﻿616 Small: Botany of Southeastern United States 



about i mm. high, minutely pubescent : seeds less than I mm. 

 long, faces transversely wrinkled. 



In sand, peninsular Florida. 



The specimens on which the above described species is founded 

 were collected in peninsular Florida by both Dr. Garber and Mr. 

 Simpson, and were both distributed under the name of a species to 

 which they are rather remotely related and bear but slight resem- 

 blance. The nearest relative seems to be Euphorbia prostrata. The 

 newly described species can easily be distinguished by the much 

 stouter root and more numerous and wiry branches. The leaves 

 are conspicuously parchment like and not fleshy; in short, the 

 plants belonging here have a dry and rigid texture as compared 

 with the fleshy and flaccid herbage of their relatives. 



The following specimens are referred here ; Florida: Miami, 



November, 1878, Garber; Lemon City, March 2, 1892, Simpson, 

 no. 523. 



Hypericum apocvnifolium. 



A branching shrub 4-7 dm. tall with a red somewhat 

 shreddy bark. Branchlets narrowly 4-winged : leaves bright 

 green ; blades oblong or slightly broadest near the middle, 2-4 

 cm. long, rounded or emarginate at the apex, rarely revolute, pale 

 beneath, minutely punctate, more or less cuneate at the base, 

 nearly sessile : flowers 3-5 in terminal cymes : sepals spatulate, 

 elliptic or oval, 3-5 mm. long, fully one half as long as the pet- 

 als, obtuse or acutish, persistent : petals yellow, oblong, 8-9 mm. 



capsules oblong-conic, 12-13 mm - l° n g, acute: seeds 

 cylindrical or slightly constricted about the middle, barely 2 mm. 

 long, minutely but conspicuously reticulated. 



In swamps, Arkansas and Texas. Summer. 



Probably most if not all of the Texano- Arkansas Hypericum 

 nudiflorum may belong to the above descriped species. Hypericum 

 apocynifolium is related to Hypericum iiudiflorum but it is rigidly 

 distinct. The best diagnostic characters are to be found in the flow- 

 ers, these are somewhat larger than those of the eastern relative. 



long . 



The sepals are fully one half as long as the petals, while the cap- 

 sules are 12-13 mm - long, being of a narrower pattern and fully 

 twice as large as those of the species with which it has been con- 

 fused. My attention has recently been recalled to this species by 

 specimens collected near Texarkana during the closing season. 



