islands. 



Specimens examined: Forteau, Labrador, Waghorne ; sea beach 

 at Coal River, Newfoundland, Waghorne; Eel River, Restigouche, 

 and Miramichi, New Brunswick, Fowler; Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, 

 Macoun; Seal Harbor and Vinal Harbor, Maine, S. Watson; Mount 

 Desert, Maine, Redfield; Camden, Maine, Briggs ; Beverly, Massa- 

 chusetts, Engelmann; E. Boston, Massachusetts, Boott ; Ipswich, 

 Massachusetts, Oakes ; Massachusetts, Curtiss ; Provincetown, Massa- 

 chusetts, Fritchy ; Wood's Holl, Massachusetts, Palmer; Amherst, 

 Massachusetts, Kellerman; Nantucket, Massachusetts, Vasey ; Green's 

 Farms, Connecticut, Pollard; Wading River, Long Island, Miller; 

 Fire Island, New York, Addison Brown; New Dorp, Staten Island, 

 Tyler, Kearney, Small, and South Beach, Britton; Sandy Hook, New 

 Jersey, Timmerman; New Jersey coast, Silicul, Short; Ocean View, 

 Virginia, Kearney; Smith's Island, North Carolina, Herb. Biltmore ; 

 James' Island near Charleston, South Carolina, C. E. Smith; Sullivan 

 Island, South Carolina, Ravenel; Canadian shore of Lake Ontario, 

 Britton, Macoun 180; Cacouna, Canada, Northrup 236; Lake Erie 

 strand at Buffalo, Merriani, at Portland Harbor, Knieskern, at Cedar 

 Point, Sandusky, Stair, and at Vermillion, Ohio, Ricksecker ; Michi- 



