12 BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 



Acerates Feayi, Cliapm. (ined.) Leaves almost filiform, long, spreading; umbels 

 terminal and sub-terminal, short-peduncled, few-dowered; corolla white, rather large, 

 spreading; leaves ot the crown oblong, entire, involute-concave, spreading, as long as 

 the anthers, with a semi-oval, entire crest within (Gray).— Tampa, Florida, (Dr. Feay). 

 This, in conformity with the ari'angement of tliese plants in the "Soutlieru Flora," 

 would be an Acerates. Dr. Gray (Proc. Am. Acad, of Arts and Sciences V. xii. p. 72), 

 by amending the characters of Asdepias so as to include these cristate species, appro- 

 priately refers it to tliat genus. 



(TOiiolohns flaiHdalus (G. hiri<nfm, S. Flora). Stem downy and sparsely hairy; 

 leaves ovate, cordate — the sinus open — acute, sparingly pubescent above, downy beneath 

 (3-5 inches long); umbels mostly shorter than the petioles, simple or compound, the 

 pedicels about the lengtli of the flowers, which are ovate and obtuse in the bud; lobes 

 of tlie corolla oblong, obtuse, tinely reticulate, yellowish, smooth witliin, twice as long 

 as the linear pubescent calyx-lobes; crown 5-crenate, incurved, with 2 erect minute 

 subulate teeth in the sinuses; follicle muricate. — Light clay soil, Gadsden county, Flori- 

 da. June. The G. i/iacrophylliin, Ell., should, I think, be referred to this species. 



Go/wlobus Biildieini'diu.s, Sweet. Stem and leaves of the prec(-ding; peduncles 

 mostly longer than the petioles; umbels simple or compound, the pedicels mostly longer 

 than tlie flowers whicii are oblong-ovate in the bud; lobes of the corolla somewhat 

 spatulate, white, three times as long as the calj'X; crown 5-crenate and with a pair of 

 longer subulate lobes in the sinuses. — Calcareous soil, Chattahoochee, Florida, and 

 westward. May and June. 



Eiiphni'hia tfiti'itporii, Eogelm. Smooth; stem erect, umbellately branched ; leaves 

 cuneate, obtuse or emargiuate, the uppermost ones roundish, truncate at the base ; glands 

 of tlie involucre 2-horned ; capsule smooth; inner taie of the seed 4 pitted, the outer 

 face smoothish. — Georgia (Boj'kin ex Engelmann). 



Eiiphitrbin (im)iuiiuii<n(:les, H. B. K. Smooth throughout; stems liliform, very num- 

 erous, long (2-3 feet), prostrate, alternately much branched; leaves opposite, oblong, 

 (:>-") lines long), entire, rounded and mucrouale at the apex, short petioled ; stipules 

 2-M:irted; llowers single, terminal, and in the forks of the branches; glantls margined 

 with white; capsule obtusely triangular; seeds ovate, obscurely triangular, pale, smooth 

 and even. — Roberts' Ke}-, in Caximbas Baj , South Florida. 



Papdi/a valgarix, DC. Stem simple (6-15 feet high), leaves roundish, cordate, long- 

 petioled. mostly seven-i^arted, the divisions broadly sinuate ; flowers 3'ellow ; the sterile 

 ones salver-shaped, in panicled clusters; the fertile ones larger, bell-shaped, single, or 

 2-3 together, the long lobes linear -lanceolate; style short; stigmas 5, spreading, fruit 

 pulpy. — South Florida. 



Thriiuix parvipini, ^wiivtz. Stem smoothish, tall ( 1 0-30 feet) ; leaves fan-shaped, 

 soon smooth; the numerous linear-lanceolate divisions tapering to the slender deeply 

 cleft ai)i'.\:, iiud uaited about one-third their length, liguk' triangular, acute; spadix 

 smooth paniculate, scarcely shorter than the leaves; dowers veiy small ; drupe white, 

 glol)()se, of the size of a grain of Allspice. — Keys along the Florida Reefs, extending 

 up the west coast as far as Cape Romano. 



Thri/inxGarherl,n. ii\). Stem ver}^ short; leaves fan-shaped, on slender roughish 

 petioles, smooth, parted nearly to the base into several strap-shaped slightlv cleft divis- 

 ions; ligule short, rounded; spadix very small (G-S inclies high), sparhes (about 4) tubu- 

 lar, dilated upward, oblique, somewhat woolly; flowers very small, divisions of the peri- 

 anth minute, subulate; stamens 8-10, drupe (immature) pear-shai^ed. (Hnhal minima, 

 Nutt. V). — Rocky pine woods near Miami, South Fhn-ida, (Dr. Garber.) 



Several Epiphytic Orchids and Tillandsias have been detected in South Florida by 

 Dr. Garber and mj'self, which are omitted in this enumeration. 



[To he Conduded.] 



