252 Asclepias.—Diplocea Barbata. . 
Ant. VH. Description of a new species of Asclepias. By» Dr. 
Ext Ives, professor, Sc. in the Medical Institution of Age €ol- 
lege. (With a Plate.) 
Mic. pion which : of the following observa: 
ions; i bundantly on the sandy plains east of 
: It. is a associated with the 
When this species” of 
sons of the een lanceolata :—Stem 
ent, 4 aves opposite, lanc eolate, acute, suds 
irsute bbls lateral, solitary, sessile, nodding, sub 0 
See the plate. 
of a New Gon of Ameri 
’ \, by cS, RaFINESQUE, Eats 
— « HV Seinen Flowers pies» ce 
noical or polygam xterior glumes 1 membr 
valve, one to inagaeoece valves subequal, see 
~ mutic. Anterior aap — unequal ; the aay ME notched, 
