292 Catalogue of Plants growing in East-Florida. 



Branches opposite, leaves narrow, linear, acute, smooth, and 

 membranaceous. Flowers greenish yellow, minute. Seg- 

 ments of the calix very obtuse and short, those of the corol- 

 la oblong, with a brownish line towards the base of each. 

 Lepanthium very short, five toothed. Polliniferous cells as 

 in Asclepias. Foliicles terete, even, and subulate. Seeds 

 linear and immarginate, 



Asclepias verticillata. Lin* 



A . inca rnata . WillcL 



A 



msonia Angustifolia- Mich. 

 Gcntiana catesbrei. Walter. 

 Er}Dgium. virginianum- Persooii, 

 E. aromaticam. Baldwin in Elliot's FJora, p, 344. 

 Pcucedanum ternatum. KullaWs Genra. I. p. 182. 

 Salsola salsa. Willd. 

 Statice Limonium. Lin. S. Caroliniana. Waller Flor. 



Car. 118. 

 Linum Virginicum. Lin. 



HEXANDRIA. 



Tillandsia ^ Bartra?ni^ foliis ensiformibus attcnuatis gla- 

 bris, panicula multillora ; doribas aiternis distinctis. T. 

 lingulala or Wild Pine. Bartram's St, p. 61. 



T, polystachya. Muklenberg'^s Catal. 



Observations. — Leaves all radical, two or three feet 

 long, attenuated, having broad sheathing bases, crowded 

 together so as to form a vase for retaining water. Panicle 

 naked, very large, formed of alternate branches, incum- 

 bent on each other, including the scape, commonly about 

 three feet high. The flowers are distinct and alternate, 

 each subtended by an ovate obvallate bracte. (Flower not 

 seen.) 



Mr. Ware plucked one specimen from the trunk of a live 

 oak, which he supposed to weigh about fifteen pounds. 

 T. tenuifolia, Swartz. Fl. Ind. ace. 1. p. 592. 

 T. monostachya. Bartram's H. p. 61. 



Observations. — Leaves subulate, erect, and about the 

 height of the flower stem, covered asinU. Usneoides with 

 hoary surparaceous scales, scape covered with sheathing 

 bractes, flowers imbricated into a single, linear oblong 



