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larger woody plants the branches elongate and sprawl among 
the branches of shrubbery. The present species differs from 
C. canescens in the larger flower, particularly the large copiously 
spotted corolla with the reniform lateral lobes of the lower lip. 
The type specimens were collected by the writer on the ancient 
sand-dunes near Sebastian, Florida, April, 1921. 
’ Borreria terminalis Small, sp.nov. Perennial with a woody, 
often branched, root; stems simple or several together from the 
branching top of the root, 1-4 dm. tall, simple, at least above the 
base, or rarely branched, glabrous, or sparingly pubescent above; 
leaves opposite, u usually with more or less prominent clusters of 
smaller leaves in their axils; blades spatulate to suiptic-spatilate, 
linear or narrowly linear-lanceolate, acute, glabrous, often re 
axils; sepals in pairs, finely- peter the 2 larger lanceolate 
or triangular-lanceolate, 1.5—2 mm ig 2 smaller broad and 
irregular; corolla white, 3.5-4 on 168 ; lobes deltoid, obtuse, 
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much shorter than the filaments; fruits 2.5-3 mm. long, eecluiee 
of the persistent sepals——Pinelands, Everglade Keys and lower 
Florida Keys. 
The Borreria here described has heretofore been referred to 
the little known Mexican B. podocephala. Borreria terminalis 
is a parallel of the Antillian B. verticillata. It has the same habit 
and exhibits nearly the same range of variation in its foliage. 
There are, however, decided differences in the flowers and fruits. 
The Floridian species differs from the Antiliean in the relatively 
short corolla which only slightly exceeds the sepals, the lobes 
of which are about as long as the tube, the short ovoid anthers, 
and the larger fruits. 
’ Aster plumosus Small, sp. nov. Stem 1 m. tall or less, 
branched above, finely pubescent, the branches more closely 
pubescent than the stem, villous-hirsute near the tips; leaf- 
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m t- seen, 
those above linear or nearly so, those of the branches linear- 
elliptic to lanceolate, mostly 1 cm. long or less, acute, a all sessile, 
nely pubescent on both sides; poten showy, in loose racemes: 
rine ohne turbinate-campan nulate; bracts linear-acuminate to 
narrowly linear-lanceolate, imbricated in several series, the 
inner 6.5-7.5 mm. long, the loosely spreading or recurved green 
tip with copious long white hairs; ray-flowers about 10; ligules 
