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more rigid habit and the foliage, including the branchlets, is velvety- 



tomentose. In place of the subglobose drupe of P. lunbcllata, we 

 find an oblong fruit of an extremely bitter taste. The stone is 

 correspondingly lengthened. 



IV -A NEW GENUS OF PARONYCHIACEAE. 



In that peculiarly formed and little explored region of south- 

 western Georgia and adjacent Florida, there grows a unique plant 

 which has posed in an unstable manner in both the genera Parony- 

 chia and Siphonyckia. It is clear that Dr. Chapman, in dealing 

 with the plant, was more or less dissatisfied with the disposition he 

 made of it, for in one edition of his flora we find it in Paronychia, 

 while in another he has assigned it to Siphonychia. In fact the 

 species possesses characters sufficient to establish it as a distinct 

 genus. A prominent character is the peculiar involucel subtend- 

 ing the calyx. 



FORCIPELLA.* 



Annual or biennial pubescent herbs. Stems erect, simple be- 

 low, forking above, the ultimate divisions ending in cymes. Leaves 

 opposite, narrow, sessile. Cymes many-flowered, rather dense. 

 Flowers perfect, inconspicuous, 2-3 in an involucre composed of 

 two bracts and their broad 2-parted stipules, each, or only 2 seated 

 in a hard, clamp-like involucel, whose two lobes are notched. Calyx 

 of 5 linear-subulate distinct (sometimes cohering at the base) 

 sepals. Petals none. Stamens inserted about the middle of the 

 sepals. Ovary 1 -celled, sessile. Style simple, very long and 

 slender. Utricle included, ovoid. 



Siph 



) 



i860. 



Paronychia Rngelii Shuttl.; Chapm. Fl. S. States, 47. As 

 synonym. 1 860. 



Annual or biennial, rather slender, finely pubescent. Stem erect. 

 1-5 dm. tall, forking, finally diffuse: leaves thickish, oblanceolate, or 

 the upper lmear-oblanceolate, 1-3 cm. long, acute, pubescent on both 



ucres 



stipules ov ate, acutish or short-acuminate, denticulate : calyx 3 mm . 



referring 



