BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 



Vol. 3. FEBRUARY, 1878. JVb. 2. 



An enumeration of some plants — chiefly from the SEM'i -TROPICAL REGIONS 



OF Florida — wurcii aue either new, or which have not hitherto been re- 

 corded AS belonging to the Flora of the Southern States. By A. W. Chapman . 

 (Continued from p. 6.) 



Lohelin Floridaaa, n. sp. — Perennial, smooth; stem stout, erect (3-5 feet high), 

 rarely branching; leaves chiefly I'adical, clustered, spreading, lanceolate, sessile, crenu- 

 late, fleshy (6-9 inches long), the upper ones small and very remote; raceme rigid, 

 rather closely many-flowered, the stout appressed pedicels as long as the linear denti- 

 culate bracts; calyx-tube enclosing about one-half of the ovoid capsule, strongly 10- 

 ribbed, the lanceolate glandular lobes slightly auriculate at base; coi-olla (7-9 lines 

 long) of varying shades of blue, villous withiu and on the lower lip; anthers sparingly 

 hispid. — Margins of ponds and swamps in the pine forests of West Florida. .June 

 and Julj-. ISTear L. palicdosa, Nutt., with which it has been confounded. 



Lobelia Xalapen)sis,'H..'B.K. Annual, glabrous; stem slender {l-\% feet) weak, 

 mostly branched ; leaves petiolate, membranaceous, ovate, unequally and mucronately 

 dentate, the upper ones narrower and subsessile; racemes very slender, loosely many- 

 flowered, long peduncled, the pedicels 2-3 times as long as the filiform entire bracts; 

 tube of the calyx broadly obcouical, scarcely enlarged at maturity, and enclosing the 

 base of the ovoid capsule, which is longer than the subulate lobes ; corolla small, (5 

 lines), blue; anthers sparsely liispid. — Hammocks near Manatee, South Florida, (Dr. 

 Garber.) Differs from L. Cliffortiana, Willd., only in its superior capsule. 



Lohelin Feaynna, Gray. Annual, glabrous, stems tiliform, mostly simple, erect or 

 ascending (4-8 inches high); leaves few, scattered, the lower ones orbicular, crenate 

 (3-4 lines wide), abruptly contracted mto a slender petiole; the others narrower, den- 

 ticulate, subsessile; racemes remotely few (4-8) flowered, the naked, at length, spread- 

 ing pedicels 2-3 times as long as the linear more or less denticulate bracts, and mostly 

 longer than the small (2 lines iong) deep blue corolla; calyx-tube top-shaped, enlarg- 

 ing at maturity, and enclosing about one-half of the ovoid capsule, the lobes subulate: 

 anthers smooth. — Regions of the Upper St. Johns River, Durand (1866), Dr. Garber, 

 and of Peace Creek, Florida, Dr. Feay. There are good reasons for the belief that this 

 is the J.. fJliffortiaim, Mx. (/>. Michauxii, Nutt.) and that it was erroneously said to have 

 been found "in Virginia." 



Campanula Floridana, Watson. Glabrous ; stem filiform, angular, simple or spar- 

 ingly branched at the summit; leaves lanceolate, entire, acute, subsessile, the uppermost 

 ones linear; peduncles terminal erect; lobes of the calyx linear-subulate, bi-dentate, 

 spreading, longer than the spreading o-parted blue corolla ; stigmas recun^ed. — South 

 Florida, (Dr. Feay). Stem 6-12 inches high Leaves 8-10 lines long. Corolla 6 

 li.ies wide. 



Chrymphylhun microphylluin, DC. Branchlets, lower surface of the leaves, pedi- 

 cels, and calyx densely tomentosc, cinnamon-colored; leaves thick, oblong-ovate, entire, 

 acute at each end; pedicels axillary, shorter than the petioles, clustered, the lower ones 

 single; lobes of the calj'x oval, one-half as long as the smooth white corolla. — Banks of 

 the Caloosa River, and Miami (Dr. Garber). South Florida. November. A small 

 tree. Leaves 2-4 inches long. 



