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ous herbaria, but they may be separated by the much smaller and 

 differently shaped corollas and the smaller capsules which con- 

 spicuously surpass the calyx. The original specimens are from 

 Kerrville, Kerr County, Texas, collected in April and June, 1894. 



y Lacinaria flabellata. 



Perennial from globose or spheroidal corms, showy. Stems 

 erect, 3-6 dm. tall, simple, lanuginose, angled, usually solitary : 

 leaves rather numerous ; blades linear or nearly so, lower ones 

 5-10 cm. long, acute or acutish, spreading, narrowed into margined 

 petioles, upper much reduced, sessile, more or less strongly re- 

 flexed, all densely punctate, glabrous : racemes conspicuous, 

 dm. long, 3 cm. thick : heads narrow, ascending, 1 — 1 .5 cm. Ion 

 bracts linear-lanceolate to linear, outer somewhat keeled, with 

 spreading entire or denticulate acuminations, inner with pale 

 magenta fan-shaped erose-dentate tips : pappus bristles somewhat 

 plumose, rather few : achenes densely pubescent. 



In dry open woods, St. Helena Island, South Carolina. Fall. 



One of the neglected and yet extremely interesting portions of 

 the Southern States is the territory formed by the numerous islands 

 along the Atlantic coast. Collections from some of these islands 

 have lately been put at my disposal by Mr. A. Cuthbert, and the 

 indications are that a complete series of specimens representing 

 the flora of the region in question would reveal many curious and 

 hitherto unknown species. One of the more interesting plants 

 from these islands is the above described Lacinaria, which makes 

 a second species for the group in which Lacinaria dcgans has 

 previously stood alone. Lacinaria* flabellata is of smaller stature 

 than L. elegans. Chief among other differences between the two 

 species is the character of the inner bracts of the involucres. The 

 dilated, toothed, rounded or truncate tips of the bracts have noth- 

 ing parallel in L. elegans. The original specimens were collected 

 by Mr. A. Cuthbert on St. Helena Island, South Carolina, Sep- 

 tember, 1894. 



./ Lacinaria laxa. 



Perennial, thinly tomentulose, or leaves glabrate. Stems erect, 

 4-6 dm. tall, stoutish, racemose above : leaves rather numerous ; 

 blades linear, sometimes rather broadly so, 1-2 dm. long, lower 

 ones narrowed into short winged petioles, upper sessile, much re- 



