﻿606 Small : Botany of Southeastern United States 



Dr. Baldwin, near St. Mary's, in southeastern Georgia, in the early 

 part of this century. As far as I can learn the species was not 

 met with in the field since the time of the original collection, until 

 Mr. Lewton found handsome specimens of it about Lake Brantley, 

 Orange County, Florida, on July 10, 1894. It is interesting to 

 get the species from a point several hundred miles south of the 

 original station. 



Sida rubromarginata Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 23:102. 1896. 



This excellent species was collected many years ago by Rugel. 

 I find a specimen of it in the Columbia University Herbarium, the 

 label bearing the following record : Ad vis, prope Tallahassee, 

 Florida, legit Rugel, Mai, 1843. 



Crotoxopsis spinosa Nash, Bull. Torr. Club, 22 : 157. 1895. 



Mr. Lewton found this lately described species abundant in 

 Orange County, Florida, during the summer of 1894. This col- 

 lection makes the fourth known locality for the species. 



ClTRULLUS ClTRULLUS (L.). 



Cucurbit a Citrullus L. Sp. PI. 1010. 1753. 



Citrullus vulgaris Schrad. Linnaea, 12:412. 1838. 



This foreign and widely cultivated species has now become 

 sufficiently well established in waste grounds, along railroads and 

 in similar places to be recognized as a part of our introduced flora. 

 I have collected it at many points in Georgia and North Carolina. 



II. HITHERTO UNDESCRiBED SPECIES. 



'Melanthium dispersum. 



Perennial, glabrate below the inflorescence. Stems erect, 6-12 

 dm. tall, simple below the panicle, thence zigzag and scurfy pubes- 

 cent, rather slender : leaves without distinction between blade and 

 petiole, narrowly linear, elongated, 3-8 dm. long, sheathing the 

 stem for several centimeters : panicle ample, open ; branches zig- 

 zag, widely ascending or spreading : bracts 3-10 cm. long, obtuse : 

 pedicels spreading, 8-12 mm. long, rigid : perianth scurfy without, 

 12-15 mm - broad ; segments thickish ; blades oblong, obtuse, with 

 2 glands at the bases, entire, several times longer than the claws . 

 capsules (barely mature) ovoid, 7-9 mm. long. 



