23 NEW SYLVA 



feet high, with large leaves, and few small flow- 

 ers, often axillary. On the Oqiiago Mts. of 

 New York, north end of AUeghanies, it blos- 

 soms late in August. 



530. DiERviLLA PARViFOLiA Raf Stem or 

 branches decumbent, leaves with short petiols, 

 uncial, ovate acuminate serrulate, lower round- 

 ed, fl. terminal subsessile 1 to 3^ — in the Mts. 

 Alleghany, leaves seldom over one inch long. 

 The real D. canadensis is a shrub of 5 to 10 

 feet high with ovate leaves, and trichotome co- 

 rymbs of flowers. I noticed in this sp. or de- 

 viation a very long style with a large stigma 

 like the head of an Amanita, convex above, 

 concave beneath. 



531. Sapindus acuminata Raf. S. saponaria 

 Elliot and North Am. hot. not Lin. and Antil- 

 les ! Leaves with 8 or 9 pairs of folioles alter- 

 nate lanceolate acuminate obliqual entire, pe- 

 tiols simple striate, calix with 2 larger sepals, 

 4 to 6 petals lanceolate base hairy — in Florida, 

 Carolina, Alabama c5*c, seen alive in Bartram's 

 garden : wrongly mistaken for the Antillian sp. 

 which is very different by winged petiol. A 

 tree 20 to 30 feet high, pistil trigone, 3 united 

 styles, 3 obtuse stigmas, 3 united capsules ven- 

 tricose monosperm. The S. marglnata of 

 Wild, and Dec, found also in Florida and 

 Georgia and the S. sapowaria of Mx. differs by 6 

 pairs of folioles not acuminate, and half wing- 

 ed petiols as in real S. saponaria, I have both 

 our compilers call them both by that old name. 



Genus VISCUM, 



532. Viscu3i SEROTINUM Raf. purpur. and 

 verticil, of some hot. stem thick terete ru- 

 gose 2-3chotome geniculate, leaves oppo- 

 site evergreen subpetiolate, obovate ob- 

 tuse hardly unincrve thick ; flowers trifid 



