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Recent exploration on Long Key (Everglades) brought this 

 verbenaceous plant to light as a member of the flora of the United 

 States (Small & Carter 2863). On certain portions of the largest 

 island of the group the plants grew in great abundance. 



Lama n a ovatifolia Britton 



This species described from plants collected on the Bahamas 

 is common in southern peninsular Florida. The collections cited 

 below belong to this species: 



Punta Rassa, Hitchcock 268. 



Bull Key, opposite Lemon City, Small & Carter 618. 



Ft. Lauderdale, Small & Wilson 1747. 



Between Homestead and Camp Jackson, Small & Wilson 1877. 



Beach opposite Miami, Small 2101. 



Palm Beach, Small 2134. 



Gerardia domingensis Spreng. 

 This West Indian Gerardia was found growing in great abund- 

 ance in the low pinelands about Camp Longview and in the ad- 

 jacent everglades during the spring of 1904 {Small & Wilson 1570 



&2008). 



Spermacoce aspera Aubl. 

 Plants belonging to this species were found growing in abund- 

 ance in hammocks between Cocoanut Grove and Culter, Florida, 

 by Mr. J. J. Carter and the writer in November {no. 1207). 



Diodia rigida Cham. & Schlecht. 

 The pinelands between the settlement of Cutler and Black 

 Point Creek contain many large areas of this tropical American 

 plant. Luxuriant plants were collected there in November, 1906 



(Small & Carter 2706). 



Phoradendron rubrum (L.) Krug & Urban 

 The discovery of this species in peninsular Florida adds an- 

 other parasitic plant to our flora. Flowering specimens were col- 

 lected at Deep Lake, Florida, March 7, 1905, by Mr. A. A. Eaton 

 (no. 1310). 



Melanthera radiata sp. nov. 

 Stems several or many from a thick root, radially spreading, 

 decumbent, 2-4 dm. long, simple or sparingly branched, sparingly 



