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oak woods, Sheridan, Colorado County, Texas, my number 5533, 
and are unique in that the plants were uniformly 7-8 dm. tall, 
and the fruit relatively large and somewhat brownish instead of 
being nearly black. 
2. CROTONOPSIS LINEARIS Michx. 
Crotonopsis linearis Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. 2: 186. pl. 46 p.p. 
1803. ‘Hab. in maritimis Carolinae, juxta Long-Bay, et in 
regione Illinoensi.’”” Two plants figured. One is a plant with 
lanceolate-linear leaves and slender spikes, the other with 
lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate leaves and flowers one to two 
together. As Illinois specimen certainly the latter, and as the 
former is known in the maritime region of Carolina, and is the 
plant to which the name /inearis better applies, this is selected 
as the type. 
Crotonopsis argentea Pursh, Fl. Am. Sept. 1: 206. 1814. Con- 
sists of two varieties; name is here applied to first. 
Crotonopsis argentea linearis Pursh, I. c. 
Friesia argentea Spreng. Syst. 3: 850. 1826. Without citation 
of Pursh. 
Leptemon lineare Raf. Sylva Tellur. 67. 1838. 
Crotonopsis spinosa Nash, Bull. Torrey Club 22: 157. 1895. 
“Collected by Mr. W. T. Swingle [13974] at Dunellon [Florida], 
July 24 [1894].”’ Type seen in the herbarium of Columbia 
University at the New York Botanical Garden. 
Dry sandy soil, in the Coastal Plain, South Carolina to central 
Florida and eastern Texas, extending inland near the Mississippi 
River to southern Illinois and southeastern Missouri, and in 
Texas to Dallas. 
SoutH Carona. Beaufort: Bluffton, huss (M). 
Charleston: Mt. Pleasant, L. R. Gibbes (Y). 
Grorcia. Lowndes: Olympia, R. M. Harper 1593 (M, U, Y). 
Mitchell: R. M. Harper 1168 (M, U, Y). 
FLoripa. Baker: Macclenay, L. H. Lighthipe 586 (Y). 
Brevard: Melbourne, Curtiss 5715 (M, U, Y). Escambia: Pen- 
sacola, J. M. Macfarlane (P). Hillsboro: Tampa, A. P. Garber 
(U). Jefferson: Hitchcock (M). Lake: Eustis, Nash ro7z (M, 
U, Y).. been: T Tallahassee, N. K. Berg (Y). Marion: Dunnellon, 
