Small: The flora of Peninsular Florida 163 



Recent exploration on Long Key (Everglades) brought this 

 verbenaceous plant to light as a member of the flora of the United 

 States {Small & Carter 286 j). On certain portions of the largest 

 island of the group the plants grew in great abundance. 



Lantana ovatifolia Britton 



This species described from plants collected on the Bahamas 

 is common in southern peninsular Florida. The collections cited 

 below belong to this species : 



Hitchcock 



& Carter 618 



& 



Jackson, Small & 



Miami 



Palm Beach, Small 21J4,. 



Gerardia domingensis Spreng. 



West 



ance in the low pinelands about Camp Longview and in the ad- 

 jacent everglades during the spring of 1904 (Small & Wilson 



& 



Spermacoce asfera Aubl. 



Plants belonging to this species were found growing in abund- 

 ance in hammocks between Cocoanut Grove and Cutler, Florida, 

 by Mr. J. J. Carter and the writer in November 1903 (/lo. 120/). 



DiODiA rigida Cham. & Schlecht. 



The pinelands between the settlement of Cutler and Black 

 Point Creek contain many large areas of this tropical American 

 plant. Luxuriant plants were collected there in November, 1906 

 '(Small & Carter 2jo6), 



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Phoradendron rubrum (L.) Krug & Urban 



The discovery of this species in peninsular Florida adds an- 

 other parasitic plant to our flora- Flowering specimens were col- 

 lected at Deep Lake .Florida, March 7, 1905, by Mr. A. A. 

 Eaton (jio. ijio). 



Melanthera radiata sp. no v. 



Stems several or many from a thick root, radially spreading, 

 •decumbent, 2-4 dm. long, simple or sparingly branched, sparingly 



