258 FICOIDEiE. Glinus. 



late about the nodes, the upper disposed in a filiform-branched panicle •. sepals 1-nerved 

 and reticulated with green veins: capsule globose. — Seriuge in UC. Prodr. i. 392; Fenzl 

 Ann. Wien. Mus. i. 379 ; Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xvii. 360 ; Coulter, Contrib. U. S. Nat. 

 Herb. ii. 138. Pharnaceum Cerviana, L. Spec. i. 272 (excl. syn. Buxb.). — River banks, also 

 in sterile granitic sand and on mesas, S. W. Texas, at Bluffton, Palmer, and on Pecan Creek, 

 ace. to Plank; New Mexico, Greene; Arizona, Leinmon, Pringle, Jones. (Mex., Palmer; 

 Lower Calif., Brandegee ; Mediterranean Region ; S. Afr. ; E. Ind.) 



2. GLINUS, L. (FAivos or yXcivos, a name used by Theophrastus for a 

 maple ; the reason for its application to the present genus is wholly obscure.) — 

 Spec. i. 463 (but later in Gen. ed. 5, no. 537, & Spec. ed. 2, .i. 663, Linnaeus 

 ascribes the genus to Lcefling, who, in 1758, in his It. Hispan. 145, republished 

 G. lotoides) ; Fenzl, Ann. Wien. Mus. i. 355 ; Pax in Engl. & Prantl, Nat. 

 Pflanzenf. iii. Ab. lb, 40. Physa, Du Petit-Thouars, Gen. Nov. Madag. 20. 

 Under Mollugo, Benth. & Hook. Gen. i. 857. — Small genus of homely plants, 

 nearly related to Mollugo, but with sharp and apparently constant technical dis- 

 tinctions in the peculiar elongated funiculi and strophiolate seeds. Our species 

 annuals, pubescent with soft branching hairs. 



G. lotoides, L. l. c. Diffusely branched from the base, densely clothed in cinereous tomen- 

 tum ; stems procumbent or ascending : pseudoverticillate leaves obovate, rounded at the 

 apex, cuneately narrowed at the base to slender petioles : flowers pedicellate or subsessile in 

 glomerules : sepals 2 to 3| lines long, rather broadly oblong, scarcely mucrouate : stamens 

 mostly 10 or more: seeds nearly black, granulated. — Loefl. 1. c. ; Lam. Diet. ii. 729 ; Sibth. 

 Fl. Griec. v. t. 472. G. lotoides, var. o Candida, Fenzl, 1. c. i. 357. G. dictamnoides, Lam. 

 1. c. (Mediterranean Reg., E. Ind.) Represented in N. Amer. chiefly if not wholly by 



Var. virens, Fenzl, 1. c. 358. Less densely pubescent : leaves glabrate at least above ; 

 the broad blade sometimes half inch in diameter : flowers mostly smaller, about 2 lines long : 

 sepals more narrowly oblong than in the type and more or less distinctly mucrouate : stamens 

 5 to 10 : seeds inclining to be redj granulated as in the type. — G. dictamnoides, L. Mant. ii. 

 243; DC. Prodr. iii. 455. — Abundant at Verdigris, Ind. Terr., and in Arkansas, Bush; 

 also earlier collected in California (where perhaps introduced), at Chico, Parry, Lathrop, 

 Mrs. Brandegee, a more pubescent form possibly referable to the type. There can be no 

 doubt that the California plant is of this species rather than of the following, Avhere first 

 placed by Dr. Watson. 



G. Cambessidesii, Fenzl, 1. c. Habit of the preceding species but less robust, cinereous- 

 tomentose or greener: flowers 1^ to 2 lines in length: stamens 3 to 5 : seeds red, very 

 smooth and shining. — G. radiatus, Rohrb. in Mart. Fl. Bras. xiv. pt. 2, 238. G. lotoides, 

 Rose, Contrib. U. S. Nat. Herb, i, 331, not L. Mollugo radiata, Ruiz & Pav. Fl. Peruv. i. 

 48. M. glinoides, Cambess. in St. Hil. Fl. Bras. Merid. ii. 171, t. 109. — A single specimen 

 from our limits labelled Texas (without locality) from herb. Durand is now in herb. Gray. 

 The species, however, is not uncommon in Mexico, extending from the Yaqni River, Palmer, 

 southward. (Lower Calif., Z^rtmofe^ree; Cuba; S.Am.) 



3. CYPSELEA, Turp. (Kvt/^eA>7, a bee-hive, which in form the capsules 

 resemble.) — Ann. Mus. Paris, vii (1806), 219, t. 12; Fenzl, Ann. Wien. Mus. 

 1. 351, ii. 293 ; Benth. & Hook. 1. c. 856. Radiana, Raf. Speech, i. 88. — Incon- 

 spicuous prostrate W. Indian monotype, small in all parts. 



C. humifusa, Turp. 1. c. Prostrate matted much branched stems from a long perpendicu- 

 lar annual or perhaps more enduring root : leaves opposite, those of each pair very unequal, 

 the axil of the smaller one bearing a fascicle of crowded leaves and a pedicellate flower ; 

 leaf-blade elliptical, obtuse or rounded, \\ to 3 lines in length; petiole slender, nearly as 

 long, with a membranous bicaudate or somewhat fimbriate stipular expansion at the bjise : 

 calyx-lobes 5 : stamens (1 to) 3, inserted opposite the sinuses. — DC. Prodr. iii. 353 ; Griseb. 

 Fl. W. Ind. 56. — Sandy pine barrens near the coast of S. & W. Florida, Blodgett, Rugel, 



