10 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 



Ceiitunculus tenellus, Duby. Glabrous; stem filiform, simple, erect; leaves roundish, 

 or oval, mucronate, entire, narrowed at the base, subsessile; pedicels single 2-;? limes 

 longer than the flowers, shorter than the leaf; calyx 4^5-parlcd, the subulate lobes as 

 long as the white corolla. — Banks of the Caloosa River, South Florida. October. Stem 

 4-8 inches high. Leaves 3-4 lines long. Flowers minute. 



Ilpdraniheliuni Egetise, Poepp. V Floating, sparsely pilose; .stem filiform, rooting 

 at the joints, the branches opposite or dichotomous; lower leaves small (2-3 lines 

 long), oblong, very remote, the upper and floating ones larger, crowded, s]ireading, obo- 

 vate or roundish, crenate, 5-herved ; peduncles shorter than the leaves; calyx-lobes 

 ovate-lanceolate; lobes of the stigma ovale, spreading; capsule compressed, slight)}' ob- 

 cordate ; seeds linear pendulous. — New Orleans (Dr. Hale). The specimens are in 

 fruit, and in the absence of fiowers I am uot certain that the plant is correctly referred. 



Dasi/stoma j^nfula, n. sp. Stem tall (3-4 feet long), slender, curving, pubescent, 

 sparingly and divaricately branched; lower leaves oblong-ovate, pinuately lobed or 

 toothed, serrate, contracted into a liroadly winged petiole; the upper ones uearlj^ sessile, 

 lance-oblong, entire; pedicels slender (1-1^2 int'hes long,) spreading or lecurved, mostly 

 longer than the lanceolate leafy bracts; calj'X-lobes lanceolate, entire, spreading, rather 

 longer than the yellow tube; corolla tubular-campanulale, yellow; filaments at the ba.se 

 and anthers woolly. — Valley of the Coosa River, near Rome, Georgia. September. 

 Parasitic on roots. 



Hyyrophlla lacuMris, Nees. Stem erect, simple, obtusely 4-augled, (2-4 feet high); 

 leaves sessile, lanceolate, acute; cymes opposite, sessile, few-flowered; calyx smooth, 

 flowers white. — Muddy banks of the Apaiachicola River (Dr. Saurman, 186(5,), and of 

 the Mississippi (Dr. Hale, Dr. Riddell). 



Hyptis spirttta, Poit. Closely pubescent ; stem tall, branching, obtusely 4-augular, 

 muricate ; leaves ovate, coarsely serrate, acute, loug-petii)led ; cymes opposite, short 

 peduncled, 3-G flowered, forming axillary and terminal interrupted racemes ; calyx, 

 teeth spine-like, spreading; corolla small, purple- — Tampa (Herb. Durand) and streets 

 of Jacksonville, Florida. Stem 2-4 feet high. 



Ryptis spicigera.Lam. Stem erect (1-2 feet high), branching, softly jnibescent, 

 often muricate, with a villous ring at the joints; leaves ovale, acute, serrate, paler be- 

 neath, twice as long as the slender petiole; the upper ones bract-like; whorls crowded 

 into a dense lanceolate or oblong terminal spike; calyx villous at the throat; corolla 

 very small, white. — Fort Meyers, and Miami (Dr. Garber), South Florida. 



Satureia ? {Pycnothymus) rtglrla, Bart. Villous; stem low (4-6 inches high), 

 assurgent, branching; leaves small (3-4 lines long), lanceolate, rigid, the revolute 

 margins entire ; flowers crowded in an oblong terminal head ; calyx much shorter than 

 the imbricated bracts, deeplj^ 5-cleft, one-third as long as the tube of the blue spotted 

 corolla. — Low pine barrens, South Florida. 



Hedeumn graveolens, Chapm., (Gray Bot. Contributions). Stems numerous, shrubby 

 at base, erect (1-1 1'2 f^6t high), simple or sparingly branched, pubescent; leaves ovate 

 or roundish, cordate, the lowest short-petioled and sparinglj' serrate ; racemes spike like, 

 many-flowered; flowers opposite, single, rarely sessile, the bracts and 2 opposite bract- 

 lets oblong, nearly equal; calyx slightly gibbous, the teeth ciliate; corolla purple, 

 spotted at the throat; sterile stamens with abortive nuthers; seed ovoid, smooth. — Low 

 pine barrens. West Florida. July. 



Salvia occidentalism Swartz. Stem prostrate, diflusely branched, retrorscly pubes- 

 cent, the internodes swollen (2-6 feet long) ; leaves ovate, acute, serrate, abruptly con- 

 tracted into a short petiole, sparingly hispid ; racemes spicate (4-6 inches long), the 

 whorls approximate, mostly 6-flowered, as long as the ovate acuminate l)racts ; calyx 

 glandular-villous, one-half as long as the small blue corolla; the teeth obtuse; lobes of 

 the style flat, rounded. — Miami", South Florida, (Dr. Garber). 



