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base, as long as the fertile ones, (Achyranthes repens, Hil.) — Along roads and 
places much trodden, Florida to South Carolina. June- Oct. 3,— Stems 6/- 
12']ong. Leaves 1’ long. 
9. TELANTHERA, R. Brown. 
Flowers perfect, 3-bracted. Sepals 5, erect. Stamens 5, united into a tube 
below the middle. Sterile filaments elongated, flattened, fimbriate at the apex: 
anthers l-celled, oblong. Style short: stigma capitate. Utricle indehiscent, 
l-seeded, included in the calyx. Seed vertical. Radicle ascending. — Herbs or 
shrubs, with opposite leaves. Flowers capitate. 
* Calyx sessile, the 3 exterior sepals longer : heads sessile or nearly so. 
1. T. polygonoides, Moquin. Stem erect or prostrate, pubescent ; leaves 
oblong-obovate, hairy ; heads sessile, roundish, single or 2 ~ 3 together, axillary 
and terminal ; sepals thin, ovate-lanceolate, twice as long as the bracts, the outer 
ones 3-nerved, woolly at the base; sterile filaments as long as the fertile ones, 
3- 4-cleft at the apex. — On the coast of South Carolina, Moquin. 
2. T. maritima, Moquin. Smooth and fleshy ; stem prostrate, branching, 
angled ; leaves wedge-obovate, very obtuse, mucronate; heads roundish or ob- 
long, axillary and terminal, dull straw-color, rigid ; flowers crowded, 3-angled ;. 
sepals smooth, rigid, ovate, acuminate, 5-ribbed, with the margins membrana- 
ceous, one third longer than the ovate keeled bracts; sterile filaments longer 
than the fertile ones, 4 —6-cleft at the apex. — South Florida. — Leaves 1! - 2/ 
long. Heads 4" — 6" long. 
* * Calyx raised on a short 5-angled pedicel; the sepals nearly equal, cylindrical, 
hairy: heads long-peduncled. 
3. T. Floridans, n. sp. Shrubby; stem slender, elongated, forking, 
remotely jointed; the young branches and leaves roughened with appressed 
Seattered hairs; leaves distant, fleshy, oblong-lanceolate or obovate, acute or 
acuminate, tapering into a short petiole; peduncles terminal and in the forks, 
1-6 times as long as the leaves ; heads white, ovate ; sepals lanceolate-oblong, 
acute, 3 — 5-nerved, hairy, 2—3 times as long as the ovate acute bracts; sterile 
filaments longer than the fertile ones, 5 —6-cleft; utricle crowned with a narrow 
toothed margin. — South Florida, along the coast. — Stem 29 — 49 lug. MM, 
T long. 
4. T. Brasiliana, Moquin. Herbaceous, rough-hairy; the young leaves 
and branchlets hoary ; stem erect, forking ; leaves thin, ovate-lanceolate, acumi- 
nate, tapering into a short petiole, longer than the internodes, rather shorter 
than the slender peduncles ; heads and flowers as in No. 3; utricle crowned 
bins a narrow entire margin. — South Florida. — Stem apparently tall. Leaves 
~4 long. 
10, FROESLICHIA, Mench. 
i Flowers perfect, 3-bracted. Calyx tubular, Sele indurated and : idit 
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