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long, margins and nerves bristled ; peduncles long, (5 — 6 inches) 

 hairy; calyx usually double, the interior 5 parted, divisions acu- 

 minate, margins and nerves furnished with acute bristles or seta; 

 exterior calyx 3 leaved ; leaves lanceolate (sometimes nearly linear) 

 terminated at the points and clothed on the margins with bristles; 

 (sometimes the exterior calyx is wanting,) petals 5, obtuse, fringed 

 or laciniate on the exterior margins, dark purple, large. 



Some specimens of this plant which I sent to Mr. Nuttall were 

 destitute of the outer calyx, from which circumstance he considered 

 it a Nuttallia, and pronounced it to be new. It is probably the con- 

 necting link between the genus Malva, and the genus Nuttallia. 



Grows in pine woods in Florida, and the southern parts of Georgia. 



Flowers in May. 



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II. Localities of Plants. 



1. Taxus ..... (Yew tree.) 



A tree from 20 to 40 feet high, and from 6 to 12 inches in diam- 

 eter. It grows plentifully, on calcareous knolls, at and near the little 

 town of Aspalaga, on the Appalachicola river. Flowers in April. 

 It was with no little surprise that I met with this tree in this climate. 

 I am uncertain as to its species, but think that it is identical with the 

 Taxus baccata of Europe. 



2. Kalmia cuneata, Mich. 



Found in bloom, in May or June 1832, on the margin of a sphag- 

 nous morass, near Newbern, N. C. by Dr. Loomis. Flowers white. 

 Specimens were sent to Mr. Nuttall, who supposes that this is the 

 first time the plant has been found in flower since it was discovered 

 and described by Michaux. 





Magnolia grandifl 





I know not how it happened that Michaux (Arb. For.) should have 



gned the JYeuse 



this tree. I have not met with it, nor heard of it on that river. The 

 Magnolia tripetala, however, which he mentions as its usual con- 

 comitant, grows on that river, in the neighborhood of Newbern. 

 The true northern limit of this splendid tree is probably where Will- 

 iam Bartram (Travels, p. 470) has placed it, to wit, on the little 

 stream at or near the boundary line between North and South Car- 

 olina. On an estate near Wilmington, N. C. there is a large tree 

 which is said to have been planted there by the proprietor some fifty 

 years ago. In a swamp near this place, as Dr. McKee informs me, 



