Catalogue of Plants grozcing in East-Florida, 287 



MONANDRIA. 



Salicornia herbacea. Wdldenoiv. and Pursh. 



diandria: 



f Gratiola ^ micrantha^ caule erecto, angulato ; follis lan- 

 ceolatis acutis serratis basi attenuatis ; peduncuiis fobis bre- 

 vJonbns; calycibus (ebracteatis) quandripartiiis, stamina 4. 



Observation — A species of very unusual aspect; stem 

 irregularly angular? apparently about a foot bigb, and con- 

 sldi^rably braucbed. Leaves narrow, an;! mr.cb attenuated 

 below. Peduncles filiform, sCcircely one tbird the lengMi of 

 the leaves. Segments of tbe calix 4'partedj naked, calix oval. 

 Corolla (apparently minute, wbile f) tbe internal surAice of 

 tbe tube densely covered witb bairs. Capsules globose- 

 ovate, crowned with tlie persisting style. The dis-epimen^s 

 of tbe 2-celled capsule formed by the infl- cted mari^in of 

 tbe valves coalescing with the seminal placenta. Scarcely 

 perhaps of this genus, but my specimens are too imperfect 

 to warrant any additional remarks* 



Pinguicula pumilla. MicL Flor. Am. L p. 11. 



Gratiola acuminata. Walter and Elliott, p. 15, not of 

 Pursh. G. anagallidea- Mich. l.p. 5. Excluding Pursh 

 ?tnd Elliott's synonim of Lindernia. 



Eiytrania virgata Mich. 1. p. 9. 



Salvia azurea. Lamarkj Encycl. 6. p, 625, S. lyrata. 

 Lin . 



Piper ^lepiostachj/ony berbaceum, pusillum ; foliis obo- 

 vatis obtusis subtrinerviis pubescentibus ; spicis axillaribus 

 fiHformibus erectis foliis multo longioribus. Hab. In East , 

 Florida, 



Observations. — Apparently annual. Tbe stems abo-it 

 ^ span high, in tbe dried specimen are clothed widi short 



rupous hairs, which are more or less abundant — also upon 

 the leaves. Leaves opposite, petiolate ; Sj^ikes filiform, 

 sometimes more than one in each asilb three or four 

 inches long. Stamens apparently two, persi-:tent with the 



