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iv. 513; Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. 342. P. nervosa, Swartz, Fl. Ind. Occ. i. 403. P. lanceolata, 

 Nutt. in Am. Jour. Sci. v. 290, ferruginous-pubescent form, in fruit, and glabrous form also 

 mentioned ; DC. 1. c. 513. P. chimarrhoides, & P. oligotrichn, DC. 1. c. 514, glabrous or nearly 

 glabrous forms. P. rufe.scem, HBK. "? Griseb. 1. c, the ferruginous-pubescent form. — Woods 

 of E. and S. Florida along the coast, first coU. by Michnux and Ware. (W. Ind., Mex.?) 

 P. tenuifolia, Swaetz. Shrul) J to 4 feet high, with more simple and erect partly herba- 

 ceous iiowering branches, glabrous or commonly with a very minute pruinose pubcrulence, 

 no ferruginous hairiness : stipides distinct, ovate, often acute, sometimes setaceously-acumi- 

 nate, caducous : leaves ol)long-laiiceolate or broader (3 to 6 inches long), acuminate at both 

 ends : cvme either short-peduucled or sessile, compactly many -flowered : flowers nearly of the 

 preceding : drupes not seen in the Florida plant, according to Swartz "oblong," (ellipsoidal, 

 Grisebach,) in Cuban specimens globose. — Fl. Ind. Occ. i. 402 (ex char.) ; Gri.seb. 1. c. 341. 

 P. lanceolata, in distrib. coll. Rugel, in part, & coll. Curtiss ; also Chapm. Fl. 1. c. in part ; 

 Griseb. Cat. Cub. 135, not Nutt. (Near P. jnihesrcns, Swartz, but has different stipules.) 

 — Kich woods, S.Florida; Tampa and Manatee River, Leavemcorth, RikjcI, Indian Eiver, 

 Curtiss. (W. Ind.) 



17. STRtJMPFIA, Jacq. (C. C. Sfrumpf, who edited the fourth edition 

 of Linn. Genera Plantarum.) — Stirp. Amer. 218; Lam. IlL t. 731; A. Rich. 

 Mem. Rub. t. 9 ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 117. — Single species. 



S. maritima, Jacq. Low shrub, much branched, erect, exceedingly leafy : branches where 

 the leaves have fallen annulate-roughened by the squarrose remains of the stipules, which 

 closely approximate : leaves more commonly in threes, firm-coriaceous and rigid, linear, with 

 strongly revolute margins, glabrous or puberulent, at length shining, inch or less long, 

 mostly exceeding the flower-clusters : corolla white : fruit white. — Desc. Fl. Ant. t. 208 ; 

 DC. Prodr. iv. 470; Chapm. Fl. 178; Griseb. 1. c. 336. Touriiefortia, &c., Plum. Amer. ed. 

 Burm. t. 251, f. 1. — Rocks on the sea-shore, Kej's of Florida. (W. lud.) 



18. ERNODEA, Swartz. ( 'E/ovcuSt^s, sprouting or branching.) — Prodr. 29, 

 & Fl. Ind. Occ. i. 223, t. 4. Knoxia, P. Browne, Jam. 140. Thtjmelea, Sloane, 

 Hist. Jam. t. 169. — Single species. 



E. littoralis, Swartz, 1. c. Procumbent, suffruticose, glabrous : leaves fleshy -coriaceous, 

 lanceolate, acute, inch or less long, crowded on the branchlets, obscurely nervose-veined : 

 stipules short-vaginate, produced between the leaf-bases into cuspidate points ; corolla yel- 

 lowish, half-inch or less long : drupe yellow, pisiform, crowned by the conspicuous calyx- 

 lobes. — A. Rich. :\Iem. Rub. t. 5, f. 2 ; Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 30 ; Griseb. Fl. W. Ind. 347. — 

 Shores of S. Florida. (W. Ind.) 



19. MITCHl^LLA, L. PartridCxE-berry. — (Z)r. John 3fitcheli of Vir- 

 ginia, earliest N. American botanical author, founder of several new genera in 

 1741.) — Gen. ed. 5, 49 ; Lam. 111. t. 63. Chamcedaphne, Mitch. — Of a single 

 species, for that of Japan seems not different. 



M. repens, L Small creeping evergreen, glabrous or nearly so : leaves deep green, ovate or 

 subcordate, half-inch to near an inch in length, slender-petioled : stipules triangular-subulate, 

 minute : peduncle short, terminal : corollas white or tinged with rose outside ; tube half- 

 inch long, surpassing the oblong lobes ; two-eyed " berry " rather dry and tasteless, bright 

 red, sometimes white. — Spec. i. Ill (Lonicera, &c., Gronov. ; Syringa bacci/era, &c., Pluk. 

 Amalth. t. 444, Catesb. Car. t. 20) ; Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 979 ; Bart. Fl. Am. Sept. t. 95, f. 1 ; 

 Torr. & Gray, Fl. ii. 34 ; Gray, Struct. Bot. ed. 6, fig. 467-469. M. nridulata, Sieb. & Zucc; 

 Miquel, Prolus. Jap. 275. — Woods, especially under Coniferte, Nova Scotia and Canada to 

 Florida and Texas. (Mex., Japan.) 



20. KELL6G-GIA, Torr. {Dr. Albert Kellogg, of California.) — Wilkes, 

 S. Pacif. Ex. Exped. xvii. 332 (1874), t. 6 (1862) ; Benth. & Hook. Gen. ii. 137 ; 



