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iv. 513 ; Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. 342. P. nervosa, Swartz, Fl. Intl. Oce. i. 403. P. lanceolata, 

 Nutt. ill Am. Jour. Sci. v. 290, ferruginous-pubescent form, in fruit, and glabrous form also 

 mentioned ; DC. 1. c. 513. P. clumarrhoUles, & P. uligotricha, DC. 1. c. 514, glabrous or nearly 

 glabrous forms. P. ruftscens, HBK. '{ Griseb. 1. c, the ferruginous-pubescent form. — Woods 

 of E. and S. Florida along the coast, first coll. by Michaux and Ware. (W. Ind., Mex.1) 

 P. tenuifolia, Sw.^ktz. Shrub l to 4 feet high, with more simple and erect partly herba- 

 ceous flowering branches, glabrous or commonly with a very minute pruino.se puberulence, 

 no ferruginous hairiness : stipules distinct, ovate, often acute, sometimes setaceously -acumi- 

 nate, caducous : leaves oblong-lanceolate or broader (3 to 6 inches long), acuminate at both 

 ends : cyme either short-peduucled or sessile, compactly many -flowered : flowers nearly of the 

 preceding: drupes not seen in the Florida plant, according to Swartz "oblong," (ellipsoidal, 

 Grisebach,) in Cuban specimens globose. — Fl. Ind. Occ. i. 402 (ex char.) ; Griseb. 1. c. 341. 

 P. lanceolata, in distrib. coll. Rugel, in part, & coll. Curtiss ; also Cliapm. Fl. 1. c. in part ; 

 Griseb. Cat. Cub. 135, not Nutt. (Near P. jmhescens, Swartz, but has different stipules.) 

 — Rich woods, S. Florida; Tampa and JNlauatee River, Leavenworth, liiujtl, Indian Ri\er, 

 Curtiss. (W. Ind.) 



17. STRUMPFIA, Jacq. (C. C. Strumpf, who edited the fourth edition 

 of Liiiu. Genera Plantarum.) — Stirp. Amer. 218; Lam. IIL t. lol; A. Rich. 

 Mem. Rub. t. 9 ; Bcnth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 117. — Single s^jecies. 



S. maritima, J.vcq. Low shrub, much branched, erect, exceedingly leafy : branches where 

 the leaves have fallen annulate-roughened by the squarrose remains of the stipules, which 

 closeh^ approximate : leaves more commonly in three.?, firm-coriaceous and rigid, linear, with 

 strongly revolute margins, glabrous or puberulent, at length shining, inch or less long, 

 mostly exceeding the flowei'-clusters : corolla white: fruit white. — Desc. Fl. Ant. t. 208 ; 

 DC. Prodr. iv. 470; Chapm. Fl. 178; Griseb. 1. c. 336. Toimipfortiu; &c., Plum. Amer. ed. 

 Burm. t. 251, f. 1. — Rocks on the sea-shore, Keys of Florida. ( W. Lul.) 



18. ERNODEA, Swartz. ('Epv^S^/s, sprouting or branching.) — Prodr. 29, 

 & Fl. Ind. Occ. i. 223, t. 4. Knoxia, P. Browne, Jam. 110. lliymeha, Sloane, 

 Hist. Jam. t. 169. — Single species. 



E. littoralis, Swartz, 1. c. Procumbent, suffruticose, glabrous : leaves fleshy-coriaceous, 

 lanceolate, acute, inch or less long, crowded on the branchlets, obscurely uervo.se-veined : 

 stipules short-vagiuate, produced between the leaf-bases into cuspidate points : corolla yel- 

 lowish, half-inch or less long : drupe yellow, pisiform, crowned by the conspicuous calyx- 

 lobes. — A. Rich. Mem. Rub. t. 5, f. 2;'Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 30; Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. 347.'— 

 Shores of S. Florida. (W. Ind.) 



19. MITCHELL A, L. Partridge-berry,— (Z)?-. John Mitchell of Vir- 

 ginia, earliest N. American botanical author, founder of several new genera in 

 1741.) — Gen. ed. 5, 49; Lam. 111. t. 03. Chamoedaphne, Mitch. — Of a single 

 species, for that of Japan seems not different. 



M. repens, L Small creeping evergreen, glabrous or nearly so : leaves deep green, ovate or 

 subcordate, half-inch to near an inch in length, slender-petioled : stipules triangular-subulate, 

 minute : peduncle short, terminal : corollas white or tinged with rose outside ; tube half- 

 inch long, surpassing the oblong lobes; two-eyed "berry" rather dry and tasteless, bright 

 red, sometimes white. — Spec. i. Ill (Lonicera, &c., Gronov. ; Syringa baccifera, &c., Pluk. 

 Amalth. t. 444, Catesb. Car. t. 20) ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 979 ; Bart. Fl. Am. Sept. t. 95, f. 1 ; 

 Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 34 ; Gray, Struct. Bot. ed. 6, fig. 467-469. M. nnditlala, Sieb. & Zucc; 

 Micpicl, Prolus. Jap. 275. — Woods, especially under Coniferaj, Nova Scotia and Canada to 

 Florida and Texas. (Mex., Japan.) 



20. KELL6GGIA, Torr. (Dr. Alhert Kellogrj, of California.) — Wilkes, 

 S. Pacif. Ex. E.xped. xvii. 332 (1874), t. G (18G2) ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 137 ; 



