96 Annals of the Carnegie Museum. 



Jennings, No. 662; near Nueva Gerona, February 9, 1904, A. H. 

 Ciirtiss, West Indian Plants, No. JJ5; Wm. Trelease, No. 20, March, 

 1907. General Distribution: Isle of Pines, Curtiss, No. 355, being 

 the type. 



See Britten, Journal of the New York Botanical Garden, XVIII, 

 1916, p. 67, where, with reference to this species, it is noted that the 

 steep cliffs of the Casas and Caballos mountains are "often thickly 

 clothed by the maguey or century plant of the Isle of Pines (Agave 

 papyrocarpa) ." 



211. CurcuUgo scorzoneraefolia (Lamarck) Baker. 

 Hypoxis scorzonercEfolia Lamarck, Encyclopedic Methodique, Botanique, III, 



1789, p. 183. 

 CurcuUgo scorzonerafolia Baker, Synopsis Hypoxidaceae, Journal of the Linnean 



Society, XVII, 1880, p. 124. 



Pine-barrens east of Los Indios, May 18, 1910, 0. E. Jennings, 

 No. 364; on " Mai Pais" gravel soil south of Sante Fe, May 25, 1910, 

 associated with Hypoxis decumbens L., which it fairly closely resembles 

 in general appearance. Northern part of the island, Blain, No. 34, 

 Millspaugh. General Distribution: Cuba, Isle of Pines, Haiti, 

 Jamaica, St. Vincent, Brazil, and Peru. 



212. Hypoxis decumbens Linnaeus. 

 Hypoxis decumbens LiNNiEUS, Systema Naturae, Ed. X, 1759, p. 986. 



Gravelly soil on savanna near Sante Fe, May 25, 1910, 0. E. 

 Jennings, No. 550: Probably also belonging here is Blain, No. 33, 

 reported as H.juncea. General Distribution: Tropical America from 

 Mexico and Cuba to South America. 



This was identified as H. juncea Smith, but as the writer under- 

 stands that species it is far different from the plant found in the 

 Isle of Pines. H. juncea, in the form in which it occurs in our South- 

 ern States, has far more filiform-linear leaves. The plants from the 

 Isle of Pines have the free portion of the perianth-parts about i cm. 

 long, the corms semiglobose and often 1.5 cm. thick, and the inner 

 perianth segments only about three-fourths as wide and three-fourths 

 as long as the outer ones. 



Growing together with this species in the dry open fields just 

 south of Sante Fe, and apparently related to it, were similar but 

 considerably smaller plants, the leaves being usually less than 3 mm. 



