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Trachysperma lacunosa (Vent.) comb. nov. 



Villarsia lacunosa Vent. Choix des Plantes, 9. 1803. 

 Limnanthemum lacunosum Griseb. Gent. 347. 1839. 

 Nymphoides lacunosum Kuntze, 1. c. — • Fernald, 1. c. 54 



Trachysperma humboldtiana (H.B.K.) comb. nov. 



Villarsia humboldtiana H. B. K. Nov. Gen. & Sp., 3 : 187. iSig. 

 Limnanthemum humboldtianum Griseb. Gent. 347. 1S39. 

 Nymphoides humboldtianum Kuntze, 1. c. 429. 



Trachyspermum grayana (Griseb.) comb. nov. 



Limnanthemum grayanum Griseb. Cat. PI. Cub. 181. 1866. 

 Nymphoides g r a y a n u m Ktmtze, 1. c. 429. 



Andrachne puniila (Raf.) comb. nov. 



Synexemia pumila Raf. Neogent. 2. 1825. 



Lepidanthus phvllanthoides Nutt. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc, 5:175- 



1837. 

 Andrachne phvllanthoides Muell. Arg. in DC. Prodr., 15 :435. 

 1862. 



This small Euphorbiaceous plant is placed by Rafinesque in his 

 genus Synexemia, based upon Phyllanthus Carolin- 

 ian u s Walt. The description is brief and admittedly poor but 

 possesses certain points which can apply to no other Euphorbiaceous 

 plants found in Kentucky. The description reads as foUov^s : 



"3. S . pumila Raf. erect, branches angular, leaves petiolate, 

 obovate, obtuse, entire, glaucous beneath, flowers germinate, droop- 

 ing, one male, one female, Kentucky ; flowers yellowish, capsule 

 trilocular?" 



GEBOSCON Raf. Cat. 14. 1824. 



Pseudoscordum Herb. Amaryll. 11. 1837. 

 Nothoscordum Kunth, Enum. 4 : 457. 1843. 

 Caloscordum Herb. In Lindl. Bot. Reg. Mies. 66. 1844. 

 Hesperocles Salisb. Gen. PI. Fragm. 85. 1866. 

 Oligosma Salisb. I. c. 

 Periloba Raf. Fl. Tcllur., 4:87. 1840. 



Geboscon bivalve (L.) comb. nov. 



O ru i t h o g a 1 u m bivalve L. Sp. PI. 306. 1753. 

 Allium o r n i t h o g a 1 o 1 d e s Walt. Fl. Car. 121. 17:^8. 

 Allium striatum Tacq. Coll. Suppl. 51. 1796. 

 Geboscon striatum Raf., I.e. 

 Nothoscordum striatum Kunth. I.e. 459. 

 N. bivalve Britton. in Britton S; Brown, Illus. Fl. 1:415. 1908. 

 Oliogosma bivalve Salisb. Gen. PI. Fragm. 85. 1866. 



This member of the Alliaceae (onion family), known as the yellow 

 false garlic, ranges from Virginia to Ohio, Tennessee, Nebraska, 

 Florida, Texas and Mexico. It appears to have been known by 



