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4. S. Blodgettii, n. sp. Stem shrubby ? smooth, the branches, like the up- 
per surface of the léaves, roughened with a close stellate (greenish) pubescence ; 
leaves oblong, obtuse, entire, narrowed into a short petiole, hoary-tomentose 
beneath, like the rather short-peduncled many-flowered forking cymes; calyx 
small, obconical, with short rounded teeth; corolla purple? deeply parted, 3-4 
times as long as the calyx, with lanceolate acute lobes; anthers nearly sessile, 
linear, narrowed at the apex, shorter than the style. — South Florida. — Leaves 
3'-4'long. Flowers } in diameter. 
* * Prickly: flowers racemed : corolla mostly angularly lobed. 
5. S. Carolinense, L. Hirsute with stellate hairs; stems erect; leaves 
ovate-oblong, angularly lobed or toothed, abruptly contracted into a short pet- 
iole; the veins and petiole, like the stem, armed with straight yellow prickles; 
racemes simple, slender, 3-several-flowered ; calyx-lobes acuminate. — Var. Fro- 
RIDANA (S. Floridana, Dunal) is less hairy ; stems ascending from a creeping 
base; leaves narrower, sinuate-lobed or toothed, with more numerous and 
stronger prickles. — Dry waste places, Floridá to North Carolina. June- Sept. 
Y — Stem 19-119 high. Leaves 3'-5'long. Corolla 9" —12/ wide, blue or 
white. 
6. S. aculeatissimum, Jacq. Plant beset throughout with bristly hairs 
and Stout prickles; stem diffusely branched; leaves petioled, ovate or oval, 
membranaceous, acute, rounded or cordate at the base, acutely lobed or toothed ; 
racemes lateral, slender, 2 —5-flowered, shorter than the petioles ; corolla-lobes 
lanceolate, acute, white; anthers acuminate ; berry globose, yellow. — Waste 
places, Florida to North Carolina. Probably introduced from Mexico. June- 
Sept. ()— Stem 19-29 high. Leaves 3'-6'long. Corolla 6” —9" wide, the 
lobes recurved. 
.7. S. mammosum, L. Pubescent with stellate hairs, and the stem, pet- 
loles, and nerves of the leaves armed with stout flattened prickles ; stem stout, 
rect; leaves large, ovate, sinuate-lobed, slightly cordate; racemes cymose, 
long-peduncled, many-flowered; corolla large, purple, with ovate spreading 
lobes; berry conicalovate. — Road-sides, and waste ground, Florida and 
Georgia. July-Sept. @ — Stem 29-39 high. Leaves 6'—9!' long. Co- 
rolla 13/ wide.  Anthers narrowed upward, on slender filaments. p cim 
unarmed. : 
S. hirsutum, Nutt, not of Dunal. Dwarf, hirsute; leaves Toisa 
obovate, very obtuse, nearly entire, narrowed at the base, prickly on the midrib ; 
. Facemes 3-flowered ; peduncles filiform. — Milledgeville, Georgia. — Roots pro- 
| fusely creeping. Ben. & span high, beset with Lotion hairs. Calyx very 
Tough. Flowers purple? (+) 
—... & Psewpo-Carsicum, L., the JERUSALEM Camas; is sometimes sponta- 
neous near dwellings. 7 
oh - TUBEROSUM, L., is the Inrsu Pozaso, m je fs here called; 8. 
Mg» the Roo-Puaxr; and S. Tegoransicndo L. mimi: | 
4 *) the Tomaro. garm E h 
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