His description is here appended: "Glabrous and Bomewhal suc- 

 culent annual a fool or more high (this should be changed to 

 two to five feel I ; Leaves entire from obovate to Lanceolate, taper 

 ing into a petiole; flowers closely sessile in a dense terminal 

 pedunculate spike small, each subtended by a shorl brad and 

 a pair of bracklets; corolla while a Line or so wide, slightly ex- 

 ceeding the calyx. Range: Calcasieu and Cameron in the rice 

 regions." 



Nasturtium montanum Wall. 

 This plant, which has been observed by the writer for a 

 number of years, is believed to be recorded here for the firsl 

 time as occurring in North America. Tt is not included in any 

 of the manuals nor check lists of North American plants. Tt 

 was identified for the writer by Dr. B. L. Robinson of Harvard, 

 who wrote that il corresponded in all details with specimens in 

 their herbarium, of an East Indian and Chinese plant which 

 had long passed as Nasturtium >ii<nii<iinini Wall. It is very com- 

 mon in and around New Orleans, and can be found both bloom- 

 ing and fruiting every month of the year. Dr. W. Trelease, of 

 the St. Louis Botanical Gardens, informed the writer that they 

 had some unidentified specimens in their herbarium, sent from 

 Covington by Dr. Joor. The writer has collected specimens 

 from New Orleans. New Iberia, and Lake Charles. B is probably 

 well naturalized in the southern part of Louisiana. 



Polygala. 

 The genus r<>lu<i<tl<t is represened on the Calcasieu prairies 

 by the following species: 



Polygala Gurtissii. 

 Polygale cruciata. 

 Polygala paludosa. 

 Polygala luU <i. 

 Polygala nana. 

 Polygala cymosa. 

 Polygala grandiflora. 

 Polygale incarnata. 

 Polygala ramosa. 



All of these excepi Pob'gala Curtissa have I a found in 



many other portions of the State. Polygala Curtissii is reported 



