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the E. procumhens ? nearer my longifoUa^ but 

 leaves only *2 or 3 inches long, stem sulcate, 

 sepals broader but not acuminate as in E. 

 dubia. 



306. EcLiPTA DiciioTOMA Raf. E. erecta 

 Nuttal in Collins herb, stem erect dichotome 

 smooth, leaves small sessile lanceolate and 

 oblong acute entire or subserrulatesubstrigose, 

 flowers 2 or 3 axillary and terminal, peduncles 

 short subhispid, sepals ovate acute. Arkanzas, 

 found by Nuttal, mistaken also for E. erecta^ 

 quite distinct, stem slender 3 or 4 feet high, 

 leaves remote uncial, sometimes small leaves on 

 the lower peduncles, imitating short branches, 

 flowers small smooth, seeds brown oblong sub 

 4gone. 



307. EcLiPTA PUMiLA Raf. dwarf hispid 

 rough, stem simple erect l-3flore, leaves sessile 

 lanceolate acute or obtuse subentire, flowers 

 axillary solitary, peduncle short, sepals oblong 

 — Mts. Cumberland of East Kentucky, 1 or 2 

 inches high only, perhaps a deviation of E. 

 simplex. 



308. EcLiPTA NUTANS Raf. stem decumbent 

 or assurgent flexuose trichotome rough above, 

 leaves sessile strigose, oblong lanceolate or cun- 

 eate hardly serrate acute uninerve, on the 

 branches linear lanceol. entire, flowers axiflary 

 and terminal geminate nodding, peduncles very 

 short, sepals ovate lanceolate acute — in Ken- 

 tucky also the banks of the Ohio and Potow- 

 mak, pedal or less, leaves small uncial, flowers 

 very small- This has probably been the E. 

 procumhens of Mx and many botanists, but 

 not of Elliot and others. It has some varieties 

 1 pauciflora, assurgent nearly simple few flow- 

 ers, 2 diffusa leaves often cuneate below, most- 



