27G Small : North American Plants 



Senecio MiLLiFOLiUM T. & G. Fl. N. A. 2 : 444. 1843 



In 1887 Mr. E. R. Memminger rediscovered this rare Senecio 

 in Henderson County, North Carolina, where it was collected 

 ■ many years ago by Buckley. In 1895 Mr. A. M. Huger sent 

 me specimens from Macon and Jackson counties, North Carolina, 

 where he found it growing plentifully on sloping cliffs at altitudes 

 ranging from i 100-1400 meters. 



11. HITHERTO UNDESCRIBED SPECIES 



Allium arenicola 



Bulbs nearly i cm. long, with fibrous outer coats. Leaves 

 basal ; blades very narrowly linear, becoming almost filiform, 

 about as long as the scape or shorter : scapes erect, sometimes 

 several together, T-3 dm. tall, more or less curved : umbels erect, 

 iO-3o-flo\vered : pedicels 5-1 mm. long, slender : perianth deep 

 pink ; segments linear to narrowly linear-lanceolate, about 4 mm. 

 long, very delicate : filaments dilated below : capsules not crested. 



In sandy soil, Mississippi. Spring. 



This species has been confused with Al/iiim inutabile Michx. 

 for nearly three quarters of a century. It is much more slender 

 in habit and smaller in all its parts. The type specimens were 

 collected by Martha B. Flint at Brookhaven, Mississippi, April i , 

 1888. 



Ranunculus cuneiformis 



Foliage hirsute below the inflorescence. Roots thickened, 

 clustered : stems usually several together, 2-3 dm. tall, erect or 

 ascending, rather slender : leaves mainly basal ; blades, at least 

 some of them, twice-divided into cuneate rather obtuse segments, 

 5-10 cm. long, about as long as the petioles ; upper stem leaves 

 with blades 3 -parted ; segments narrow, often incised : flowers 

 yellow, about i . 5 cm. broad, on strigillo.se peduncles : heads of 

 fruit subglobose or ovoid-globose, about i cm. long : receptacle 

 barely elongated : achenes 4 mm. long, conspicuously winged and 

 with a triangular beak. 



On prairies, near Kerrville, Texas. Spring. Heller, PI. S. 

 Tex. no. 1688. It differs from its relative as shown below : 



