298 Catalogue of Plants grorcing in East Florida. 



length of the petiole. The flowers are very small. The 

 callx formed of consimilar ablong-linear segments. Fih- 

 form segments of the crown, (or lepanlhium) kv^^ and 

 shorter than tKe calix. Berries about the size of peas, 



purple. 



Oplotheca Floridana, KuttaWs Genera 2. p. 79. 



Pistia spathulata. M'ch. 



Sida rhombifolia. Wild, 



Hibiscps ^pentaspermus, H. Virginicus. Mich. 2- p. 46, 



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Observatioxs — Leaves partly hastate, the lower ones 

 subocssile. Flowers small, red, with a yellow base, partly 

 disposed in irregular few-flowered racemes- Exterior ca- 

 lix, as usual multifid and filiform* Capsule hirsute, de- 

 pressed, pentangular, five-celled, indivisible, each cell one- 

 seeded. This species is nearly allied to nrena. Hah. from 

 Cape Henlopen to East Florida. 



DIADELPHIA. 



Petalostemon corymbosum Mich. 



Petalostemon ^roseian^ glabrum, foliolis linearibus, brac- 

 teis subulatis brevissimis persistentibus ; calycibus striatis 

 glabris. 



Observations. — A species possessing very much the 

 habit of p. violaceum, but with the calix perfectly smooth, 

 and the petals of a rose colour. 



Polygala pubescens. MiltcdPs Genera 2. p. 87. 



P. lutea W 



Wild. 3. p. 912. 



Lathy rus palustris. Wild 

 Psoralea. 



Lupinus diffusus. NuttalPs Get 

 Hedysarum paniculatum- Wild 



^schynomene viscidula. Mich. 3. p. 74. 



Sesbania platycarpa. Persooru Syn. 2. p. 316. 



S. Macrocarpa. NutlalPs Gen. 2. p, ]]4. 



Glycine erecta. NutialPs Gen. 2. p. 114. 



G. caribaea. Wild. Jacauin. Tc, ran 1. t 146. G» re- 



Nutt 



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Indigofera caroliniana. Walter. Mich. 2. p. 6^. 



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