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red berries. — While R. or P. levis has stem 

 terete, leaves not repand marginate of red, and 

 ilowers redish also with obovate sepals. 



751. Pi.U3iBAGo FLORiDANA Raf. (ColHns 

 herb) stem slender virgate angular, smooth, 

 leaves minute ovate acute, spike slender base 

 squamose denudate, flowers terminal few,bracts 

 ovate reflexed, calix with stipitate glands. — 

 This G. was not known to be N. American, the 

 specimen of Collins was collected by Ware in 

 East Elorida, it is pedal, with small leaves and 

 flowers less than one inch long. 



752. Melothria nigra Raf. 1820, An. nat. 

 112, M. pendula E. and most of our Authors, 

 stem, filiform angular trailing, leaves roughish 

 subreniform Slobed remotely denticulate, petiols 

 filiform elongate, flowers polygamous and mo- 

 fioical, peduncles uniflore, in the male multifl. 

 berries globular smooth, pisiform black, — From 

 Carolina to Kentucky, trailing 3 to 10 feet, 

 leaves and flowers small, these yellow. It has 

 several var. see my Monographs ; but all are 

 distinct from the M. pendula of Antilles, Lin- 

 tieus said that sp. grew from C^anada to Jama- 

 ica, but I never found it in the Northern States, 

 others have and ascribe to it a red berry, is it 

 another sp. or the next ? In this the berries are 

 shining black scarcely larger than a pea, 



753. MELOTfiuiA repanda Raf Stem sul- 

 fate twining, leaves thick roughish cordate 5an- 

 gular subtrilobe, repand sinuate, teeth obtuse 

 mucronate, peduncles tmiflore, berries oblong 

 ©liveform smooth. — This is most likely the sp. 

 of Linneus and many botanists, although L. as- 

 cribes an oliveform tuberculate berry to his, 

 petiols shorter than leaves and peduncles, I can- 

 laot say if the berries are black or red, my spe- 



